I know it's a generic choice, but I've always thought Operation Spring Awakening produced some really good photos.
>>64647437Waterloo. Hugo's telling of it remains unmatched.
>>64647437Kyiv 1941
The foreign legion at camaron
>>64647437The lads defending Pokrovsk before the ziggers temporarily occupied it (Ukraine has most of the city retaken)There were literal mountains of dead ziggers around certain houses where defenders never gave up, and in the "Valley of death" part of the city where the meat waves reached their most intense parts.
>>64647437Vukovar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XfYH0y8jkAzovstal Steelworks Mariupolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEPX5dewpTkChurch of Saints Cyril and Methodius in PragueThey held of over 750 SS for 6 hourshttps://youtu.be/jaX2mKbsNiw?si=LaEpLByyUW_alzYv&t=5537Vitaly Skakun Volodymyrovych for halting a column of Russian tanks at Henicheskhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRQNg2q68IArnhem Parashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEoaUjkCy7cFirst Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia Gary Gordon Randy Shughart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0h24ii7XYJadotVillehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxT0OmnxrUthe old guard waterloohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt4mYUKjzn0Stand of the Swiss Guard 1527https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/Operation Chariothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Zd0Oy8JyQWarsaw ghetto uprisinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S1OOYWjJs
The Siege of Malta the last stand at Fort St.Elmohttps://timesofmalta.com/article/the-loss-of-fort-st-elmo-1565.799878#:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF8CIOJcHcQ
>>64647437Alamo, duh. But Little Big Horn, while a victory for the 'skins was really them fucking themselves.
>>64648027>Vukovarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXo9Al2dUSU
Taffy 3 at the battle of Samar. Since they actually won it.
>>64647437I consider Stalingrad to be one of the most consequential "last stands" in modern history. If the city fell then Baku oil flows freely to feed the German war machine and Moscow is besieged in a couple months (weeks?)
FictionalHemmingways machine gun at the bridge For Whom the Bell Tolls was always an inspiration to me but people are not so brace in reality when it comes down to it. "Robert Jordan saw them there on the slope, close to him now, and below he saw the road and the bridge and the long lines of vehicles below it. He was completely integrated now and he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at the sky. There were big white clouds in it. He touched the palm of his hand against the pine needles where he lay and he touched the bark of the pine trunk that he lay behind. Then he rested easily as he could with his two elbows in the pine needles and the muzzle of the submachine gun resting against the trunk of the pine tree. As the officer came trotting now on the trail of the horses of the band he would pass twenty yards below where Robert Jordan lay. At that distance there would be no problem. The officer was Lieutenant Berrendo. He had come up from La Granja when they had been ordered up after the first report of the attack on the lower post. They had ridden hard and had then had to swing back, because the bridge had been blown, to cross the gorge high above and come around through the timber. Their horses were wet and blown and they had to be urged into the trot. Lieutenant Berrendo, watching the trail, came riding up, his thin face serious and grave. His submachine gun lay across his saddle in the crook of his left arm. Robert Jordan lay behind the tree, holding onto himself very carefully and delicately to keep his hands steady. He was waiting until the officer reached the sunlit place where the first trees of the pine forest joined the green slope of the meadow. He could feel his heart beating against the pine needle floor of the forest."
>>64648123>he took a good long look at everything. Then he looked up at thesky. There were big white clouds in it.Was Hemingway mentally challenged? This reads like a 6th grade reading level
>>64648027I’ve always had immense respect for Gary and Randy, as well as the rest of the Delta C Squadron guys that died that day.
>>64648140Not everything is the old man and the sea anon. Sometimes stuff is in peoples back catalogue because it’s not perfect
>>64648027>Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Praguethe cellar now
>>64648140You're an idiot and you don't even know it
