Cracking the uncrackable Enigma machine was pretty important to the Allied war effort by any reckoning. Of course the journalist doesn't mention that in the article, so I don't know if that was on Macintyre's list of reasons which could mean he was right for the wrong reasons... but still it is a fair claim by him.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
The myth of Polish cavalry charging tanks
- 06/04/2011 09:31:09 AM
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I find this slightly sad.
- 06/04/2011 10:23:08 AM
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Yeah, I know it's BS, but it's one of my favorrite weapons to use against Poles who harass me
- 06/04/2011 02:04:06 PM
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are you often harrassed by Poles? *NM*
- 06/04/2011 02:14:18 PM
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Many people don't appreciate what Germany has suffered at the hands of Poland.
- 06/04/2011 03:00:56 PM
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- 06/04/2011 03:00:56 PM
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yes but I still wonder about the modering gangs of Poles who are harrassing people
- 06/04/2011 04:51:58 PM
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- 06/04/2011 04:51:58 PM
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I am!
- 06/04/2011 07:19:16 PM
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There is something scewy going on with my PC and it keeps reloading pages
- 06/04/2011 08:46:08 PM
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"A decisive role"? What is Ben Macintyre smoking? And there's something wrong with the picture.
- 06/04/2011 03:01:00 PM
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He makes a fair point
- 06/04/2011 03:46:14 PM
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In all fairness, no he doesn't.
- 06/04/2011 07:02:56 PM
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I don't agree - you are relying on speculation
- 06/04/2011 07:19:19 PM
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No, YOU are relying on speculation
- 06/04/2011 11:13:10 PM
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I think you are a bit old to get away with the "No you are" line of argument
- 07/04/2011 11:16:50 AM
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- 07/04/2011 11:16:50 AM
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Churchill saying "we won the war" is already a fantasy world.
- 07/04/2011 03:35:14 PM
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You think the allies lost? Erm... okay....
- 07/04/2011 04:41:49 PM
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I didn't say the Allies lost. I said the UK didn't really "win".
- 07/04/2011 05:31:10 PM
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You said Churchill was living in a fantasy land for saying we won, I believe?
- 08/04/2011 10:56:51 AM
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they still charged on a machine gun wielding infantry battalion ...
- 07/04/2011 02:06:02 AM
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They may have had better luck against the tanks
- 07/04/2011 03:38:40 AM
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Actually, no. The PzKpfw I didn't have a cannon, but rather a machine gun on the turret.
- 07/04/2011 04:58:20 AM
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My 8th grade history teacher was Polish and she embellished the myth.
- 07/04/2011 05:43:10 PM
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