“Bloody foreigners” takes up some very good points, like:
[ul]
[li]The number of foreigners in British service during WWII
[/li][li]The lack/late acknowledgement of foreigners contribution to GB and the Allies
[/li][li]Churchill promise and the reality of horsetrading when it came to a liberated Poland
[/li][li]Close mindedness on behalf of the RAF
[/li][/ul]
The documentary really opened my eyes when I first saw it years ago.
If you really need an eye opener about the WW2 you should try and find “Behind closed doors” by BBC!
The fact that the Nazi-Russian Non-aggression pact was really a military alliance should startle mos people :w00t:
All too forgotten. Not something they teached in schools in USSR (and probably not in Russia nowdays either). Interesting how Soviet sent supplies to Germany up to the day before Operation Barbarossa started. Also fun to remind our Swedish commies that there is only one party in our parliament that supported both Stalin and Hitler at the same time (not to mention a bunch of other murderous dictators over the years). :roflmao:
Just a recommandation about a book useful for a better understanding how Russian-German- Allied treated the Polish during WW2 Norman Davies - Rising 44 the battle of Warsaw
A book about Polish RAF pilots Stanley Olson - For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II
The number of foreigners in British service during WWII
The lack/late acknowledgement of foreigners contribution to GB and the Allies
Churchill promise and the reality of horsetrading when it came to a liberated Poland
Close mindedness on behalf of the RAF
Actually, most of those myths have been largely debunked, but I suppose they drift on in some quarters.
