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> This article seems to have some interesting points

I'm sorry, but it's nothing but pop history and armchair general's what-ifs IMHO.

It doesn't account for potential potent counter-attacks on the South flank of the over-stretched AGC, it assumes that the Soviets would themselves surround at Bryansk, it assumes that one of the most regular meteorological event of the Russian climate wouldn't happen, it assumes that AGC somehow has enough fuel and supplie to actually lead such a battle, it assumes that the Soviet would stand still and don't counter-attack everywhere they can, etc.

If you want an excellent book to get a good grasp on the situation of the Easter Front, I strongly commend When Titans Clashed from David Glantz – US Army historian specialized in Soviet military history – which is a cheap and incredibly good source of informations.

Out of all the documentaries and literature I have seen, The World at War series by Laurence Oliver was the best. What really sets it apart is the amount of high-ranking first hand accounts people give in it.

Narration was perfect, editing and structure was easy to follow, and the footage is some of the best you will see on the Blu ray or Stream versions.

Also as a personal note from me having watched it recently; it has really gotten me more into HOI4, since now I can understand some of the smaller nuances I didn't even know before. Like why France was nearly half communist with such a low national unity and could easily switch over in goverments. Or how you can begin to comprehend the Soviets were never going to be beaten with how mobilized their industrial complex already was and their immense manpower compared to Germany's.

https://www.amazon.com/World-War-Ultimate-Restored-Collectors/dp/B003IN7YPU/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1475001066&sr=8-7

@JustARandomGerman Dude, I'm fucking rolling with laughter. My first Master's was in military history. My second Master's was in Operations Management at Central Connecticut State University, which due to the presence of Bob Emiliani and David Stec, has an extremely heavy emphasis on Lean. They won the Shingo for their book, Better Thinking, Better Results. I've spouted Lean at basically every job I've had, and I would not have expected to meet a kindred spirit on the HoI4 Reddit, of all places. I haven't read The Machine that Changed the World, but I have read Lean Thinking by them. I like Womack and Jones a lot more than I like Liker. Lean is fundamentally a binary system: Continuous Improvement, and Respect for People. Liker doesn't even mention Respect for People. It aggravates me to no end.

But yeah, you're entirely right. Japanese industry had nothing after World War II, so any waste was a potentially crippling, if not company-closing, issue. Sitting on a huge inventory of parts, like Henry Ford was wont to do, could choke out a company running on a shoestring. What gets me is that people think that Lean is only for low-mix, high-volume applications, and it's like, you clueless shits, Shingo wouldn't have had such a fetish for SMED and changeover time reduction if that was the case! The post-war Japanese auto environment was a very high mix, so Toyota had to adapt itself to handle a high-mix environment! You can see that I am agitated by these misconceptions by my exclamation marks!


In any case. Yes, Japan came from nothing to become an industrial powerhouse. The thing is, part of that came from the Training Within Industry that I mentioned earlier, which is rooted in Frederick Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management. That is available on Project Gutenberg, and while it is extremely dated, it is very interesting to see the earliest roots of Lean management. Check it out, it's less than 100 pages, and once you strip away the casual racism of the early 1900s, you can see the bones of Lean. As for TWI, I haven't found a good source for it, though I have found this book that supposedly covers it. I haven't read it yet, though, so I don't know how good it is. But still. TWI is what lead the US to be able to make a Liberty ship in less than a week, or churn out a B-24 every hour. It only kinda shows up in HoI4, what with the tooling and concentrated factory lines, but I still don't think that it encapsulates the boost that TWI gave to the US.


Right. I'll end it here, but by all means feel free to fire back with other Lean stuff. Somewhere, I might have some articles for you, if you're interested.

You are p dumb and also you rely on Wikipedia for knowledge. The Roman (not Greek) emperor renamed the city after himself but to the Greek population until and after the fall of the city in 1453, thirteen centuries later, it remained Byzantium. and that was the name of their empire as a result.

