Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Weekly Prize - Join Any Time - Tip Round 10
The Golden Ticket - MCG and Marvel Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the Gabba, MCG and Marvel.
Grab yourself a copy of "Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone. There's a book, or a 3 DVD Box set, covering 1940-2010. Extremely well done and very informative.
Let me know what you think. I found it fascinating and a somewhat refreshing and balanced view on what actually took place. I was particularly interested in the section on Henry Wallace; had never actually heard much about him prior.Just bought the dvd set. After ordering Amazon screen went to purchase by same buyers - John Pilger doco. Slightly disturbing.
Let me know what you think. I found it fascinating and a somewhat refreshing and balanced view on what actually took place. I was particularly interested in the section on Henry Wallace; had never actually heard much about him prior.
Let me know what you think. I found it fascinating and a somewhat refreshing and balanced view on what actually took place. I was particularly interested in the section on Henry Wallace; had never actually heard much about him prior.
Von Mansteins book is hard to get hold of. Wouldnt mind reading it even if Shirer was very critical of him for rewriting history and covering up his knoweldge of what was going on criminally by the Nazis.Fingered this in my favourite bookshop but never purchased in the end. Supposedly very good. Have you read it?
Agreed on Wallace. He makes references to him all throughout the entire series.Three episodes in (up to the end of WWII). First one pretty standard view, nothing controversial. Second one started to get obviously pro Soviet Union/ anti Britain. Third one lost the plot a bit in terms of bias in the last 10 minutes or so (VERY anti Truman, even to the extent of delving in to him getting mocked as a kid for wearing glasses - what relevance does that have?). Also extremely pro Wallace and FDR. Couple of things were a bit off ie Churchill speaking in a clip when it clearly wasn't Churchill's voice.
Will persevere though as I want to see more re JFK, bay of pigs, Vietnam etc.
Re Wallace, have you read the below? Not a bad read. Author is a bit of a free market sort but it wasn't over the top anywhere near to the extent of the above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgotten_Man:_A_New_History_of_the_Great_Depression
How'd you go with the rest of this series medusala ??Three episodes in (up to the end of WWII). First one pretty standard view, nothing controversial. Second one started to get obviously pro Soviet Union/ anti Britain. Third one lost the plot a bit in terms of bias in the last 10 minutes or so (VERY anti Truman, even to the extent of delving in to him getting mocked as a kid for wearing glasses - what relevance does that have?). Also extremely pro Wallace and FDR. Couple of things were a bit off ie Churchill speaking in a clip when it clearly wasn't Churchill's voice.
Will persevere though as I want to see more re JFK, bay of pigs, Vietnam etc.
Re Wallace, have you read the below? Not a bad read. Author is a bit of a free market sort but it wasn't over the top anywhere near to the extent of the above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgotten_Man:_A_New_History_of_the_Great_Depression
How'd you go with the rest of this series medusala ??
Should we be concerned that he's a certifiable lunatic?Grab yourself a copy of "Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone. There's a book, or a 3 DVD Box set, covering 1940-2010. Extremely well done and very informative.
Should we be concerned that he's a certifiable lunatic?
Should we be concerned that he's a certifiable lunatic?
Currently reading "Crimson Snow" by Jules Stewart about the Afghan war of 1838. God, what a disaster, and I haven't even got to the retreat from Kabul yet !
Been there, done that. I enjoy Flashman, although I find myself reading slowly because i'm constantly having to check the notes in the back.If you want the true story, you need to read the first packet of the Flashman Papers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_(novel)
Been there, done that. I enjoy Flashman, although I find myself reading slowly because i'm constantly having to check the notes in the back.