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Originally Posted by CroFlames
May I suggest the battle of Stalingrad, or if that’s too narrow maybe Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad?
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Thanks for the ideas, discussions and feedback guys. I do really enjoy doing these, and hope that you guys are getting some enjoyment out of them.
I do like the idea of doing the battle of Stalingrad, there are a lot of aspects to it that could make for a really interesting breakdown.
The political wills behind this in terms of Stalin and Hitler is a paper on itself. It was one of the great tactical blunders of the war and it came down to not only Hitler and his ego, but his own generals being terrified of reporting the truth to him, or trying to talk him out of stupid things.
On top of it, the Battle of Stalingrad does feature one of my top ranked Generals of WW2 in Georgy Zhukov a true Mustang who rose from non commissioned conscript to Marshal who gained command of the Kiev Military district and then became the Soviet Defense Minister. Stubborn and aggressive and uncompromising, he managed to survive his relationship with Stalin and was the man who arrested and condemned Beria. He was the perfect General for the desparate situation that the Soviet Army was in after the German Invasion.
I could almost do a write up on him alone. But I love the idea of doing Stalingrad. I could probably cheat, as I wrote a paper on it in college that I probably still have, but I was a better writer and researcher back then.
You know what. I think for a change of pace, I'm going to do a write up on Zhukov and start adding biographies to this thread. Then at some point I'll do Stalingrad.
I love some of the other ideas here as well, though I don't think I'm all that strong on some of the subjects suggested, but I can take a swing at it.