One source says Hitler had wanted to invade as early as 1924, even a conservative estimate has to be at least 5 or 6 years of pre-planning. And, though initial successful winter, bad roads (or no roads,) break-down of equipment are some of the major excuses as to why the invasion ultimately failed. Yet, I can find no book on the subject of German planning, solutions to.

It seems they just took the same attitude as if they were invading France w/no added precautions to the wilderness of Russia

thank God they didn't and we still had the fuel to launch our fleet against the Japanese war machine.

Has a Shogun ever denied someone some request that an Emperor granted? Would the Shogun be forced to agree with the Emperor? Has someone important (like a Shogun) ever insulted an Emperor? What was the result?

How could the Germans inflict such a crushing defeat on Rome?

I want to know some more about how Anatolia- a Greek-speaking Christian region inhabited by people as diverse as the Kurds, Armenians, and Georgians- became a well-known Muslim country with a distinctive and diverse culture in its own right. I understand some of it must have come down to conforming to norms and taxes placed on non-Muslims, but it still astonishes me.

I'm not the best at Chinese history post Qing Dynasty, but I do know China was riddled with civil war from 1912 when the Republic of China was founded all the way until the rise of Mao and a Communist China. But to my knowledge, between 1912 and 1931 when the Japanese first attacked, the Republic wasn't overthrown and replaced with a new Republic.

Mind you, this was a country that was significantly poorer than Portugal not too many decades ago. It is now the country with the 7th highest median wage in the world.

How was this even possible - what makes South Korea so special for it outpace any other country in the world during this time frame? Even the Miracle at the Rhine was nothing, in its scale, compared to this.

Even today, South Korea has growth rates not unlike those of developing countries, even though it has a very developed economy.

How?

I don't know if i'm missing something obvious, But their performance and design strikes me as the kind of plane that would be good at shooting down bombers. Everything i see lists them as fighter-bombers though.

They even got the positioning of them all correct!

What are your thoughts

Before water was safe and folks drank booze for hydration was there a higher percentage of the population dependent on alcohol? Other than just for hydration...

I know it's an oddly specific question but I can't seem to find anything online that helps.

Every time I see a map of the bubonic plague, there is a large space of modern day Poland and Belarus that aren't highlighted. Did this mean the plague avoided these locales completely, and if so, did the people living here have specific bodily resistances against the plague?

Dragons feature prominently in medieval art. Did people believe they were depictions of real creatures or were they interpreted as allegories? Did scholars believe in their existence or was there a difference between the beliefs of ordinary people and educated people? Edit: I’m thinking about European medieval people here.

I am aware that Russia didn't have Siberia when Columbus discovered America, but surely the information about another continent could have reached someone in Russia or China.

The more I learn about bayonet charges in history, the more I hear that deaths due to bayonet combat were rare and bayonet charges usually resulted in either the defenders retreating or the chargers being massacred.

Was bayonet fighting ever really a thing or was it just something that has been romanticized?