ospalh"thirty 31,500-ton barges"
Well, that ar some big barges.🙄
The source must have been something like "30, 31 500-ton barges" meaning 30 barges or 31 barges.
#ospalhreads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky #barge #monsterBarge
Ugh.
Found another tipografic sin in the book.
And it is not just violating a rule, but confusing.
I thought the sentence ended with »borders .«, and that the real typo was a rogue space between a word and a full stop.
No, yu do not put a line break inside an #ellipsis.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky #typography #tipografy #ellipsis
»Lublin–Krakovsky region«
Now the author has stopped translating and is just transliterating.
In context that frase makes sense. I don't see Poles using
»Lublin Cracow region«, but this is a Soviet general staring down the Wehrmacht in Poland and wondering whether they will march again
Oh, so there ar three spelling variants
•Romania
•Rumania
•Roumania
and this book uses them all! 🤦🏼
OK, the »Roumania« is in quotes, but yu could write it as »R[u]mania« or put the change in the notes.
The »Romania« is in a translated quote. Here the author could just have changed it.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky #RomaniaRoumaniaRumania
Other bits ar just the author making spelling errors and the editors not catching them.
This seems to be from a Bulgarian source, so presumably the author’s transliteration/translation.
Or maybe it is one of those infamous »Flemish tipografers« that inserted the »h« into »gost«.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky #simplifiedSpelling
Looks like #Gorodetsky has a bit of a Problem with names. Not that great for a historian.
The Index of #GrandDelusion: »Saracoglu, Shukru«
🤔 Looks Turkish to me. That is, misspelt Turkish. That’s supposed to be a »ğ«, innit?
… and an »Ş« instead of a »Sh« and two »ü«s.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9E%C3%BCkr%C3%BC_Saraco%C4%9Flu
This one does, but *every* #Wikipedia &c. article about somebody cald #Menzies should specify how to pronounce it in that case.
And this one is the proper /ˈmɪŋɪz/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Menzies
Got this guy in the Index to #GrandDelusion
And this one is the proper /ˈmɪŋɪz/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Menzies
Got this guy in the Index to #GrandDelusion
Oh.
No need to share my version of #GrandDelusion when i’m thru with digitizing it:
https://archive.org/details/granddelusionsta00goro_0/mode/2up
No need to share my version of #GrandDelusion when i’m thru with digitizing it:
https://archive.org/details/granddelusionsta00goro_0/mode/2up
The core point of the book, »Stalin did not plan on invading Nazi held territories« is a bit harder to proof than it seems.
You aren’t done with proving that Hitler didn’t invade to stop Stalin, but for conquest and murder.
You could have both of them ready to attack the other.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky
You aren’t done with proving that Hitler didn’t invade to stop Stalin, but for conquest and murder.
You could have both of them ready to attack the other.
#ospalhReads #GrandDelusion #Gorodetsky
Warum ich mich mit toten Nazis rumschlage? Ich lese zurzeit »Grand Delusion«, die Historiker-Antwort auf die Nicht-Historiker-These, dass Stalin am 6. Juli 1941 angreifen wollte. Siehe »#Eisbrecher«/»#Ледокол«.