Operation Overlord

[Danzig]

the story of how they had fake planes, fake army, tents set up, patton 'training' his 'troops'....the ingenuity was fantastic. when patton was first told was his new command was, he was angry (yeah, go figure-him angry!) but when they explained what they were doing, he not only signed on, he had a blast with it all.

history channel had a show called greatest blunders in history, or something along those lines. hitler's blunders were legendary. not listening to rommel, who said all along it was the atlantic wall (hitler said rommel was a defeatist) allowing the brits to evacuate at dunkirk when he had their backs to the wall, calling off the battle of britain and invading the soviet union, declaring war on us when japan attacked us...

i recommend ian kershaw's two volume set on hitler. it's just mind-boggling. 'hubris' and 'nemesis' are the titles.