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Who romanticizes WWII urban warfare?
by treis 5y ago
Who romanticizes WWII urban warfare?
- verelo 5y agoHollywood?
- acdha 5y agoReally? I won’t claim to have exhaustively surveyed it but it sure felt like it was widely recognized as a brutal ordeal with random sudden death never far away. Most of the “greatest generation” imagery was grounded in the idea of slogging through it anyways.
- verelo 5y agoYeah, i suppose it depends how you define it. To me a lot of movies run a line through both, making it look grand and horrible rather well.
- iso1210 5y agoThe Brits romanticize the blitz. Russia certainly has views on Stanlingrad.
- throwanem 5y agoThat was a strategic bombing campaign, and an anemic one by the standards of the later war. Also bad, but not properly urban warfare, and I think a case could be plausibly made that urban warfare is meaningfully worse.