All the sites I find for the book Europa w przededniu wojny only ship in Poland. If you ship to the US, please let me know:
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/4984764/europa-w-przededniu-wojny
The Dirty Dozen
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I happened to watch this again a few days ago and it occurred to me - these guys are war criminals. Their objective was a military one, but holy crap if they didn’t break every Geneva Convention rule. All of those Germens were willing to surrender, but instead they doused an air raid bunker with gasoline and than threw grenades into it. :?
You could argue the men were in uniform so it can be assumed they were military, but their wives sure as hell weren’t (or any of the females that they burned alive).
I always liked the movie, even being as old as it is. What is disturbing is that my recent revelation about the movie really does show that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s patriot”.
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I hated it. Have not watched it since I was 18 or somewhere around there.
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Thanks for reminding me of the cast. It is the storyline I hated.
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The movie is a story of some condemned soldiers who are offered amnesty if they volunteer for this particular military mission and survive. They were not depicting terrorists it was a military mission with a military goal. I would never view terroristic acts as being patriotic. War is ugly. The only thing that is worse than war is losing a war. I hope that we have reached a point in this world that a conflict such as WWII will not happen. But if ever it does we must do whatever it takes to ensure if possible that it doesn’t occur and failing that - doing what it takes to win. War has only one rule. Terrorists are not patriots and a military mission is not a terroristic act. Close your eyes and envision the world if “they” had been the victors and gotten the "spoils. Those were the days-all star cast. Longest Day was star studded. THE DUKE.
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@rjpeters70:
Hate it? Lee Marvin? Jim Brown? Trini Lopez? Donald Sutherland? Telly Savalas? Charles Bronson? George Kennedy? Jesus, what a cast!
A good movie just for the sake of the actors. Lee, Donald, Charlie and Telly are faves of mine. I grew up with these guys because of my Pop, so I have some bias LOL.
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That’s not all he’s saying.
He’s also saying you are a war criminal today Peters!
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Yes indeed, first of all would Hitler have won Stalin would have been dead and communism there would have been destroyed.
Question: If Stalin’s death were the only thing required for communism to be destroyed in the USSR, how did the Soviet regime manage to survive until 1991 despite the fact that Stalin died thirty-eight years earlier in 1953?
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