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Spanish Legion, Tanks, Blau, Books - Patreon Update 8
🕑 Added 2018-04-20 17:06:08 +0000 UTC Hey Patreons! Another update for you!Several things to go over, including Monday's video, which you should be looking forward too. But I'm desperately looking for books on the tanks I mentioned towards the end of the video. Help me if you can!
Link to the David Stahel book I mentioned http://amzn.eu/fe5b095
And here's a unit card I've made for Monday's video -
And no, this is correct. Chuikov started off in 64th Army. Did you know that? I always had the impression that he came from somewhere else - that he was from Siberia or from another part of the front when he crossed the Volga into Stalingrad. But this wasn't the case, he was actually the commander of 64th Army for a time before the fighting in the city of Stalingrad.
Also found a problem with some of the units. If the unit has a name, I can't put the commander's face on the card. For example -
Any suggestions to solve this problem? It's not the end of the world, but I do prefer having the commander's image on the card because I think this brings life to the story. And interestingly, when I've been editing Monday's video, when placing them in the timeline and need to find the unit out of all the images, I've actually been looking for the commander's names, not the unit names. So I've been going - "Where is von Bock's unit? I can't find von Bock... oh there he is!" - which I think is interesting. I think it gives a character to the army or front, and is better than a simple number or name, if that makes sense.
Hope you enjoyed the update. As I say, I'm very grateful for your support, and I think Monday's video at least will show you that we're going in the right direction. Thank you again!
Lewis
Comments
Thanks for the book recommendation! I've added it to a wishlist/shopping list :) Stahel's also got a lecture on YouTube. Not sure if you've seen it <a href="https://youtu.be/KxsdfcgfSS8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/KxsdfcgfSS8</a>
Someone else pointed that out too! I knew I shouldn't have trusted google images!
Richard Stokes
A minor criticism (but important for those who play chess!): I like the line that the Germans expected to play a game of Chess but actually ended up facing a game of Go. However, your chess board image has been unwittingly flipped. On a chessboard the White square on the edge of the back rank must always be to the right!
Richard Stokes
I've just started Stahel's book on Barbarossa. I'm a dual citizen of Australia and the UK, so I'm quite excited that someone from down-under is a leading scholar in this field. I also came across a negative review from Steven D. Mercatante of The Battle for Moscow, one of Stahel's later books. This review can be found online: <a href="http://www.miwsr.com/2016/downloads/2016-024.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.miwsr.com/2016/downloads/2016-024.pdf</a> In turn, this review article triggered a vicious reponse from another author, Robert Kirchubel, who dismissed Mercatante as a 'hobbyist historian'. <a href="https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/discussions/113994/x-post-miwsr-reviews-rutherford-hellbeck-stalingrad-city-defeated" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/discussions/113994/x-post-miwsr-reviews-rutherford-hellbeck-stalingrad-city-defeated</a> Leaving aside this personal attack, I would recommend Mercatante's own book, Why Germany Nearly Won' (2013), if only because it tries to re-build the case that Germany came close to winning WW2.
