... expressed his displeasure and was quoted as saying, "Is it not a usurpation of imperial authority for the military attaché to promise, on his own, our military cooperation with Germany?- In a surprising move, Hitler put the alliance with Japan in the back of his mind and signed a non-aggression treaty with ... agreement between the West and Japan otherwise war was imminent. Emperor Hirohito questioned the cabinet members and many of his questions were set with and underlying tone of fear. Despite one final call for negations to the army and navy generals, Hirohito knew his words would o...

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... are probably fairly realistic, while the rate of fire, although already shown as strong, is almost certainly underestimated, or underplayed. In areas around the Belgium town of Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) salients created vicious cross-fire by both machine-guns and artillery, (the latter known as "enfilading" = to sweep ... "morass of glue-like mud" seeming sinisterly different from the simplistically ideal situation in source I, while the colour picture of that source (in our books) makes an even more interesting comparison, with no shell-holes, and the only mud being the trenches. The her...

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