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To know what the Royal Navy did you should read "Engage the Enemy more closely"
It tells the tale of every RN ship from Destroyer upwards that was involved in anything. And all the feck-ups by the Admiralty, Churchill and the Admirals. True good read if you are interested in that period.
Apparently "Engage the enemy more closely" was the last signal ordered by Nelson at Trafalgar before he died. And it was the first one sent by Churchill at the beginning of WW2 when he was 1st Sea Lord. Dunno the proof of that but I read it somewhere that sounded plausible, and apparently that is why the book is so named.
A good read. (And it covers the sinking of the french fleet at Oran!)
Japan invaded China via Manchuria in 1931 chasing raw materials for its growing industries. By 1937 Japan controlled large sections of China, and accusations of war crimes against the Chinese became commonplace.
After Germany surrendered in 1945 Stalin invaded Manchuria and sent the Japanese packing.
Little is known about the tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers taken prisoner by the Russians because nothing was ever heard about them afterwards except for unproven rumours about them being used as forced labour rebuilding areas destroyed n the war. None of them were ever returned to Japan. I head about this when I was working in Kazakhstan.
Worth a read it offers a balance , to a complex clever man :
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/churchill-101/
I think he's a very nice little dog, I had no idea about all this other stuff
Yes its a right winger ,however it does offer another view other than the attacks that are levied from the left .
I don't agree with all its content , but it does try and explains what happens , when and why ,we may not agree , however it is good to view other comment.