From the Battlefield to the Big Screen, Summer Movies, Danger on the Silver Screen
In Melody Foreman’s well-crafted, thoroughly engrossing treatise depicting the wartimeexperiences of four movie superstars, she welcomes us to look closely behind the lives of thestars who appeared in a host…
A Mighty Fortress; Bomb Group; In Furious Skies
of the famous Eighth Air Force consisted of its bombardment groups, each equipped withscores of heavily armed four-engine bombers. These Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses andConsolidated B-24 Liberators were soon punching…
Fast-Attack Submarines
Successors to the US Navy’s Los Angeles class fast-attack submarines (presented in volume1), the Seawolf and Virginia class SSNs are presented here from their initial design andconstruction, through testing and…
Twelve Years With Hitler
Veteran’s Association, and edited by the most-able, brilliant Hans Quassowski, “ . . . a man whowith the zeal, persistence, knowledge, and untiring patience to approach veterans again andagain in…
Jagdgeschwader 53
JAGDGESCHWADER 53, or as it was better known, the “Pik As” (Ace of Spades) Geschwader,was one of the oldest German fighter units of World War II with its origins dating…
Hitler’s Air Defences
For author Stephan Wynn, the critical question of his book’s systematic exposition orargument is, “Were antiaircraft defenses such as Flak guns, barrage balloons, searchlight unitsand fighter aircraft effective in beating…
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…
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…
