This is the episode when Easy has to cross the river and capture people. The first night stuff happens, people get injured, die. HQ is happy and wants another capture. Capt Winters basically tells the company to report to him that they did another capture but found nothing, all the while Easy just stayed in base and did nothing. Is this true? Was it common in other units? What's another company that was like Easy?

How were orders, logistical organization and information relayed between the front lines and the rear as well as the home front?

Were telegraphs still in use at that time or were radios already adopted by the militaries of the Allies? Did foot and horseback messager still play an impactful role?

How were means of communications maintained during static warfare? Was repairing means of communications a serious difficulty or was artillery too ineffective to disrupt lines of communication?

Finally are there any notable battles or outcomes where the disruption of communication played a significant role in the outcome?

Discussion with a friend, can't field results on Google

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I have been reading quite a bit about the Armenian Genocide. A significant part of denier's arguments seem to be based around the idea that (paraphrasing) 'Crimes were committed by all sides' and that thus the term genocide is not appropriate. I'm hoping that I can ask this without ending up in a debate over the term genocide or whether the Armenian Genocide happened. I am not a genocide denier, and I ask these questions out of curiosity about the political and ethnic climate at the time.

What I would like to know more about is if or to what extent there were crimes against Muslim Ottomans in parts of the empire during this time.

I've learned some things here about the doctrine that brought back success, although I don't remember its specific name right now. It really was fascinating.

Now I wonder about how this was implemented and how it worked. Did the hierarchic system have to change for it in the lower or even higher ranks? Were different vehicles and weapons needed?

How could the Nazis have countered this doctrine? Not like in "could they have won?" but more like "How could they do more significant damage?"

Is there something interesting to know about the operations per se? Where did a textbook example of this take place?

I'd love to know anything you want to tell me about it.

Thanks in advance!

So in regards to Rhino Tanks during WWII. Wikipedia writes:

"The invention of a hedge-breaching device is generally credited to Curtis G. Culin, a sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division's 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. However, military historian Max Hastings notes that Culin was inspired by "a Tennessee hillbilly named Roberts"

My Grandfater is the one who invented that, but his first name was Robert, not his last.. He was in-fact a Tennessee hillbilly. How is the best way to go about getting him the recognition he deserves?

I was wondering around on the Telegraph when I saw an article about new data suggesting as many as 20 million Jews died in the Holocaust. This was surprising to me because I always read 6 million in school and online, and this is why my grand mother often told me before she died. So I looked into it briefly at work at I saw other figures ranging from 1.8 million to 2.5 million to the usual 6 to 12 to 20 million. Even for camp deaths like Auschwitz they changed their own numbers on a plaque form several million to just 800,000. I made sure I wasnt accidentally on Neo Nazi or white supremacist websites, so its a little puzzling to me, I know records from WWII from a collapsed country isnt that accurate but 1.8 million to 20 million seems way to broad for Jews alone. I saw mentioned a lot were discrepancies with mass graves on how big they really were to how fast cremating bodies took back in the day compared to a couple hours today to gas chambers and wooden doors making the deaths really slow versus the all metal constructions in US prison. All of those as possible reasons why numbers are so broad.

Did the Americans or Russians mess up in calculating, or were mislead by fabricated Nazi documents?

Im absolutely lost on how many Jews actually died since no one seems to have a definite answer. I always believed my grandmother from when she lived in those days about 6 million, but now im confused how many died. This is rather important as Jew, I cant exactly be proud if I dont even know how many really died.

I'm not talking about songs that have been transfered through the songs being played and taught. Rather pieces of music that have been written down, recorded in some way like sheet music. As a bonus question: Has any of these ancient pieces of music been deciphered successfully and is there modern recordings of it.

I recently blew through Killing the Bismarck and HMS Rodney by Iain Ballantyne based on some comments I saw on this sub. I thought they were fantastic (hopefully they're good historically, let me know if not), and I'm hoping I can get some recommendations for similar books. I'm interested to know if there are any parallel books for the US and Japanese battleships of WW1 and/or 2. Beyond that, submarine warfare also interests me. I checked to AskHistorians book list and I'll be adding Shattered Sword to my list, but I didn't really see anything else in the naval category specifically.

Thanks!

Hi,

I just finished reading Histoire de Florence ("History of Florence") by Yves Renouard (written in 1964) and it has a very interesting part about economics and trade in Europe, about which I have now a few questions:

• Was Florence really the "main" economic center of Europe at this time (say ends of XIV beginning of XV century), as the author explicitly says?

• Florence families were heavily involved in banking and would repeatedly make loans to kings and popes and would apparently quite often led to bankruptcy because of that. Did they have any security about these loans when making them? Were they forced to give them?

• Was there any connection between the fall of Florence under the rule of the Medicis and the rise of merchants in northen Europe (Hanseatic league for example)? Since it happens at similar times (ends of XV century if I'm not mistaken).

• How far did the Florentine trade extend? Did they ever have contact with the Middle East? Asia?

• Bonus question, how do European trade and Asian (Chinese regions) trade compare at the time? In term of volume, liquidities and all that. Was it possible for one to directly affect the other at that time? (For example a commodity completely crashes in Europe and it eventually affects the economy in China).

Furthermore, I'm interested in any book about trade (in Europe and Asia) during this time period you might suggest.

Thanks you for the answers :)

When you think of European kings, you imagine them wearing the finest clothes, ceremonial armor and jewel encrusted crowns.

What did the Caliphs wear? More specifically, the Caliphs of the Ummayyads and Abbasids? I dont think I've ever seen a crown or armor. There's also not a lot of art depicting them.

They were powerful rulers and the successor to Muhammad so you'd figure they would dress lavishly. Am I wrong?

Yes, i know they are a guerilla force but did they have tanks of any kind? I know the NVA did. Did they steal 'merican tanks? Did China/Russia/NVA Supply the guerillas with them?

inspired by the most recent "History of Byzantium" podcast episode which talks about Constantine V's successful attempt to pay soldiers in leather coins.

Did Hitler ever try to force Fascist Italy to relinquish control over South Tyrol, which had/has a sizable German population? Or was he willing to overlook the province considering his alliance with Benito Mussolini?