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I am watching Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War and I hadn’t realized that the French-Vietnamese War was just as gruesome before the American presence. The mass casualties, napalm and terrible actions made the French people back home sickened, even to the point of throwing rocks at soldiers returning home.

The Vietnam War is an embarrassment for the American people; do French people look back at the War with shame and embarrassment as well?

Like the title says, I was out on a hike and found the aluminum handle from a knife used in US Army mess kits. My research online tells me that it was produced by the company L.F.&C. and videos online show it being found in 1960's era kits, but the stamp on the back under LF&C says 1917. Now the Landers, Frary and Clark company was not founded in 1917 so thats not it.

I want know more about the company that made it and if the knife is truly from 1917, or if that means something else. Thanks!!

(also this is my first time posting here so if this breaks any rules I'm sorry.)

Thank you for taking your time to answer!

As the title says would the have been faster. Planes such as the he 112 or the bf 109-e1 or the early British spitfires or any of the American planes used in the pacific or Europe.

As the title says, I'm looking for some good books or other sources about the formation and early history of the Catholic Church. In short, I would like to read about the Church's activity in the first millennium, when they first established themselves and converted most of Europe. Sources about the early saints would be interesting as well, both the apocryphal and realistic events. Thank you in advance.

Thanks!

Right now I'm reading. "A history of thought and invention from fire to freud" by peter singer.

Poetry and historical accounts from China in the 1st Millenium CE include a lot of references to wine. Is this the grape wine we drink today or some other kind of alcoholic beverage?

I'm looking for US army reports from the liberation of Upper Austria in May 1945, especially the district of Schärding (Schaerding, Scharding). Where would I find such reports?

According to a local historian's report Captain John Dry, a lawyer from St. Louis, Missouri, was chief of military government in Schärding after the liberation.

I think it was General Patton's 4th army that liberated Upper Austria.

Caligula is often painted as a raving lunatic by first-hand accounts. Whether everything said about him is totally accurate is up for debate.

In Henry Grady Weaver’s novel ‘The Mainspring of Human Progress,’ he hints at Caligula’s reign as not as bad for the people as some highly-regarded Emperors.

The following excerpt outlines this-

“Caligula, for instance, merely wasted goods in riotous extravagance and tortured just a few hundred of his subjects for his personal enjoyment. The majority of people always get along comparatively well under a ruler like Caligula. It was the sober, ascetic, industrious Augustus Caesar, who toiling for the welfare of his empire and its people, who began the destruction of Rome and laid the foundation for the misery and human degradation which Europeans suffered for centuries thereafter. He launched a planned economy which was to serve as the basis of the Roman world peace. The Roman legions gave it to all the people of the then-known world- as fast as they could be conquered. From Africa and Asia and England that peace extended, and it was designed to last forever. The hair-splitting economic regulations were perfected by Diocletician, whose stern directives were so efficiently administered that farmers could no longer farm; and many of the businessmen, faced with starvation, committed suicide in preference to being executed for black marketing. There was no work for the workingman, so the beneficent government stepped in and, by taxing the rich, managed for a while to provide the populace with bread and circus tickets. But that was no solution. The improvement was short lived. Money can’t buy good unless the goods are produced. The mounting taxes put more and more people out of business. An increasing amount of workers were forced onto tax-supported relief until there was not enough productive energy at work to pay the tax bills. The great Roman Empire- with its plan for a thousand years of peace and security- collapsed into the Dark Ages. That was the work of the best of emperors.”

From what I am receiving from his words- Although Caligula was a villainous ruler, the infrastructure was stable. Greater leaders that followed him destroyed the Empire. This inspires me to find more information on Caligula’s infrastructure, but most of the information about him comes from his maniacal practices. Do any Roman history buffs have any insight they would be willing to part with?

What circumstances would have to exist for the city to hold out for that long?

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Haven't been able to gather much info so far, but my family just found an old Hull mail newspaper from 1911. Alot of it is missing but the front and back page are almost completely intact. Was wondering if a collector would find any value in this? Has some articles on British Raj in India, the Hull workers strikes and even some small stories from after the King's coronation. Thanks for any info. Photos are available on request.

I've been reading alot about the fall of Nazi Germany and noticed a few interesting things

• Hitler felt like the German race wasn't worthy of victory at the end so ordered every man, woman and child to fight to the death. In a sense he felt his people didn't deserve to live (correct me if I'm wrong here).

• Hitler ordered a scorched earth policy so that German resources wouldn't fall into the hands of his enemies, many field commanders disobeyed this order

• Still to the very end, Hitler was ordering the demotion and sometimes execution of field commanders who surrendered or disobeyed his insane orders

• Some German generals were actually asking Hitler for permission to use chemical weapons, which were deployed in some areas but marked with signs that said "Not to be used without the expresses consent of the Fuhrer" (paraphrasing)

It seems like Hitler cared very little about what happened to his own people after the war, why would he care if his enemies died by chemical weapons? It would have made sense that he was scared about retaliation on the German civilian population if the German military used them, but Hitler seemed to have no pity for the German civilians.

I know Hitler was injured by chemical weapons in WWI, but again, Hitler seemed to show no pity at the end to his own people, it seems weird he would pity enemy soldiers.

So my questions is whether or not there's any record of why Hitler refused to use chemical weapons at the end when it seemed all was lost.

Looks like there was an answer here to a similar question a few years ago, but it was deleted.

To clarify - "Socialized healthcare" meaning the broad spectrum of systems in which healthcare is either guaranteed or free to the citizens of a nation.

I misspoke in saying "the rest of the world" - a more appropriate statement is "out of the first and second world countries."

An article is going around today (this will not be a question about <20year events) about the possible discovery of the Native American city of Etzanoa, and in the article it mentions "recently translated" documents from Coronado.

Is it conceivable that documents as important as those from Coronado have just been translated?

How significant a barrier is document in-translation to historian work, or is finding and translating documents routine?

Does the presence of lack of translated documents result in significant differences in historical narratives or interpretation across different language groups?

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