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A Giant Abandoned Cold War Bunker in Southern Europe

Somewhere in Southern Europe stands a giant bunker, build within a mountain, that once was a massive, busy complex for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Build during the Cold War…

Zerstorer Gruppe; Gabby A Fighter Pilot’s Life

Being there with Don DeNevi . . . . on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor ofthe German Reich via a Nazi–Nationalist coalition victory with immediate plans to…

Vortex Venom VS Vortex Viper

If you’re a gun lover, you know there are a lot of choices when it comes to optics. So, which one should you choose? We narrowed it down to two…

Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War 1902-1914 by Simon Batten

     The popular notion of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, as it prepared to embark for France in 1914, is of a small, professional Army comprised of regulars,…

Deanne Durbin in Hollywood; In Search of the Thin Man; Mr. Bojangles, Dance; Joan Crawford in Film Noir

Being there . . . . for one of my few cinema columns rather than continuing with introductionsto new titles about death and destruction during the seething hell of World…

Then & Now from the Battle of Arnhem in 1944

Koos Winkelman, an avid Dutch traveler and photographer, has made another great photographic Then & Now tribute, this time related to the Battle of Arnhem that occurred during Operation Market…

Weapons of War

     Charles Roberts work on the development and employment of the 37mm cannon by the United States is a straightforward and informative examination of the weapon in a variety of…

The Luzon Campaign-1945- Macarthur Returns

Review by Martin Koenigsberg When I got back from a trip to the Philippines- I knew I wanted to read this book next. The Philippines was my father’s campaign- and…

A Soldier once…and always

Hal Moore, “Leadership in Action” series from Casemate Publishing Descriptive events of the life and leadership role of Hal Moore. A lesson learned about the Vietnam War as well as…

Krasnaya Kapella (2004)

[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 – 16[/junkie-toggle] Title Krasnaya Kapella Country Russia Production Co. Rekun TV, Rizhskaja Kinostudia Creators Cast Andrey Ilin, Aleksey Gorbunov, Dmitriy Nazarov Language Russian English…