Rare Vivid Accounts of D – Day, the Greatest Invasion in World History Three important new WWII books reviewed and recommended by Don DeNevi ”COSSAC – – Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation Overlord” by Stephen C. Kepher. Naval Institute Press, Studies in Naval History and Sea Power; 301 pp. “Normandy …
Be there . . . when General Eisenhower said, “O.K., let’s go!” Read More »
David Bilton. The Badges of Kitchener’s Army. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. Hardcover, illus., 351pp. Review by Peter L. Belmonte Kitchener’s Army was a term used to refer to the men who enlisted in the British Army beginning in August 1914 at the call of British Secretary of State for War, Herbert …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just Finished my 53rd Book Review of the Year!! The 1941 Australian Government knew that Rabaul, the Anchorage on the northern tip of the island of New Britain was important. They had taken the Island off the German Empire in WWI, and were happily exploiting the local copra trade and administering …
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just Finished my 52nd Book Review of the Year!! When Edward Crankshaw wrote Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny in 1956, he well understood the subject. A veteran of the British Foreign Office, Intelligence Services, and a journalist of note, he was fluent in both German and Russian, and knew both the Nazi …
Just Finished my 50th Book Review of the Year!! Review by Martin Koenigsberg Written in 1988, The Price of Admiralty is the Military writer John Keegan’s Naval Warfare history, a companion to his great Face of Battle and Mask of Command , books about land warfare and command, control and strategy. To tell the story …
Once Unheralded McFarland & Company Now ALeading Military Publishing In America Reviewed by Don DeNevi World over, no matter who writes them, precise, truthful, passionate, and compassionate books of war are rare. In America today, of the dozens of publishers who feature them, less than a handful have been able to emerge from the shadows …
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Being there, fighting alongside the Polish people – Eye-witnessing World War II History In Words and With Photographs By Don DeNevi For readers who revere enduring World War II literature as much as this Argunner reviewer, a series of features recommending newly published books focusing upon events long forgotten. neglected, or still cloaked in mystery …
Publisher’s Summary: Anyone interested in WWII Airborne Operations will want to read this book. The fact that William Yarborough wrote it should sell it alone. He was one of the founding fathers of the U.S. Airborne and Special Forces and he was there from the very beginning. Not many people know about the 509th Parachute …
Warship Builders – An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Ship Building, 1922-1945, by Thomas Heinrich (Naval Institute Press, 2021, 346pp, $29). Liberty Factory – The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipyards, By by Peter J Marsh (Seaforth Publishing, 2021, 256PP, $40). Reviews by Don DeNevi Publisher’s Summary: Warship Builders is the first scholarly study …
Publisher’s Summary: A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment.
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