heroes of telemark
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- unknown
fuckin hell thats some story.
Ray Mears has a documentary on uk tv at the moment, just think. if it wasnt for them, via nuclear bombs from hitler, history could have been very different
- dstlb0
Mmm, Reindeer Moss and rotten fish, my favourites! Good programme, did you see the first one?
- unknown0
yeh, just amazing what they went through. our lives are so dull and sanatised compared to then. I couldnt do any of that shit
- dstlb0
I might be able to do the skiing bit and maybe dig a snow hole but apart from that I'd be fucked. London is a bit easy compared to Norway though.
- unknown0
just makes you realise what ww2 was like. Every bloke who could was fighting. We have nothing to fight, which has made us fat and lasy
- jevad0
I love war stories like that - nice link ian
- dstlb0
I know, I was up in the Italian mountains on Saturday checking out a load of caves cut out of the rock in WW1 by the locals to use as sniper posts to repel the Austrians, makes you realise how easy we have it.
- unknown0
there is a book too.
- jevad0
I was with my two grandmothers this weekend. One of them is writing her memoirs and was telling me about the war years...my grandad was a british marine and saw a lot of service - I finally got to see all his medals and photos and it was pretty amazing...
I majored in wartime history and it saddens me that within a very few years...almost everyone who fought from that decade...will be dead....
- unknown0
It is amazing what they did really. Same with my grand-dad, whom I never met (died just after the war).
He was a history teacher when he went to the war, and as such collected everything he could find as a record. His journal is in the imperial war museum on London. Well worth a read.
- jevad0
"His journal is in the imperial war museum on London"
thats brilliant - do you know where exactly? I love the IWM so any excuse to go back!!
^_^
- unknown0
sorry the one in the north J
well worth a visit. awesome building and the lowery centre is right next door.
my GD's collection is in the Personal Papers section. Capt Farrer. and his brother wrote a diary when he was on the river Kwai. Im going there on my travels to see his grave soon, which should be something.
- dstlb0
I got my gran to take me through my grandad's WW2 photo album recently, amazing stuff, have a vague idea to scan it all in and design a site around them. Need to do some more research to back it all up though.
- save0
the movie is superb
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=h…
- thosethat0
yes..!
sunday nights just got a whole lot better...
not only ol' ray mears' heroes of telemark...
but that fantastic sas survival secrets thing on right before it...
makes you glad to have a telly...
but that ray mears show...
like you say really makes you think...
my grandad was a commando in the war...
never spoke about any of it though...
we owe a lot to some truly incredible people...
- unknown0
my grandad was harder than your grandad
he he
har har.
brave men the lot of them. I was having this conversation with my flatmate last night, and if there was a REAL threat to your country, would you take up arms.
resounding absolutley. strange as im a pussy.
- save0
I wouldn't fight for my country...
- dstlb0
The SAS one is pretty funny, mainly because it has the bloke out of This Life doing the voiceover.
Not sure why but that programme feels quite unreal whereas anything to do with WW1 or WW2 feels much more real and somehow more relevant. Anyone else get that or is it just me?
- save0
anybody watch this...
http://www.time.com/time/teach/b…
...those guys were pretty hard!!
- dstlb0
Oh - a word of warning, We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson is one of the worst war films I've ever had the misfortune to see, do not on any account waste your time on it no matter how bad the selection at Blockbuster might be.
- jevad0
band of brothers was fantastic...very very factual....
I don't know if I would take arms - I am too much of a pacifist..I would find other ways to help probably...it's hard to say...