'The Dambusters - A Reassessment' by television historian and broadcaster James Holland

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  • @Alan71483
    @Alan71483 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    this guy is brilliant!! His Battle of Britain lecture is one of the best!! wish all my history teachers had been this interesting and enthusiastic.

    • @pamelaandrew8138
      @pamelaandrew8138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could you supply link for the Battle of Britain lecture please?

    • @Smithgirll
      @Smithgirll 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pamelaandrew8138 th-cam.com/video/rf8QeiosCeQ/w-d-xo.html here’s one

  • @marknelson2846
    @marknelson2846 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    His book on the subject is outstanding.

  • @theotherside8258
    @theotherside8258 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read years ago the more contemporary books such as enemy coast ahead about this and its amazing how much new information can be found about this. The negative reviews of the raid seem to be by people who don't actually have a sufficient level of knowledge but are willing to repeat cheap shots to be clever.

  • @chiselcheswick5673
    @chiselcheswick5673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great talk by a great historian.

  • @christophercoverdale2955
    @christophercoverdale2955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Well done James , really enjoyed your presentation on the Dambusters

  • @chrisst8922
    @chrisst8922 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I watched James Holland's Race To Smash The Dams programme last night and it's the best programme on the subject. He's a very good speaker. I wonder if he'd do something on R. V. Jones.

  • @joeelliott2157
    @joeelliott2157 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great presentation of a great subject.

  • @richardvandervord832
    @richardvandervord832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fascinating detail, engaging and thought-provoking delivery

  • @Kabul81
    @Kabul81 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    James Holland does some good documentary work!
    Jman

  • @colinrunciman5166
    @colinrunciman5166 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Abboluty, brilliant, your completely correct.

  • @christianleconte5466
    @christianleconte5466 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Two important points seem to be left out from all podcasts and books or articles and which appear in the book :
    " The Dambusters"
    1 As a last ditch effort seeing all the high command was refusing to go along the inventor , through a high placed friend, managed to get the plan directly to Winston Churchill who approved it after asking only one question.
    How many planes would be involved?
    2 the second planes bomb which flew over the dam took out the 2 german firing positions when it exploded.
    Both of these were much more detailed in the book which said that the inventor who was totally devastated by the death of almost half of the aviators .

  • @jimthorne304
    @jimthorne304 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think, following the description of the way in which it was decided to embark upon the dams raid, there's a field of study out there to look at the way WW2 was managed in the combatant countries. We have a certain amount of information for Germany, Russia, and Japan, but for the UK it's often quite obscure, and the roles played by Churchill and the War Office seem to be relatively obscure.
    I would say that in a war many mistakes are made by the leaders of the combatant countries, even to the point that wars are 'won' by the country that makes the smallest number of mistakes. Some were killed off, e.g. his desire to invade the Balkans, others, e.g. Norway or the invasion of Italy, were rather more questionable. There are also serious questions about the air war, and the way that Harris was able to run very much his own private war carpet bombing German cities, when there is a case that this was ineffective and a waste of resources.

  • @kamran102
    @kamran102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    When I saw the title of this talk I thought it would be some kind of terrible Social Justice angle, pointing out all the "racism", "sexism" and "white supremacy" going on. Thank God I was wrong.. ;-)

    • @belbrighton6479
      @belbrighton6479 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol because you love white supremacy, racism and sexism? As and foul knows the RAF was stock full of men and women from all over the world. Thanks to our Empire, dominions, allies and friends the brave airmen and wider RAF support was incredibly diverse. We won thanks to their efforts and courage.

    • @PapaCubScout
      @PapaCubScout ปีที่แล้ว

      😂 Exactly! You never know….😅

  • @RobHoard
    @RobHoard 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This guy has no idea how close he was t speaking German. We just barely won that one. Without the US. You would not have prevailed.

    • @him050
      @him050 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Germany lost WW2 on September 1st 1939

    • @27Dionysis
      @27Dionysis 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And without the British the US would have let Fascism take over Europe and much of the world.

  • @dennismason3740
    @dennismason3740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Isn't Harris the monster who prescribed the Dresden Massacre?

    • @victornewman9904
      @victornewman9904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      No, I understand a vegetarian politician Mr A. Hitler was responsible

    • @andrewtorrens947
      @andrewtorrens947 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What a prat!!!!......the amount of deaths was debunked years ago.....it was a legitimate target.....not saying anything about Coventry????