The Second World War: Echoes from the Past, A Conversation with Sir Antony Beevor

[@MaryR-cg7mf]

Thank you so much for hosting this wonderful discussion/lecture. More please! He really is our finest contemporary historian of WWll - and I so enjoy listening to a learned man who does not feel the need to infuse his lecture with his own contemporary political beliefs. In fact, he rightly warns against the practice of drawing parallels between historical events/periods. Wonderful.

[@McIntyreBible]

I would love to sit in Beevor's presence and drink in his wisdom of modern historicity!

[@thevillaaston7811]

You would not be there very long.

[@stevejones2310]

Outstanding historian of our times. Thank you for this analysis.

[@bigbadword]

The ending was a little awkward. I think Sir Antony should have been given a chance to say goodbye in return. He was left sitting there as they thanked him and rolled straight into sponsorships.

[@garymorgan3314]

Amazing man. His remarks in the curreny issue (March 2022)

[@garymorgan3314]

(SORRY) current The Atlantic identifying why Putin is repeating old Russian mistakes in Ukraine explains why the Russians are doing so badly now.

[@McIntyreBible]

50:46, Beevor gives a valid explanation of the question put to him!

[@paigetomkinson1137]

I wish someone would let him know that Americans, as far as I know (and I am one) tend to think the war started Sept. 1, 1939. I've heard him cite Pearl Harbor Day twice on documentaries.

[@currawongee1]

3rd Sept. 1939.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@currawongee1 The third was when England and the Commonwealth came in. It had been going on in Poland for two days already. Meself, I think of it as starting with Japan's invasion of Manchuria.

[@mikehiggins946]

I am an American and I also believe that had Japan not gone to war against the United States, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands in the Pacific on December 7th 1941 the war in Europe that began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939 and progressed to include western Europe and the Soviet Union would still have been called World War 2 or the Second World War because the precedent had been set with World War 1, which was seen as a World War without the Pacific Theatre playing a part. Certainly the war in the Pacific which began on 12/7/41 cinched it as a true "world wide war but the conflict would've still been World War 2 without it.

[@davidanthony4845]

#MFIORE7511 The novel is ' Life and Fate ' by Vasily Grossman.

[@Paul-talk]

Monty's handling of the Bulge was rediculous. Read Ingersoll (Top Secret).

[@thevillaaston7811]

“I find it difficult to refrain from expressing my indignation at Hodges and Ridgeway and my appreciation of Montgomery whenever I talk about St. Vith. It is my firm opinion that if it hadn't been for Montgomery, the First US Army, and especially the troops in the St. Vith salient, would have ended in a debacle that would have gone down in history.” ”I'm sure you remember how First Army HQ fled from Spa leaving food cooking on the stoves, officers' Xmas presents from home on their beds and, worst of all, top secret maps still on the walls... First Army HQ never contacted us with their new location and I had to send an officer to find them. He did and they knew nothing about us...(Montgomery) was at First Army HQ when my officer arrived. A liaison officer from Montgomery arrived at my HQ within 24 hrs. His report to Montgomery is what saved us...” - Major General Robert W. Hasbrouck, commander, 7th Armoured Division. KZbin: 'Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes' 1hr, 4 minutes, 30 seconds onwards. ‘The operations of the American 1st Army had developed into a series of individual holding actions. Montgomery's contribution to restoring the situation was that he turned a series of isolated actions into a coherent battle fought according to a clear and definite plan. It was his refusal to engage in premature and piecemeal counter-attacks which enabled the Americans to gather their reserves and frustrate the German attempts to extend their breakthrough’. Hasso von Manteuffel. Commander, 5th Panzer Army.

[@nickhomyak6128]

Did not Stalin have good reason to be paranoid; and smart enough to play the game at the time of being, without merit, an enemy simply because of historical circumstances. The socialist believed in the force of history, and making history. Everything according to it's background.. No WW1 no the rest..

[@veritas6335]

Me Beevor needs to adjust his computer camera. He looks like a detached head floating in space.

[@McIntyreBible]

18:42, a very interesting fact!

[@MFIORE7511]

Who was the writer at37 minutes of the greatest novel of the 2nd world war novel said to be the war & peace ? Grossman ?

[@drbrainstein1644]

Vassili Grossman?

[@McIntyreBible]

19:11, when did the Cold War begin?

[@McIntyreBible]

32:32, Beevor is asked about Montgomery & Eisenhower.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Why does the US government treat it's veterans so poorly? Past support continues to erode. It's the way that during the pandemic, we gave the title of "heroes" and "essential" workerwho often put themselves at great risk ( treating patients, delivering curbside). Back to business as usual. Squalid working conditions, low pay and invisibility.

[@SerghijBuzko]

Poor on the facts of history, sorry. It's necessary to overcome the misleading practices of learning the Eastern Europe only from the history devised by Moskovia.