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                                       Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi. “From the Realm of A Dying Sun”, by renown military historian, Douglas E. Nash, Sr., and published by incomparable Casemate, is an ultimate Christmas gift for the serious war reader.      Bar none, and simply put, this strikingly excellent series of three combat dramas on the tactical…

List with all known World War 2 themed mini-series and television series which were produced. Click on a series title to find more information and media about that particular series. Disclaimer: We still have to add various World War 2 mini-series and television series, so the list is still incomplete. Also we’re looking for reviews,…

The sun sparkled on the words that had struck so much terror… Arbeit Macht Frei. Ahead of me were brick buildings that could have come from a college campus. They were former Polish army barracks and I, was at Auschwitz. The few birch trees adjacent to the sign were still shedding their leaves. Two adjectives…

Being there . . . among the countless other World War II Eastern Front buffs who havevicariously lived through, fought on the outskirts of, and miraculously survived the 900-daySiege of Leningrad, the 1943 – 1944 “Hero City”. During those two years alone (really 1941 –1944), it is estimated more than a million non-combatants died of…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Tactical Reconnaissance is information that the ground soldiers and the frontline targetters can use- so this book is about attempts to overfly the Warsaw Pact and Chinese territory during the Cold War. Rather than the U-2s, SR-71s and satellites that may be more famous- this is about RF-80s, RF-86s, RF-84s, RB-57s,…

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, tactical situation on the ground, Ukrainian defense, and NATO. Additional topics include refugees, internally displaced personnel, humanitarian efforts, cyber, and information operations. Photo: Special Forces Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group deploy light tactical vehicles from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from…

Marie Curie – Second from right Marie Curie may be one of the world’s best-known scientists, but some of her most important work took place not in the laboratory, but on the front lines of battle during World War One. Marie Sklodowska Curie started life in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, but in 1891, she left…

Three Spellbinding Authoritative New Books Describe Nazi Germany’s Death Throes Reviewed and Recommended by Don DeNevi Millions upon millions upon millions of deaths deserve notices of sad recognition, biographical sketches, especially of the helpless and innocent, but none the vehement obituaries of the Third Reich and its ominous prodigy and his wicked, evil, sycophantic bootlickers…

“I bow my head before the victims of the attack on Wielun. I bow my head before the Polish victims of Germany’s tyranny. And I ask forgiveness,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, commemorating the outbreak of World War II, 80 years ago on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Soon after, on September 17,…

Andrew Rawson’s book covers the struggles and experiences of the Polish Forces and people before, during and after the second World War to include the invasion of Poland, the extermination of the “intelligentsia”, the suppression of the Catholic Poles, slave labor, interrogations, and the massacre in the Katyn Forest of Polish Officers and senior Non…