Comments by "" (@MrDaiseymay) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries"
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NOT A BAD ANALOGY, BUT DO WATCH ''37 DAYS'', A BRILLIANT MINUTE BY MINUTE ACCOUNT OF WHAT LED UP TO WW1. A WONDERFUL BBC TV DOCUDRAMA IN 3 ONE HOUR PARTS. NOW ON DVD. ORIGINAL UNSEEN DOCUMENTS AND PERSONAL LETTERS, BY AND FROM ALL THOSE DECISION MAKER'S INVOLVED, FROM THE KAISER AND HIS WAR MAD GENERALS, TO BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, VISCOUNT EDWARD GREY, CHURCHILL GEORGE THE 5TH AND SO ON. ALL BERILLIANTLY PLAYED OUT BY GREAT ACTORS, BRITISH AND GERMAN. YOU WILL SEE THAT THE WAR ALMOST NEVER HAPPEND, AS IT SEE--SAWS BACK AND FORTH , WITH BRITAIN TRYING DESPERATELY ,NOT TO GET INVOLVED, UNTIL THE VERY LAST MINUTE. LOOKING BACK, AND AT WHAT THE GERMANS DID, AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR BRITAIN, WE REALLY HAD NO CHOICE.
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@rnstoo1 CORRECT !! THE ATA , WAS FORMED IN 1940. BUT PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WARTIME WORK, BEGAN IN WW1, WITH THE SAME ANXIETIES OVER THE MEN RETURNING FROM WAR , TO FIND THAT THE WOMEN HAD KEPT THE JOBS, A REAL THREAT, SEEING AS THE WOMEN WERE PAID A MUCH LOWER RATE THAN THE MEN, AN INSENTIVE FOR THE EMPLOYER'S ,NOT TO LET THE WOMEN GO. ANYWAY, UNEMPLOYMENT BECAME HUGE ANYWAY, ONCE THE NEED FOR ARMAMENTS ETC ETC , HAD FALLEN MASSIVELY AT WARS END.
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@rogerusa9696 AND, according to several gatherings over the years, of Military Historians, of ALL countries ,during WW2, allied and foe, concluded; Had Britain been invaded and lost, the Nazis would have won the war. The reasons are complex, and need seeking out, if there is doubt; BUT, just one remark, by former Soviet Union boss , Nikita Kruschev, underlines Britains Importance; In one of Kruschevs rants, at the UN, in the 60's, about Western beligerence, he warned'' On the first day, of WW3, that unsinkable Aircraft Carrier'' ( Britain), will be sunk'' ! This was a back-handed compliment, to the fact, that Britain had not only been a massive holding place, and Airstrip for US planes, AND, the jumping off point for the attack on Fortress Europe, without it, we could not have helped the Russians, ie no second front, or massive supply lines, WE ALL, would have been slaves.
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There's one important fact, that often get's overlooked; In the late 1930's, Rolls Royce applied for financial help, from the government, to continue developing their new ''Merlin'' Aero engine. They turned Rolls down, stating that the alloted finances for that year, had already been spent. So RR dug deep into their own coffer's, and found enough to continue----creating the War winning engine, that had no equal. Think of the planes, that became great, as a result of that decision , by RR. DID IT WIN THE WAR?----IT WAS CERTAINLY A MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR. BUT THANK CHRIST MITCHELL WAS TALKED OUT OF CALLING THE SPITFIRE ''THE SHREW''.
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@home2039 TRUE, despite the well planned national food rationing scheme, and a monumental effort by our farming community, and 'Land Army Girls', our probability of loosing the War, through starvation, was high. Churchill wrote, in his post War Memoirs, that the only issue that scared him, was the U Boat menace. By 1943, the U Boat Fear , with great help from our US cousins, WE turned that huge danger around. BUT, WE won't forget.
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