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CHASING RABBITS! Patreon Update 9
🕑 Added 2018-05-04 15:58:01 +0000 UTC Hey Patreons! It's Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!), and time for another update, and I'm going to start off with a quote -"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both." - Native American saying (according to Civilization IV)
I didn't go into it much in the video, and it was only afterwards that I realised just how many rabbits I'm trying to chase at once. Let me list as many topics off the top of my head that I'm working on -
Operation Crusader, the Courland Pocket, the Stalingrad Campaign (several topics in one), Fall Blau (more to come), German atrocities East, Essay Research and Writing Video, another secret video I've been working on (Project G), Soviet commanders including Chuikov and Rokossovsky, tank videos, the Spanish Legion, anti-Suvorov video, Halder, German logistics on the Eastern Front, Lend Lease, Patreon update videos, the elusive Q&A video I hardly ever do but should do, Map-Making videos... I've had numerous requests off people to do topics across the spectrum, and every time I come to do a "small video", I end up making it into something much bigger somehow. And on top of all this, I'm trying to learn German, and possibly Russian too!
It's no wonder I look tired in the video! :D
Those of you patiently waiting for Crusader or Stalingrad or everything else will hopefully now realise why it's taking so long to get things done. And it's my own fault really, I should have just focused on one or two things and only agreed to do something else once I'd finished another project. Trying to do all this at once is why I'm not getting anything done.
So I'm making the decision to cut back now and only chase one rabbit at a time. This way I can concentrate on one thing and get stuff done! Crusader is now my main focus, with only other Crusader-related videos allowed for the Monday videos until Crusader is done. This includes the Map-Making videos, and the tank-videos, since the first ones will be Matilda II, Panzer III and IV, as well as Crusader and the old cruiser tanks - all taking part in Crusader. Patreon updates remain unaffected obviously.
The fact that a Battlestorm video hasn't been out since November 2017, and it's now May, just isn't right. Crusader has to happen, and it has to happen soon. It's the first British victory against the Germans on land in World War 2, so it's not like it's not important!
And as I said in the video, the Crusader units are done. Here's probably the star of the Axis side in Crusader, Mr Crüwell. Do you know much about him? Let me know!
I didn't mention all the books I've collected recently in the video because I actually ordered a lot. Thought this video was going on long enough as it was too! :) Plus some have been on the secret project I can't talk about yet (not even to you, whahahahar!).
As I said in the video - German or Russian? Which should I learn?
And thank you very much all of you for your continuing support. I hope you're all enjoying the videos! And I'll try get back to all your messages as soon as I can.
Lewis
Comments
I think your best bet is Russian. With the recent opening of the archives little work has yet been done translating those to English, as you yourself have mentioned several times.
Norraya
You mentioned you were reading about Kurt the Soldier, have you read the famous diary of Wilhelm Hoffman? It's not too long, only a few pages, but it quite perfectly details the mindset of the German soldiers, going from thinking that the "The company commander says the Russian troops are completely broken, and cannot hold out any longer. To reach the Volga and take Stalingrad is not so difficult for us. The Führer knows where the Russians' weak point is. Victory is not far away" on July 19th to "The Russian radio has announced the defeat of Manstein. Ahead of us is either death or captivity." on December 25th It's really interesting <a href="https://cbweaver.wikispaces.com/file/view/Stalingrad+Primary+Accounts.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://cbweaver.wikispaces.com/file/view/Stalingrad+Primary+Accounts.pdf</a> Oh, and I think you should go for Russian
