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<blockquote data-quote="Arrgh! Mark!" data-source="post: 1806861" data-attributes="member: 14559">Ledded: As much as I'm comfortable with - as an avid history buff regardless, I do like to do a bit of reading. To be honest, choosing Tobruk ended up quite difficult - theres bugger all books in my area on the topic and internet searching gives you that feeling of unsatisfied boredom. Eventually I lucked out and managed to find two personal histories of soldiers from the 9th division both with maps and one with dates of german attacks.I can't tell you how useful that one was <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Aaron2: While it is an alt history, don't forget Nanshin or Nanyo - the japanese version of Lebensraum. These philosophical ideas always pressed southwards - possibly the reason why the Japanese never did attack Russia. Asia, historically, is what the Japanese want control of - China, all of those nifty south islands filled with phosphate (Angaur and..er, the other one.) Also, remember that the Japs got shafted after the great war, or at least thought they got shafted. The beginnings of racial japanese superiority came after the russo-japanese war, but when the apparent treaties were ignored by the paternal british the japanese started to get iffy. Remember though, if Russia is attacked Pearl Harbour is not attacked. Fighting commies is a *good thing. Hitler was liked because he was apparently the end to communism.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arrgh! Mark!, post: 1806861, member: 14559"] Ledded: As much as I'm comfortable with - as an avid history buff regardless, I do like to do a bit of reading. To be honest, choosing Tobruk ended up quite difficult - theres bugger all books in my area on the topic and internet searching gives you that feeling of unsatisfied boredom. Eventually I lucked out and managed to find two personal histories of soldiers from the 9th division both with maps and one with dates of german attacks. I can't tell you how useful that one was :D Aaron2: While it is an alt history, don't forget Nanshin or Nanyo - the japanese version of Lebensraum. These philosophical ideas always pressed southwards - possibly the reason why the Japanese never did attack Russia. Asia, historically, is what the Japanese want control of - China, all of those nifty south islands filled with phosphate (Angaur and..er, the other one.) Also, remember that the Japs got shafted after the great war, or at least thought they got shafted. The beginnings of racial japanese superiority came after the russo-japanese war, but when the apparent treaties were ignored by the paternal british the japanese started to get iffy. Remember though, if Russia is attacked Pearl Harbour is not attacked. Fighting commies is a *good thing. Hitler was liked because he was apparently the end to communism. [/QUOTE]

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