A Few things: 1. How does acknowledging a group of soldiers for their combat ability "glorify" them. 2. Is Mr. Passehl insuinuating that everyone who lives...
1. Claiming a false (not acknowledging a true) combat ability for a politicised soldiery (designated elite for political and racial reasons) is wrong;...
... DEar Friends, The invitation to join an "ss" discussion group has truly been Misunderstanding! This misunderstanding arises from many people's apparent...
What does the Waffen SS have to do wsith ancient tactics............... Marc Adkins ... From: thresh1642 To: AncientTactics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
... tactics............... ... Dear friends, first, let me apologize to all group members for not having been around the last couple of days to take care of...
... Please use personal emails or other ... I regret my message being posted to ancient Warfare group. i thought it was for world war II of which i am a...
... Ancient Greeks in particular refrained from killing each other in great numbers for various reasons. An important one being intimidation. Spartans in...
This seems a good time to bring up a relatively new book I just finished called: Greek Fire,Poison Arrows and Scorpion bombs; Biological and Chemical Warfare...
I read a book by a French/German guy that trained as an SS trooper. It is a day to day account over the course of his time in combat, including the Battle of...
Some people feel the same about the people who fought on the side of the South in our own Civil War. It is naive to believe all soldiers are monsters. Even...
I suspect that we have seen the last of TJ O Conchuir. Sir Rob usually doesn't truck with such behavior. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?...
... dear miltos, they are back at it again ===== Stan Leverlock __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building...
Off Topic: I believe you might be talking about Guy Sajers book. Either his or Johann Voss book about serving in the SS are IMO excellent reads. On topic:...
Hi Everyone. I'm new to this group. I find it very disapointing that after joinging two new ancient discussion groups that I have to deal with Neonazis...
Hi Todd, Try 'Byzantium and Its Army 284 - 1081' by Warren Treadgold. My copy is softback and published by the Stanford University Press, 1995. ISBN ...
... Dear JeffI. I agree completely with you! Let the NeoNAzi's go to their group site and discuss their idelogoy with themselves! But please do something about...
Hi Stan. I can't remember any books that deal specifically with this issue. Articals do turn up occasionally in the varius journals though. The ancient...
Sorry if this duplicates but I tried to answer /ask this before and it dissapeard. Didn't the term "tyrant" come from the Greeks where it was used to refer to...
- ... Dear Mr. Dowd, you are right! what we would call today a "dictator" The Greeks called them "tyrant". I remember either an Athenian or Theban tyrant...
a chairde, were the romans indeed very hostile to the Etruscans? I know they used them as a buffer between Italy and the Gauls. what do you think of the novel...
... and it dissapeard. ... refer to a leader appointed for a limited time to deal with a specific problem (and given quite a bit of power and lattituted in his...
Miltos makes a good point. Certainly the Athenian and other democratic traditions were more hostile to tyrants (especially their own) than many another state....
I must strongly disagree. Unless the intent of the writer is to offend I believe all topics should be allowed. Personally I hate it when one side gets to...
... decide ... One ... Ryan although your points hold some truth, the fact remains that this is not the New York Times, nor a political debate arena. This is ...
Point taken, however as long as the topic relates to Ancient Tactics anything goes. My point was that no one should be able to stop someone from talking about...
... Tactics ... talking ... is ... In a perfect world yes. But in the various lists I have been these touchy subjects always result in flaming. Better stop...
Sir Rob does a pretty good job of shutting down the flaming, besides this crowd is sophisticated enough to know that the guy who resorts to name calling and...
Hi Rayan. If you're still interested in the "Waffen SS" thread drop me a private note. I can give you a few book recomendations, or lend you the books. ...
