Roman wrote: > > Stewart wrote: > >> I'm no military historian > > Obviously not.
There's a lot of that going around it seems. >> but really, did the Russian accomplishment consist >> of anything besides simply absorbing the German assault >> (astounding as that may be)? > > A minor thing indeed, at the cost 20,000,000.00 lives on the Russian side > alone. And let's not forget that many of those 20M were killed by their Russian commanders as they tried to retreat. Most notably at the battle of Stalingrad. Craig To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
