Sieges: Stalingrad
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HemlockGrey
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Sieges: Stalingrad
Got this nifty little book from one of the editors of the 'Sieges' series. Good, casual read. Anyone know it?
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StarshipTitanic
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No, tell me more about this series...
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Sea Skimmer
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No, it's incorrect to call the battle a siege anyway, the book is clearly crap!
A besieged city is not one that gets hundreds f thousands of reinforcements and steady resupply. Hell the Russians had a bridge across the Volga during the early stages, until it was ordered to be blown up.
A besieged city is not one that gets hundreds f thousands of reinforcements and steady resupply. Hell the Russians had a bridge across the Volga during the early stages, until it was ordered to be blown up.
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StarshipTitanic
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A siege doesn't have to be an utterly complete encirclement of a city, fort, etc.Sea Skimmer wrote:No, it's incorrect to call the battle a siege anyway, the book is clearly crap!
A besieged city is not one that gets hundreds f thousands of reinforcements and steady resupply. Hell the Russians had a bridge across the Volga during the early stages, until it was ordered to be blown up.
"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me...God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
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HemlockGrey
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I think it mentions that it wasn't really a 'siege', but rather a long bloody, stalemated struggle for control of a city.
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HemlockGrey
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There's a few other books, five or six, but the only two I can remember off the top of my head are 'Constantinople' and 'Alamo'
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Sea Skimmer
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StarshipTitanic wrote:
A siege doesn't have to be an utterly complete encirclement of a city, fort, etc.
No it doesn’t. However when the other side has many miles of river to resupply across and is often growing in strength as a result of those efforts it's not a siege.
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HemlockGrey
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Whatever. It's just a nitpick based on the name of the series.
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
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"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.