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…
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…
When the Shooting Stopped August 1945
WW II WAS OVER, AND ALL OVER THE WORLD THE KISSING STARTED. BUT WAS IT REALLYOVER?Brilliant new OSPREY PUBLISHING book arrives in time to give as a perfect Christmas giftReviewed…
The Sound of Hope
A. Rutkowski, Council for Protection of FightAnd Martyrdom Monuments, Warszawa, Poland, “A Tribute” “THE SOUND of HOPE –Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust andWorld War II”, by…
The Mighty Eighth and Ace in a Day
“THE MIGHTY EIGHTH – – A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth AirForce 1942-45”, by Michael Craig & the Military Gallery Commemorative Committee,distributed by CASEMATE…
Fellini – – The Sixties
In his superb article, “A Religion of Film”, TIME, September 20, 1963, critic Brad Darrach wrote,“Imagination minus taste – in “I Vitelloni” (1953), he put together a conventional but faultlesssocial…
