Yeah - I was too young then so I do not remember ;-) But the point was that the civilians suffer always the most - and these two examples came to my mind because I have read books about them recently. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen -----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Robert Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 14. syyskuuta 2001 4:50 Aihe: Re: Vs: Bombing Japan - private >Raimo Korhonen wrote: >> >> Actually civilians have always suffered the most. The diseases and famine that came >with the 30 years war which ended 1648 left more than 50% of the people dead in many >parts of Germany. The Great Nordic war (I do not know what it is really called in >English) which ended with the peace treaty of Uusikaupunki (Nystad in Swedish) in >1721 did the same around the Baltic sea etc. And of the soldiers more died of the >diseases than in battles... So the good old times were not so good. And Soviet Union >lost approx. 14 million soldiers and 7 million civilians (estimates do vary) in the >WW II. > >Why start so late in history? We could start with the sack of Troy, >perhaps. : > >Bob Harris >New York) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
