REVIEW: US Army Rangers 1898-2015 – Panama to Afghanistan
Elite Series 212 Each book in the Elite series focuses on a single army or elite unit, military tactics or a group of famous commanders. Military uniforms, insignia and equipment…
Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms & Equipment From the War Over the Western Front in WWI.
Mark Hillier. Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms & Equipment From the War Over the Western Front in WWI. Yorkshire, UK: Frontline Books, 2020. Hardcover. Illustrated. 268 pages. Review by…
The Arab Israeli War of Attrition 1967-73
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 90th(!!) Book Review of the Year!!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6045165785In the wake of the Six Day war in 1967, the Israelis were ecstatic about both the recovery…
Ypres, and the In Flanders Fields Museum
When I was last in the beautifully restored town of Ypres, I visited the In Flanders Fields museum. Anyone versed in First World War history is familiar with LCol John…
Retreat to Leningrad
surrender of what remained of his 6 th Army at Stalingrad, and his sensational defeat of hisarmored reserves in the fields outside of Kursk. Hitler refused to believe, but intuitively…
German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann; German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille
KNOWN AS “THE ALLIES’ SKY-HIGH HEROES”, OUR VICTORIOUS WWII PILOTS OVER BRITAIN,EUROPE, AND THE MEDITERREAN WERE THE FIRST TO ADMIT THEY HAD NO MONOPOLY ONVALOR DURING THE AIR COMBAT – –…
Army Combat Medics in the Vietnam War
Being there . . . this time in South Vietnam, side by side, with nine U.S. combat medics whodiscuss their highly trained professional experiences battling the near deaths of Americansoldiers,…
The War of 1812; Russia’s Wars in Chechnya
“THE WAR OF 1812”, by Carl Benn. Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: 2024, 144pages, softcover, 6” x 8 ¼”, $29.“RUSSIA’S WARS IN CHECHNYA 1994-2009”, by Mark Galeotti. Osprey Publishing/BloomsburyPublishing Plc: 2024,…
Epidemics and the American Military
Being there . . . . suddenly for a startling new book from the Naval Institute Press that exploresand examines the roles our military played in not only controlling diseases…
Luftwaffe Efficiency & Promotion Reports Volumes 1 and 2
In World War II Europe, 1 September 1939 – 3 May 1945, 1785, Luftwaffe officers andenlisted men won the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross – the highest decoration for…
