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**One_of_the_strange** · 03-08-2004, 15:32

"It Happened Here" - an alternative history look at England being occupied by the Nazis. The bit that sticks in my mind is a scene where a bunch of British SS (Iron Duke Div or similar) surrenders. One of their captors goes tonto and slots the lot with a MG42. Very well done, and quite disturbing. Most of the plot follows a nurse who drifts into the Nazi party, gets sent to a hospital where they euthenise "undesirables", tries to leg it, gets caught and then captured by the resistance. Well worth watching.

**Mr Happy** · 03-08-2004, 15:43

Originally Posted by One_of_the_strange

"It Happened Here" - Well worth watching.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...57556?v=glance

**Arfur** · 03-08-2004, 16:19

I can't believe no-one has mentioned the Clint Eastwood film, Heartbreak Ridge. Yank Military cheese at it's best...

**Mr Happy** · 03-08-2004, 16:26

Sometimes we just need a nig to show us what is right in front of our eyes.... Quick use the dozer to take out the gaurd tower...

**Stavinski** · 07-08-2004, 11:25

Ditto on 'It Happened Here', I saw it ages ago, in spite of the country being overun by nazis it does include the British resistance playing far from fair and maintains a reasonable balance. Gets a bit boring at times though.

**mushroom** · 10-08-2004, 21:57

Zulu is brilliant.

Kelly's Heros hilarious.

Tunes of Glory accurate

But for getting it right try 'They were not divided'. A low budget 1950's b&w film about three types who join the Guards in 1940. No shit, no heroics just a storyline that oozes believability and reality. A very British film.

And the best books on the Army - Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser (if you're a tom) and McAuslan in the Rough and The General Danced Till Dawn (if one is commissioned).

**King_Nothing** · 12-08-2004, 15:50

I'm trying to remember the name of this film I saw a while go, think it was black and white, I think it was set in Africa, and the Africans had bofors set on this house where the soldiers were, in and they began to sing and play the piano so that some of them could sneak out and around, and end up sneaking into a firing range, thats the only part i can really remember much of, anyone know of said film?

**gallowglass** · 12-08-2004, 16:11

Originally Posted by mushroom

And the best books on the Army - Quartered Safe Out Here by George McDonald Fraser (if you're a tom) and McAuslan in the Rough and The General Danced Till Dawn (if one is commissioned).

Hear! Hear! All are excellent reads. Don't forget The Sheikh and the Dustbin, which completes the McAuslan trilogy. I would say they are essential reading for any young officer today - the scenes in the mess are spot-on, and the portrayal of regimental characters is deadly accurate.