Some of us knew a little more about the war than the average person I think, but nothing compared to the amount we know now :). A lot of research has gone into this game, and I think we all have a different outlook on the war as compared to when we started :).

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Benson
benson@2015.com

"We don't introduce or cause bugs in the game, we merely find and bring to light the inadequacies within the code."
-regarding level designers

That's what It's all about.

What are some good books to read so I may become as knowledgable as the history buffs around here ?? I'm more into modern day combat, but please tell me some good books to get on WW2.

thx elmagoo


maybe when all is said and done , they can use this game for educational purposes and make highschool kids play the game in school http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Nah 2015 doesnt have a clue bout world war 2 they just doin it cause they think there so gooooooooooooood!! Nah 2015 is pretty smart I say 100 IQ combined?

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"For the burned cities and villages; for the deaths of our children and our mothers; for the torture and humiliation of our people; I swear revenge upon the enemy… I swear that I would rather die in battle with the enemy then surrender myself my people and my country to the Fascist invaders. Blood for blood! Death for death!" - Russian War Oath

were any of you guys into ww2 before you started with this game ?


and whats Mike powell look like ? i hope your not making him to look like tom hanks

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The Forgotten Soldier, by Guy Sajer

The Rommel Papers, edited by Lidell Hart

Steel Inferno, by Michael Reynolds

Just a few good ones...any of these make for great reading about WW2 combat.

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"Meine Ehre heißt Treue"

You lukn 4 agud war book.You should buy Stalingrad then.

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I think you should invest some money in a spelling book, rather then buying more war books!

Well if it wasn't for Earl (Coriolis on here) we'd in the negatives IQ-wise (he alone keeps us up there ;)p.

Well, alot of good info is available out there on the net. Go to a good search engine and just enter WWII and see what you get.

Any book by Stephen Ambrose is a great place to start as well. 'Citizen Soldiers' or 'D-Day', and there's a fairly large book he's got called 'American Heritage New History of World War II' with lots of great pics from the era, and has a lot of great info covering the whole span of the war.

A lot of the other books we have are specialty books. For instance we have a small book just on Tiger tanks, one on combat aircraft of WWII, lots of books covering uniforms (there's a series called the Osprey Series by Concord Publishing that covers uniforms of all different kinds of troops across all of history, they've got some great stuff). We also have several books on German bunkers, U-Boat pens and submarines, Artillery pieces, etc.... Jeff, one of our artists here, is like the king of digging up the obscure stuff. I swear he can hunt down a link on the web, or a book on the hardest to find stuff :). He's got a ton of books he's bought for his own personal collection just on WWII that we've all used.

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Benson
benson@2015.com

"We don't introduce or cause bugs in the game, we merely find and bring to light the inadequacies within the code."
-regarding level designers

I am a total WW2 buff, but I have to admit it all started once I got the first MOH game. I ended up doing a research paper on the OSS because I was so interested. Just to let you know I got a 98 on the paper. One of the interesting things I found out was that Hitler's gardener secretly was against Hitler. The OSS gave him some female hormones to put in his vegetables to make Hitler go over the edge. I believe it was called off the last minute though. I also found out that the Americans used Navajo (or some other tribe) Indians to communicate. They did this so the Axis could not intercept communications. I believe that story is being made into a movie soon. I think it's called Wind Talkers or something like that. This year I did a report on Heinrich Himmler, not as interesting, but still much better than the other topics I had to choose from. Thanks to MOH I have the utmost respect for veterans. I only wish it was still called the OSS instead of the CIA. Not to many people even know what the OSS was.

I have loved ww2 eversense my grandpa told me stories when I was a child

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riesep

check out CIA's site about the OSS

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/oss/

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riesep

check out CIA's site about the OSS

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You know when I did my research paper I looked for an official OSS site and under the CIA's site, but I could not find one. I do recognize some of the stuff I learned from the books I read. Thanks for the link.

yea me too H-A

my grandfather is really why i got interested in that Era .