Shazzam!

...and one fine day in 2006 - "Directive 19" dropped into the middle of them.

A lot of the guys on there had read it whren it appeared. Military history is mostly literary. Yes, you can go to museums, and reenactments, and living history days, and warbird air displays...even talk to your relatives like me ol' dad who were there...but to get the REAL detail, it's still in the pages of books. Even websites are mostly just distilled knowledge out of those books, or old magazine articles.

So they'd read the book as individuals, some of them...as dismissed it as rubbish. If you've ever tried to find a copy, and NOT found it in a library? That's why - its reputation preceeded it!

....then these little faces started appearing on Second World War forums. You know the type, you've seem 'em everywhere -

"Hey, I've just read Directive 19 and it's great! What do you guys think?"

"You can find the answer to that in Paul K. Harker's Directive 19..."

" But Paul K. Harker's Directive 19 says..."

All very bloody normal, eh?

NOT in this case....