agedgruel wrote: Hyperbole much?
What war isn't?
Not many wars kill millions of people.
agedgruel wrote: Hyperbole much?
What war isn't?
ScifiterX wrote: I can think of a few
Crusades
The Hundred Years War
The Thirty Years War
Red Eyebrows Revolt
Three Kingdoms
An Lushan Revolt
Fall of the Yuan Dynasty
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Many of Gengis Khan's Battles
Many of Timur the Lame's battles
Russian Civil War
WWI
WWII
Taiping Rebellion
Conquest of the Americas
Muslim Conquest of India
The Fall of Rome
And those are just the bigger ones (more than 5 million)
Shnicky-Poo wrote:ScifiterX wrote: I can think of a few
Crusades
The Hundred Years War
The Thirty Years War
Red Eyebrows Revolt
Three Kingdoms
An Lushan Revolt
Fall of the Yuan Dynasty
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Many of Gengis Khan's Battles
Many of Timur the Lame's battles
Russian Civil War
WWI
WWII
Taiping Rebellion
Conquest of the Americas
Muslim Conquest of India
The Fall of Rome
And those are just the bigger ones (more than 5 million)
I count two items on that list that included the United States as a participant. Appreciate the non sequitur, tho.
rjprice wrote: Hitler's Great Panzer Heist: Germany's Foreign Armor in Action, 1939-45
Kind of interesting but pretty general, not much detail.
sturner wrote: Reading Charlaine Harris' series starting with Grave Sight.
Pure recreational caca. Light, fast, and entertaining.
dv wrote:rjprice wrote: Hitler's Great Panzer Heist: Germany's Foreign Armor in Action, 1939-45
Kind of interesting but pretty general, not much detail.
World Of Tanks has this stuff - a lot of the lower-tier german tanks are actually Czech and French. Likewise some of the Soviet tanks are British Lend Lease. (Like the Churchill.)
mmaverick wrote: It starts off great. The first two are some of the best fantasy books I've ever read. I really hope the next one isn't as much of a disappointment as dance was.
mmaverick wrote: I've been reading the gallic wars again. it's pretty interesting, though I imagine it would be laughably inaccurate to someone who was there. :looks at sturner:
sturner wrote:mmaverick wrote: I've been reading the gallic wars again. it's pretty interesting, though I imagine it would be laughably inaccurate to someone who was there. :looks at sturner:
Well, it's heavily self-serving to Julius.
He wasn't that good of a tactician or strategist, but he was a helluva politician. And he had bad breath because of all the garlic he liked to eat.
Ribtor wrote: Read for the umpteenth time The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.
But I always launch into fits of giggles every time Watson is described as "ejaculating". And he does that quite often.
Ribtor wrote: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Shnicky-Poo wrote:Ribtor wrote: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Is that the recent one? Which said Roswell was a Soviet intel op? How are you liking it?