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Normandy. Tunisia. Stalingrad. Palls of oily black smoke towering over ruined cities. Automatic weapons chattering and soldiers shouting in shattering 5.1-channel audio. Battlefields it would take years to find Private Ryan in. When it arrives this fall, Call of Duty 2 (for PC and Xbox 360) will be the new state of the art in simulated WW II combat. Whatever campaign you choose--American, British, Russian or all of the above--it will be so intense, you'll almost wish you'd drawn a desk job Stateside. Almost...
...firm no, but it is a no that derives from history, not from meanness of spirit. The nightmare of World War II is simply not to be smiled away, first because the war touched everywhere, not just the Western Front, but Piccadilly and the Champs Elysées and Stalingrad. Second, because it was both a war and a crime--6 million Jews and perhaps 4.5 million others exterminated. What Reagan may not understand is that cemeteries house visible ghosts. At Bitburg, the SS troops still rant and hunt. At Bergen-Belsen the children still weep...
...retrospect, the outcome should have appeared inevitable--perhaps ever since the Allied invasion of North Africa in late 1942, probably since the Soviet victory at Stalingrad in 1943, almost certainly since D-day and the Normandy break out and the liberation of Paris in the summer of 1944. The Allied advantage in troops and weapons meant that it was only a matter of time before the Germans were defeated...
...suggest that D-DAY turned the tide of World War II exaggerates the significance of the landing. A widely acknowledged turning point was the 1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad, which ended in a dramatic reversal for the German army. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union's critical contribution to Germany's defeat is often downplayed by the West. JURGEN SCHMIDHUBER Manno-Lugano, Switzerland
...battle for Baghdad. In their most optimistic scenarios, U.S. officials had imagined their forces being welcomed into Baghdad by cheering crowds, like those that had greeted the liberators of Paris in 1944. But Saddam may be nurturing a World War II image of his own - the brutal battle for Stalingrad that broke the back of Hitler's offensive and decisively turned the tide of the war. (Saddam, being something of a student of Stalin, may also be encouraged by the fact that although Russians loathed their dictator, they fought bravely to defend their country from invasion - even if sometimes...