For British writer Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire was the culmination of what, in his imperialist view, was Britain’s destiny and God’s will. He was born in India in 1865;…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 9th Book Review of the Year!! As the British prepared to leave Palestine in the late 1940s, the Jews of Palestine found themselves…

An eye-opening expose of the Pre-D-Day disaster and incident of friendly fire tragedy and cover up that was the Slapton Sands. This training disaster resulted in the loss of 746…

Meanwhile, Don splendidly describes how in the spring of 1861 John Caldwell CalhounSanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the11 th Alabama Volunteer…

Canada and the US have been close allies for over a century.  But it wasn’t always this way, and the Citadelle of Québec City and its surroundings are proof. The…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 96th Book Review of the Year!! The principles of Storm Trooper/Blitzkrieg warfare are clear- start the offensive by flowing forward – avoiding…

Operation Market Garden brought in stunning colorized images. Operation Market Garden, which began on September 17 and ended on September 25, was an unsuccessful Allied military operation sustaining between 15,000-17,000…

general in 1943, the mild-mannered Eaker, the following year, was promoted Commander ofAllied Forces in the Mediterranean. Flying from bases in Italy, Ira’s new combined fleet of 17sand 24s continued…

Catalog / By ARGunners Magazine TITLE: The Man in the High Castle What would it be like if the Allied Powers had lost World War II, and Japan and Germany…

forbidden to take them in because they were “fascist children”. For decades their fates hadremained overlooked by Germany, even the government of the unified new Germany. Truly,this one of unfortunate…

Warship Builders – An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Ship Building, 1922-1945, by Thomas Heinrich (Naval Institute Press, 2021, 346pp, $29). Liberty Factory – The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s…

In the village of Ivanovskoye, within the urban district of Chernogolovka, 40 km from Moscow, you will find a wonderful but little-known technical museum, called the Military Technical Museum. It…

World War II. Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Germans set up a camp called “Hope”, a site of medical experiments on children. Twins are designated as experimental subjects. So when one of the…

ARTICLE BY: NICK JACOBELLIS The Springfield Armory Mil Spec Model 1911 is clearly an ungraded version of the original “plain Jane” design. Unlike the original G.I or Government issue 1911,…

S.C. Gwynne’s study of the final year of the American Civil War illustrates the escalating brutality of the conflict as the Union sought to subdue the Confederacy by striking directly…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 18th Book Review of the Year!! I read this book as I began a cross Pacific Trek, first in Hawaii and then…

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.John McCrae World War I forever…

World War II Short film, “Esperanca”, tells the story of an often overlooked subject. The Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War 2. After being separated from his unit during the…

Published by Tense Moment Publishing, They Are Only Gone If They Are Forgotten – is the story of one of the original companies with the 82nd Airborne Division, 505th Combat…

show”, as many referred to MGM, that the studio reserved for the likes of Greta Garbo, JeanHarlow, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner. Donald Bogle, naturally, knows that Lena, regardless ofbeing…

An excellent book on the retrograde operations for Dunkirk in 1940. The Germans made a huge mistake by letting the British, French, and Belgium warriors escape by sea. This could…

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper’s immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-Day brings all the terrors…

to the tastes of a certain kind of audience,” writes Robin in a brilliant Introduction. No holds arebarred in terms of honest and frank perspectives.Sander’s diaries offer a totally genuine…

Summary: A great new book from Casemate that covers the behind the scenes planning and operations for Desert One. These Special Operators infiltrated Tehran, rented vans and transport vehicles, stored…

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I liked this book, even though it can’t quite tell the story as fully as I thought necessary. Maybe the book I was looking for would have to be a…

Review By Martin Koenigsberg The Soviets might have been the first to experiment with Parachute Infantry, but it was the Nazis who first used it tactically- with the feats in…

The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the most pivotal battles in the Civil War. It’s considered a turning point, because after it was over, the Union gained the momentum…

depended entirely on his unit’s unique “newpaper’s” second-hand accounts of how it was overthere.For the truly interested in wartime journalism, as this reviewer is having been editor of hisEdison High…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg British General Allenby was given a real challenge late in WWI. The Army that he had taken Jerusalem with in 1917 was needed on the Western…

Would the history of the twentieth century have taken a different turn if the World War I Battle of Tannenberg had ended in a Russian victory rather than defeat? When…

Every seasoned hunter is well aware of the strength of 10mm ammunition. These rounds are primarily used in competition or for hunting, and they are more than capable of taking…

Excerpted from HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, by S.C. Gwynne. Copyright © 2019 by Samuel C. Gwynne.  Excerpted with permission…

Being there . . . flying with “high-air heroes” in “bent-wings birds”, the F4U Corsairs to rescue from the sea and return to base America’s most precious treasures, her young…

Published by Casemate Publishers and Savas Beatie This weekend is the 159th anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg and thus it seems like an excellent time to review two new…

Being there . . . . in the heart of hell, the heroical “Bloody Omaha”, a beach of valor and gallantry, on that D-Day, 6 June 1944, 78 years ago…

Post by Moon Mullins Here is something from my publisher regarding my most recent book (left) and my first book (right). Both are available 30% off from Pen and Sword.-…

General Matthew B. Ridgway’s experiences as an airborne commander in Word War 2 provided the mindset and experience he needed to be successful when he assumed command of 8th Army…

Operation Totalize by Tim Saunders. Published by Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK, 2019, 276 pages. The author, Tim Saunders, has written OPERATION TOTALIZE as part of the…

The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) and their work during World War II is the stuff of legends. Not only were these men fighting the Nazis, but they were fighting…

Whether you want the best handgun for women for personal defense, home defense, recreation, or competitive shooting, the gun should be comfortable and easy to handle. The best handguns are…

Although the tragedy at Arnhem and the failure of Operation Market Garden have been covered extensively here on Argunners.com and other websites it still remains a hot topic that draws…

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If you’re a gun owner, you know that few things are more satisfying than firing off a round from your favorite weapon. And if you’re looking for something new to…

Last night, film critic and aviation enthusiast Nathan Cragun, finally got to see the war movie Midway which was released a day earlier on November 8, 2019! I was super…

lives, Allied or their own, meant little or nothing. Another surprise was learning how justfeeding the often-accumulated countless horses seemed insurmountable. How did the Germantroops manage when it was common…

“The Doom of the Van Imhoff” is a Dutch World War II documentary which focuses on a naval disaster / crime that was kept silent for decades. In 1942 near…

Article by Commander Mark R Condeno (Philippine Navy)    On June 1939, the second Filipino Q-Boat arrived in Manila and was named “LUZON” after one of the three Island groups…

Most of the major military publishing companies in this country are not only registeringsurprisingly large sales after creating, then enlarging, very specific combat series, each with adozen or more selections,…

In Their Own Words: Writings of War Correspondent Don Matin and His 11-Year-Old Daughter Dorothy-An Intimate View of WWI. James Larrimore, editor. Self published, 2021. Hardcover, illustrated, 273pp. Review by…