03-06-2003, 11:08 PM
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garden police gone wild?
In article says...
World War II was 1939 - 1945. The United States entered the war late in 1941
after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Battle of Britain had already been fought
and won, by Britain, by the summer of 1941. Hitler had already turned the bulk
of his troops and equipment toward Russia, where he suffered such severe losses
of both men and materials that he might as well have surrendered at that time
(as an aside, this is the same mistake that Napolean made and the same
consequences). The outcome of World War II was already established when the US
entered it; although, US entry greatly expedited the end of the war.
Read the recent Pulitzer Prize winning book by Rick Atkinson, "An Army at
Dawn," the first of a three book trilogy. The other two haven't been
written yet. The book is about the Africa campaign, the first
involvement of the US in WWII in that hemisphere. According to those
accounts, Britain had zero chance of invading Africa by herself let alone
continental Europe. Even the US with Britain learned a lot and lost a
lot of men through their adventures and mis-adventures in Africa. I'm
only halfway through the book but it's very enlightening.
ObGardening: The book tells a tale about a British Duke somewhere in
Africa admonishing a private for digging a foxhole too near a couple 100
year old olive trees claiming he was killing the tree's roots. Shortly
later, German tanks came through the area blowing the olive trees to
smithereens.
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