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A Company of Heroes

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As most people have watched the HBO series Band of Brothers, over the ten episodes you became familiar with the recruits at camp Toccoa, and each one becoming a battle hardened soldier. Marcus Brotherton  has compiled this book which takes the reader through Normandy. A great read from start to Finish.

Lest we forget.

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   War  What is it  good for?  Absolutely nothing.  was the first line of a song, yet our history is full of war and famous battles, whether famous because of being courageous,  of a decision that hinged on a successful campaign and turned it into military blunder.   From archaeology discoveries, we have learned Assryia was the first military state, and through the ages kings have become powerful and created huge empires, and have fallen.    But is there really a need for another webpage about the first and second world wars? And the answer is probably that the internet is already over subscribed with such sites. I never was interested in war as such, except for toy plastic soldiers, and like westerns there was goodies and badies.    After a number of years later I was invited  to Poland, to Krakow, with a few friends whom I work with. Here  we visited Oscar Schindler's factory, and learned how he had sa...