I suggest that you first read John Julius Norwich's superb three-part history of the Byzantines:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-Early-Centuries-v/dp/0140114475
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-v-Apogee-Apogee/dp/0140114483/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Byzantium-Decline-John-Julius-Norwich/dp/0140114491/

Then a useful primary source to start with would be Anna Komnene's Alexiad, written about her father the Emperor and infused with first-hand knowledge of the city of Byzantium and its empire: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexiad-Penguin-Classics-Anna-Komnene/dp/0140455272

Then perhaps something like Procopius' Secret History. Then come back and try and tell me that you don't cringe at that time you thought the Greeks called their city "Constantinople".

1. Happy Cake Day dude.
   
2. This is not an alt-history book.
   https://www.amazon.com/1421-Year-China-Discovered-America/dp/0061564893
   
   Don’t trust everything you read.
   

Sell your current and then buy a better one. This one is along the lines of what you need, but if you want to play other games you need an actual GPU.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B018YIGHVK/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1497186577&sr=1-4&refinements=p_n_feature_four_browse-bin%3A2289792011%2Cp_n_feature_seven_browse-bin%3A3012496011%2Cp_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A7817224011&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=laptop&dpPl=1&dpID=51XSQzRkAaL&ref=plSrch

Fair enough. Anything with over 3GHz should be fine if it doesn't have 'book' or tablet in the name.

This one is fine

Anything from this list should be more than enough

What cards do you recommend? I saw one for $170 on Amazon w/ 4gb and planning on getting that one based on my computers performance

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MA62JSZ/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_.v3jDbJKBP7M0

Does being on Amazon Video count as being hard to find?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019O28T66/

I guess maybe it'd depend on where you live but yeah.

I'm trying to imagine Joseph Stalin leading the Allies....shivers...yeaaahhh, nope.jpg

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On a related note, if anyone does want to actually see that, check out Joe Steele , that's a novel full of all kinds of shivers.

Generals:

Ferdinand Čatloš,
Rudolfa Viest,
Anton Pulanich,
Alexandr Čunderlík,
Jozef Turanc,
Augustín Malár, Štefan Jurech.

Slovak manufacturers:
Povážské strojírny
Zbrojovka Dubnica

wiki is a good source:
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovensk%C3%A1_republika_(1939%E2%80%931945)#.C3.9A.C4.8Dast_ve_v.C3.A1lce

or even this:

https://www.amazon.com/Germanys-First-Ally-1939-1945-Schiffer/dp/0764305891


Regarding airforce...
Hitler calls Tiso:
"Situation on the Soviet front is critical! Send me all the planes you can spare!"
"Hm, and do you want one, two, or all three?"

You should check out both Tiger Tracks and The Last Panther by Wolfgang Faust. Memoirs of his experiences as part of a Tiger and Panther crew on the Eastern Front and last days of the war in Germany. They aren't that long so you will probably breeze through them but they are very engaging.

This actually happened to Brazil when Napoleon was threatening Portugal. Haven't read it yet, but here is the book you could read on what happened. If you would like the spoiler read the summary of Pedro I of Brazil here

I recommend Playing With The Past if you want to learn more about games' role in conveying history. Games have a bigger role than most people think, but not in the traditional sense.

asus vivobook f510ua ah51

looks like it no longer costs 516$

still only 540$

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-VivoBook-Lightweight-WideView-Fingerprint/dp/B0762S8PYM/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&th=1

has m.2 and ram slot if you need a ssd or ram

For a brief overview of all things Modern Europe, I'd go with this. It covers from the 1400's onward.

Bismarck, Life and Times if you want something for just Bismarck.

Europe and the Making of Modernity covers events from 1815-1914.

Nineteenth-Century Europe A Cultural History for the overview of the century from a different perspective.

And Nationalism in Europe for the more Imperial aspects of the century.