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But the current book I have bookmarked is The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941 to 1945, by Nathan Greenfield.
Needs to be read by those that think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a mistake.
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But the current book I have bookmarked is The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941 to 1945, by Nathan Greenfield.
Needs to be read by those that think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a mistake.
No.
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate military targets by the rule of the day.
Interesting stats though:
290 Canadians died during the battle, many shot or bayoneted after they surrendered. 267 died after the battle, murdered, worked to death, or starved to death. Out of 1,974 Canadian soldiers landed in Hong Kong, 557 died.
In Dec. 1941 the Japanese held 350,000 Chinese prisoners. After more than three additional years of war and prisoner-taking.....with none released, at the end of the war the Japanese held 56 Chinese prisoners.
At Nanking, in China the Japanese murdered an estimated 300,000 Chinese civilians in a few weeks......after the surrender of the city.
Rape was extensive, as many as 80,000........
Add these crimes to the fact of Japan's refusal to surrender and the suicidal determination of her soldiers.......and that the death toll of the otherwise-necessary invasion of the nation was estimated to be 1 million allied troops (plus untold millions of Japanese)...
When the facts are taken together.....anyone that argues the bombings were not a necessity is, IMHO, a revisionist idiot.
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Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris........the last in a three volume biography of Teddy.
What a wonderful man!
Terrific......
What a wonderful man!
Terrific......
Currently a "Clive Cussler" novel at home on the weekends (can't remember the title),
& a "James Rollins" novel in camp on the weekdays (can't remember that title either).
& a "James Rollins" novel in camp on the weekdays (can't remember that title either).
''Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris........the last in a three volume biography of Teddy.
What a wonderful man!''
Inventor of the Progressive Movement ~ fought for Social Security, health care reform, child labor laws, woman's suffrage, etc. Today he would be called a commie for doing all that.
What a wonderful man!''
Inventor of the Progressive Movement ~ fought for Social Security, health care reform, child labor laws, woman's suffrage, etc. Today he would be called a commie for doing all that.
''Partly true...
He was also a Republican.. :icon_smile:
And a very great man........''
Fully true. Oh by the way, he was also an imperialist ~ that's what makes him a Republican.
He was also a Republican.. :icon_smile:
And a very great man........''
Fully true. Oh by the way, he was also an imperialist ~ that's what makes him a Republican.
Oh absolutely!
We were smarter then..........
I'd quote you his opinion of Islam....but I'm at work, without the book.
''I'd quote you his opinion of Islam...''
He also had a few interesting views on racial supremacy but that's another story ...
He also had a few interesting views on racial supremacy but that's another story ...