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Malcolm Gladwell forgets how the Second World War played out

Malcolm Gladwell forgets how the Second World War played out
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War Stories on SBS World Movies & SBS On Demand

War Stories on SBS World Movies & SBS On Demand
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Bomber Harris wasn t a villainous psychopath He won us the war

Bomber Harris wasn t a villainous psychopath. He won us the war Those who served deserve to have their sacrifice honoured - not recontextualised by people seeking to sully Britain’s past 19 April 2021 • 7:00pm Picture the scene in August 1941. Soviet forces are reeling. America is still refusing to enter the war. More than a year after Dunkirk, British land forces have not had an opportunity to regain a foothold on the Continent. A British Strategic Review published that month was clear about the best way forward: “Bombing on a vast scale is the weapon upon which we principally depend for the destruction of German economic life and morale.” At that stage, the alternative was a deal of some kind with Hitler.

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Air marshal that bombed Dresden was a psychopath but we shouldn t tear down his statue, says Malcolm Gladwell

Air marshal that bombed Dresden was a psychopath but we shouldn t tear down his statue, says Malcolm Gladwell Campaigners called for removal of Sir Arthur Harris s statue, but the author said they are great opportunities to teach people history Sir Arthur Harris statue, The Strand, London Sir Arthur Bomber Harris was a “psychopath” but his statue should not be torn down, the author Malcolm Gladwell has said. The air chief marshal who led the RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War was a controversial figure after leading the heavy bombing of Dresden in February 1945 which is thought to have claimed at least 25,000 civilian lives.

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Shattering accounts of the Great War, from those left to grieve

by David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe (Whitefox £100, 2,288 pp) We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying,’ wrote Private Pearson of the Leeds Pals, a World War I battalion recruited from the Yorkshire city. He was referring to the horrors of July 1, 1916, the first day on the Somme. ‘For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first,’ recalled Private Slater from another ‘Pals’ battalion, the 2nd Bradford. ‘We strolled along as though walking in a park. ‘Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways as they were hit.’

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