War is Hell!
Union general William T. Sherman famously said once that “war is hell.” Nobody would argue with that. But the truth is that every battle is a smaller version of hell and battles and wars often turn on small events: consider Hitler’s inexplicable refusal to send in the panzers to support German defenses on June 6, 1944. Or the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914. Or the fact that the B-29 bomber Bock’s Car was unable to visually acquire its primary target of Kokura Arsenal on August 9, 1945 and had to make multiple bombing runs over its secondary target to drop its Fat Man atom bomb…on a city called Nagasaki.
War is Hell is a series of what-if tales that explore the consequences of small changes in actual events, small changes that, as chaos theory holds, create huge consequences later.
Author William Faulkner once said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In war and conflict, the results of battles endure for generations, shaping nations and cultures.
Read the tales of War is Hell and decide for yourself what really happened.