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Bookmark or Share- Which WW2 theater was worse? : r/history - RedditThe Pacific was more brutal than the western front, as was the war in India. But both pale in comparison to the Eastern front. The eastern front WAS the Second World War. It was a colossal conflict between two opposing world views and the breast mobilisation of men in history. No front , no war, before or since, can compare to it in scale .
- What were the casualties on the western front from 1944-1945?Germans on the Eastern front could move around more to avoid those situations, but on the Western front moving anything on the road attracted fighter bombers. Most famously, the Germans lost around 10,000 dead in the final stages of the Falaise Pocket.
- Movies like All quiet on the Western Front? : r/MovieSuggestions - RedditWestfront 1918 (1930, basically the actually German version of All Quiet of the Western Front.) Paths of Glory (Kubrick’s great anti-war film. This one gets enough details right that I picked up the recommendation from a History professor who specializes in French history at MIT.)
- Why was the Eastern front so different to the Western front during ...The Western Front was relatively short at about 700 kilometres (435 mi). "The front in the east was much longer than that in the west. The theater of war was roughly delimited by the Baltic Sea in the west and Minsk in the east, and Saint Petersburg in the north and the Black Sea in the south, a distance of more than 1,600 kilometres (990 mi).
- WWII equivalent of All Quiet on the Western Front?Since you liked all Quiet on the Western Front, I suggest you read EM Remarque's WW2 novel, a Time to Live (sometimes translated Love) and a Time to Die. Nicholas Monsarrat: the Cruel Sea is very good, about the Atlantic convoys, though the main character is a Lieutenant so I don't know if that's ordinary enough for you.
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