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Hitler’s Traitors

Having read Hugh Trevor-Roper’s “The Last Ten Days of Hitler” as seriously enthusiasticWWII buffs, or casual, curious readers, those of us in our teens, or in our 20’s and 30’s,…

In the Service of the Emperor; The Devil’s Workshop

“THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP – – A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation”, by Adolf Burger.Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, dist. by Casemate Publishing: first publishedin 2009,…

REVIEW: Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman’s Year in Vietnam

Peter Clark’s year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was…

World War I and the Medication of Jazz Music

Life before World War I was more difficult than what it  was like after the war. Before the war women were mostly only seen as housewives, if something was to…

Death of Sean Luketina during the Grenada Invasion in 1983

Sergeant Sean Luketina was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, 82nd Signal Battalion, Alpha Company, Assault CP. He was seriously wounded in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury, 27 October…

The Soviet Baltic Offensive, 1944-45

WHEN HITLER’S WEHRMACHT, PANZER DIVISIONS, AND ELITE SS DIVISIONS WERE SENTREELING BACK TO BERLIN BY HISTORY’S GREATEST BLITZKRIEG, SOVIET STYLE Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “THE SOVIET BALTIC…

Hitler’s Court; I was Hitler’s Pilot

In “HITLER’S COURT”, author Heike Gortemaker asks probing questions all WWII buffs havebeen asking for decades, “Who did Der Fuhrer include in his inner circle, not on the periphery ofit,…

Hitler’s Last Witness; Living with Hitler; Hitler’s Girl

There is still a great deal to be learned about Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945). Had he notsimultaneously chomped down on a cyanide capsule while pulling the trigger on his…

Dunkirchen 1940

– the Navy has toiled night and day, without sleep for scores of naval officers and men. Theypersist. The work of rescue never pauses. “The Navy,” says one observer, “is…

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

“Churchill was worried that a stalemate would set in similar to that of World War I or, morerecently, Anzio . . . . The Germans quickly took advantage of Caen’s…