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• ARNOLD commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  Err, well, actually I did. Care to explain just why it was... “Too incoherent” It does seem to make sense even on second reading. Your own post seems to me to be a bit hasty ...and ““too incoherent” But maybe I'm missing something here. Of course as Mods you aren’t required to explain but an explanation might be useful. You did read my post didn’t you? I admit that the inserted quotation was a bit text dense but it was useful in context of the thread. So .. “Too incoherent” ?...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  Then I strongly suggest you consider a few points when commenting: Use complete sentences. Avoid ellipses. Words do not need to arbitrarily be in all caps. Avoid excessive quoting (of any sort). Focus on a single point. If it's more than a hundred words or so, consider why you are spending so much effort on a comment, and not making your own blog post somewhere. This applies to everyone, not just you....
• 4861brown commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  So where were the British tanks? I can't say its true but I read that a American Airborne officer was sent down the still open road to find them. It was said the tanks commander was having tea at a roadside cafe. Reportedly he was not happy at being told to get a move on by a America junior officer and did not. Its said the road was one tank wide and the mud was too bad to go into....
• paws4thot commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  105 - Thank you for that. That is all I have to say. 107 and #109 - FYI, I did read, and enjoy reading, every word of #105. 110 - I don't know how true or otherwise the bits about the USian officer and the "stopping for tea" are, but it's entirely true that that the British armour was forced to advance in single column, and obviously a breakdown derailed the entire advance until it could be cleared....
• guthrie commented on The last refuge of scoundrels
  Yesterday, I found an interesting book, called "Rommel's war in Africa" by a German called Wolf Heckmann. Oddly enough he has many unfavourable things to say about Rommel and his mistakes in north Africa. So much so that Sir John Hackett in the introduction to the English translation suggests that Heckmann is a bit too critical and the truth about Rommel's capabilities lies somewhere between the extremes. I'm only at the first siege of Tobruk, and it is clear that Rommel ordered his soldiers forwards without any clear idea of what was facing him, basically gambling with their lives, and...