Clearing the way
official publications. Perused and read as a group, they provide detailed insight into the workand skills of the engineers. If curious how to build field fortifications, laying and defusing mines,constructing…
No Moon as Witness; Nazi Spies & Collaborators in Britain 1939-1945
famous of all, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler’s deputy who both he and Hitler feared, and endingthe Fuhrer’s precious atomic bomb program by destroying the heavy water plant at Vemork,Norway.Meanwhile, OSS operatives…
The Winter War
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 2nd Book Review of the Year!! Ostensibly a History of the the Winter War, but also a Cold War artifact, this 1992 Printing…
B-26 Maurader
Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 4th Book Review of the Year!! I found this a very informative read, although it did not answer all my queries about…
Dark Water, Starry Waters
and Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Ainsworth, and Spruance, and so, so many other top American“Sea Brains”, heroes all.The years of the Pacific War were brought to a close with the unconditional…
Historian who stole almost 300 Dog Tags from NARA sentenced to prison
French historian, Antonin DeHays, who stole almost 300 U.S. Dog Tags from fallen Airmen and around 134 other items, which included identification cards, a bible, and pieces of downed US…
Abraham Lincoln and his Times
It isn’t surprising that to this very day, and hour, interest in Abraham Lincoln as president,politician, commander-in-chief of the military, family, husband, father, and religious man, hassteadily increased since his…
Hollywood Black Agent Josephine
– and the way those films and film stars looked both in the past and to later generations.“HOLLYWOOD BLACK – The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers”, by Donald Bogle, Foreword…
Memories of an S.O.E. Historian, S O E in Denmark
Together, these facts made communication between resistance cells difficult and meant thatthere were no natural bases from which guerrilla operations could be mounted. Nevertheless,thanks to supply drops of explosives, weapons…
Woodrow Wilson’s Wars; At the Dawn of Airpower; The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75
foreign policy, however, Wilson took an active role overseeing American diplomats.His approach toward the military followed a similar pattern, though sometimes commanders’actions affected Wilson’s diplomatic goals. Benbow focuses on these…
