Boondock Saint posted:

For anyone who is further interested in just how badly the Nazi's mismanaged themselves,

ganglysumbia posted:

Admiral Snackbar posted:

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Barto posted:

Could someone break down for me, especially in terms divisions/production capacity, the contribution of the USSR in World War II? Lately, I've been discussing with some friends about how the U.S.+Britain et al weren't that important to the Western theatre, didn't do all that much of the fighting, never faced the full brunt of the professional German army, and the USSR could have won it on their own (albeit with financial help from the west). Am I close to the mark, or pretty far off?

DarkCrawler posted:

It really is ridiculous how many Emperors were assassinated or murdered.

dokmo posted:

This is a survival plot of the length of the reign of Roman Emperors:

The vertical axis shows the proportion of imperial reigns that lasted longer than the value on the horizontal axis. You can see that the 50% mark (the grey line) shows than half of Roman Emperors reigned four years or less.

The author emphasizes the chaos of the second and third centuries, when 80% of emperors were killed or committed suicide or died under mysterious circumstances:

Farecoal posted:

My brother claims the Civil War was a useless war because slavery would have become economically unviable around 30 years after the 1860s. He told me it would become too expensive to care for the slaves. (He also claims this is why in a libertarian society there wouldn't be slavery) Bullshit? Not bullshit?

HisMajestyBOB posted:

This is from a few pages back, but I have to add another interesting bit to it. After the war, Argentina wanted major territorial gains, if not an outright partitioning of Paraguay. However, President Rutherford B. Hayes, who arbitrated the disputes after the war, sided with Paraguay, and Argentina got much less land than they wanted. In gratitude, the Paraguayan government renamed a department and its capital city after Hayes.

Saint Guinness posted:

These books have revealed that I don't know nearly enough about the War of 1812 as I would like. Can anyone suggest some good reads to help rectify my lack of knowledge in this area?

Grand Prize Winner posted:

So.... how about war industries of the second world war? This thread has enlightened me about the feudal mess that was the Nazi administration, but how did, say, the Italians perform?

Nenonen posted:

Just how was the Crimean War portrayed in the British & French MSM back then? This intrigues me because it was the era of the rise of modern press, but if I think of the Murdoch media of the time I find it hard to see them standing for Turkish Empire, even if the Russian Empire probably wasn't hugely popular either.

folgore posted:

What were the demographics like for the rank and file of the Army of Northern Virginia during the ACW? I assume the leadership were mostly Southern aristocrats, but what about the average infantryman? I'm reading Battle Cry of Freedom and find it remarkable how this army kept its cohesion in the shittiest conditions while the CSA government was having difficulty retaining troop numbers elsewhere. I guess this is also asking the probably complicated question about why so many poor, non-slave holding white men were willing to give up everything for the Southern cause.