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Thread ID: 109827	2010-05-24 11:01:00	The Pacific - your verdict on halfway through !	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

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887837	2010-05-25 22:24:00	Anyway, back to the topic Would you purchase a DVD set of The Pacific Would you watch it again ? Do you get p'd off looking at that Marines face with mud all over it ?	Digby (677)
887838	2010-05-25 23:28:00	No, no, yes Ken :)	kenj (9738)
887839	2010-05-26 00:10:00	No, No, Thats reality. :)	Trev (427)
887840	2010-05-26 00:53:00	Didn't it all start with casting swine before pearl?	R2x1 (4628)
887841	2010-05-26 01:23:00	Anyway, back to the topic Would you purchase a DVD set of The Pacific Would you watch it again ? Do you get p'd off looking at that Marines face with mud all over it ? I would respectfully suggest you should not watch the series if it annoys you so much.	Sweep (90)
887842	2010-05-26 01:40:00	I would respectfully suggest you should not watch the series if it annoys you so much. Don't be so pedantic Sweep. This is a chat forum. We could equally say "Don't read Digby's posts if it annoys you so much" Ken ;)	kenj (9738)
887843	2010-05-26 01:52:00	Don't be so pedantic Sweep. This is a chat forum. We could equally say "Don't read Digby's posts if it annoys you so much" Ken ;) Who said I was annoyed by the posts from Digby?	Sweep (90)
887844	2010-05-26 02:48:00	It doesn't annoy me. I have always liked historical docos, war movies, so I enjoy watching the series, but like many of us here, feel it could have been so much better. I was just following up on the poster who thought the planes that kept flying over were a bit lame, so are the shots of that marine with mud over his face.	Digby (677)
887845	2010-05-26 03:19:00	The outbreak of war in Europe was a direct consequence of lack of resolve by the political leaders of Britain and France, in dealing with Hilter when he first started his expansion in 1936. and continuing to show no resolve until there was no option but to go to war on the enemy's terms. Germany's rearming was in direct contravention of the Treaty of Versailles and the Governments of France and Britain elected to do nothing. Germany was forbidden to have an Air Force but provided Air Power in The Spannish Civil War. The Rhineland was re-occupied, Anschluss occured on 3 March 1938, a defacto annexation of Austria into the third Reich, and 8 days after Britain sent Hitler a Strong "Note of Protest". Chamberlain agreed that The Sudetenland area of the post WW! created Czechoslovakia should be ceded th Germany in 1938( The population was predominently German, and the territory was duly handed over ( Chamberlans famous "Peace in our Time Proclamation). This left Czechoslovakia without any defensible borders. In March 1939, Hitler subsequently Annexed the whole of Czeckoslovakia, dividing the country into a number of German protectorates - Britain and France still did nothing. There can be little doubt that the war in Europe was brought about by the governments of both France and the United Kingdom being determined to avoid war at any cost. Each success gave Hitler an incentive to push a little harder, finally resulting in the declation of war on 3 September 1939. France had relied for its defence on a line of fortifications known as the Maginot Line - they were well prepared and formidable - The German solution was simple, outflank them go round then end and hit the with Blitzkrig tactics. 9 months later the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force were extracted from the beaches of Dunkirk. The seeds of the Second World War in Europe were sewn in the Treaty of Versailles and watered and ferlised by the lack of resolve and moral cowardice of the governments of Britain and France, and the finest of another generation bled to death on the battlefields of Europe. I don't disagree, but to put those criticisms along with all that detail in perspective, the US was standing back and profiting from WW2 when it was obvious to most where Hitler was going. They only entered WW2 after getting attacked, to me that's a lot worse than trying to "avoid" a costly war. From the German point of view generations of Germans were to be punished by the Treaty of Versailles that was going to take till around the mid 1980's to pay, of course they were upset. The seeds of war were indeed sewn with the Treaty of Versailles.	Battleneter2 (9361)
887846	2010-05-26 03:32:00	Do you get p'd off looking at that Marines face with mud all over it ? That must be standard Hollywood for "this guy is the introspective sensitive type". Probably how he survived to write about it. IIRC episode 3 of BOB had lots of shots of Pvt. Albert Blythe looking terrified.	PaulD (232)
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