The Beginning of a Blog

The purpose of this Blog, is to discuss World War II.  Anything is fair game such as, from the Germans should have done this, or the Allied Forces should have landed there, or the British knew this but did nothing about it.

As an example, I believe it is possible that the British may have tipped off the Germans to Russian intentions in June 1942, and therefore the German operation Case Blue may have been launched partially based on this tip.

Now, I am not suggesting that the tip was supplied directly by the British to the Germans.  No I am thinking if it was supplied by the British, then it would have taken an indirect route to the Germans.  The British are very good at this kind of thing, while still managing to pull the strings from behind the scenes.




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