Frederick Douglass: The Slave That Freed the Slaves
Frederick Douglass was a great author, orator, statesman, a licensed preacher, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. He spoke internationally against slavery and fought for equal rights among…
Black Tulip
In their equally readable book, “Myth of the Eastern Front”, Ronald Smelser and Edward J.Davies II write on page 2, “After all, if the Germans were not only to be…
REVIEW: Take These Men – Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats
Cyril’s book, originally published in 1955, here republished in 2019 is a frank and candid look at the nuisances of tank warfare in North Africa during World War II. This…
Obituaries
2 Comments / Obituaries / By ARGunners Magazine Rudolf von Ribbentrop, son of Hitler’s foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, has passed away at the age of 98 on May 20,…
The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, June 6, 1944, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. Film The Longest Day Country USA Director Ken Annakin, Andrew…
Longstreet at Gettysburg; Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War; More Than Just Grit
In “BLACK UNION SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR”, Hondon Hargrove refutes the ugly historicalslander that black soldiers did not fight for their emancipation from slavery. Initially rejected intheir enthusiasm to…
The Story Behind the World War II “Kilroy was here”
There are many timeless images that evoke the patriotism of World War II: posters of Uncle Sam and Rosie the Riveter; signs urging the public to buy war bonds; the…
Blackboards and Bomb Shelters – The Perilous Journey of Americans in China during World War II
Being there . . . . in the summer of 1941 when three Yale graduates in the Yale-China Association traveled to Yuanling, China, to teach high school students English as…
No Mission is Impossible – Israeli SF
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 16th Book Review of the Year!! When I found this book at a thrift store over a year ago, I picked it up…
REVIEW: Special Forces Berlin- Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite 1956-1990
An excellent history of “Det A”. A Special Forces unit with about 100 personnel stationed in Berlin which at that time was in the middle of East Germany! This unit…
