James Holland
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James Holland is an English popular historian, author and broadcaster who writes about the Second World War.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 27 June 1970, Salisbury, Wiltshire (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: B.A. in history, St Chad's College, Durham, 1992 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Fortress Malta (2003); Normandy '44 (2019); Brothers in Arms (2021) (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Podcast: We Have Ways of Making You Talk (opens wehaveways.com)
“Between The Lines - Ep 15”
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Podcast: We Have Ways of Making You Talk (opens wehaveways.com)
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27 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A large army is inherently impractical and inefficient: every extra soldier is another mouth to feed and one fewer worker making the tanks and shells. (opens korrents.com)
“Whereas, there’s also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient, because the larger the army, the more people you’ve got to feed, the more barracks you’ve got to…”
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On the scale of Barbarossa the operational level of war decides everything: it does not matter how good your commanders at the front are if the backup is not there. (opens korrents.com)
“So when you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you’re dealing with an operation on such a vast scale, that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances…”
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The phrase Nazi war machine is a misnomer: only the spearhead of the German army was mechanised and industrialised, and the rest of it was nothing of the kind. (opens korrents.com)
“So people always talk about the Nazi war machine. In a way, it’s a kind of misnomer, because you’re sort of suggesting that it’s highly mechanized and industrialized, and all the rest of it. And nothing could be…”
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A large army is inherently impractical and inefficient: every extra soldier is another mouth to feed and one fewer worker making the tanks and shells. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (opens rcmnd.app)
“Yes, it’s just called KL. It’s about the whole concentration camp system, because K is Konzentration, in German. Lager is a camp. It’s an exhaustive book, and I am full of admiration for him for writing it”
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (opens rcmnd.app)