[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, Situation 4 June, and Operations Since 21 May
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Caipirabob]

These are wonderful threads.

BUMP!

[C19fan]

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[CougarGA7]

[iowamark]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1283476/Winston-Churchill-memorabilia-sells-nearly-600-000-auction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
“”Winston Churchill memorabilia sells for nearly £600,000 at auction...””

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5319588&sid=d8851fc3-addf-4615-8b55-b8e9eee4df38
“”CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed to Eliot Crawshay-Williams, 10 Downing St., 28 June 1940, one page, 8vo; with a letter to Churchill by Crawshay Williams, 27 June 1940.

‘I AM ASHAMED OF YOU FOR WRITING SUCH A LETTER’ — A RIPOSTE TO DEFEATISM. A former assistant private secretary to Churchill, Crawshay-Williams had written a letter cravenly pleading with the prime minister to make terms with Hitler — ‘I’m all for winning this war if it can be done ... But it does seem to me, and, I know, to others, that “if and when” an informed view of the situation shows that we’ve really not got a practical chance of actual ultimate victory, no question of prestige should stand in the way of our using our nuisance value while we have one to get the best peace terms possible. Otherwise, after losing many lives and much money, we shall merely find ourselves in the position of France — or worse. I hope this doesn’t sound defeatist; I’m not that. Only realist’.

Churchill’s response is brief and brutal: ‘I am ashamed of you for writing such a letter. I return it to you — to burn & forget’.””