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German soldiers were actually quite brutal in their actions on the Eastern Front. Western Allied soldiers did engage in rape and generally unfriendly behavior towards civilians, though no where on the scale of their German opponents or Soviet counterparts. There was widespread rape and abuse...

OK, cool. :wave:

Was that to me?

As long as we agree that the cause of secession was in fact slavery.

It would be more accurate to say the slavery caused secession and secession caused the Civil War.

General Gage fully expected the trial conducted after the Massacre to hand down a guilty verdict. In anticipation of such a result, he planned his appeal, gathering statements from other British soldiers of the abuse they sustained from the population of Boston. The Bostonians hated their...

If not the Seven Years War/French and Indian War then at least the Napoleonic War with the related War of 1812 should qualify as the First World War. After all, they did have more combat in North and South America than the two recognized world wars.

The most common example cited is Guernica, in the Basque region of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Technically, the Italian destruction of the city of Harar in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War preceded Guernica by about a year.

What does a photo of the Condor Legion victory parade (not a new discovery, by the way, we've known of the parade for years at least) have to do German production figures?

I'll second HiredGoon's recommendation. I though Paul Revere's Ride was the better of the two works, but they were both top notch history. The author is not only a good historian but also a good writer.

I don't know, I just couldn't get into him as a writer. It may have been all the hype surrounding him, I guess I'm an elitist at heart. Either that or I'm masochistic, you know, just reading the stuff in size 8 font written by old history professor who purposely try to make their books as dull...

While some of the sailors taken from American merchant ships were deserters from the RN, the Royal Navy was not particularly careful about making sure they grabbed the right people. I believe some of the deserters did have American citizenship. Also, considering just how much overseas commerce...

My recommendations for fairly recent stuff that you should be able to find in your local Barnes and Noble are: Shattered Sword: New look at the Battle of Midway that gives an excellent overview of Japanese carrier doctrine. Any of Anthony Beevor's works, including Stalingrad, Fall of...

Public school? *Laughs* My history education consisted of "a civil war happened, it ended, then nothing happened until the Great Depression." My real history education came from university classes and books. Still waiting to hear about why the founders of the Confederacy decided to lie in the...

There wasn't really a victor in the war; the most important issues simply went back to status quo ante in the treaty that ended the war. Though there is perhaps one somewhat humorous footnote to the end of the war. The war ended without saying anything about freedom of the seas, one of the...

Bah, the official records call it the 'War of the Rebellion' and so it shall always be. You can't fight Federal bureacracy!

The Constitution did mention that fugitive slaves would have to be returned to their owner. The government in the late 18th century then passed a law whereby those slaves did not have the right to habeus corpus and gave very loose guidelines for returning slaves. Some alleged slaves had been...

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. The Federal Reserve has nothing to do with spending; it is the government's bank, the government decides what to spend, the Federal Reserve finds it the best way of financing it. Secondly, the gold standard is infeasible; it played a large role in...

I wouldn't go that far. The ante-bellum federal government was far too decentralized. To give one example, the banking system was absolutely primitive; one European observer compared it to the banking system of 13th century(!) Europe. The Civil War helped push us in the right direction with the...

Since World War II is my topic of choice: "How innocent was the Wehrmacht in the crimes of the Third Reich?" - Popular history claims that most of Germany's war crimes were contained to the SS, but is that accurate? If you want to look at this, I would recommend Omer Bartov's Hitler's Army...