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.
Reviewed by Don DeNevi Publisher’s Summary: BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers— the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the four powers were …
Author – Nick Jacobellis Another superb Nick Jacobellis historical fiction that captured my attention from cover to cover. To me it reads like a movie script and I can see this becoming a Hallmark-type of movie. The motif here is good versus evil but with a surprising twist at the end when you find out …
The LRP/LRDG was created by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, a British Army Officer who spent the better part of a decade exploring the Libyan Desert before the outbreak of
hostilities in World War II. Based on his experiences as a peacetime explorer, Bagnold
envisioned the need for the British Army to deploy a motorized reconnaissance force, to
patrol the Libyan Desert in any future conflict that took place in the Middle East. In
many respects, Bagnold’s plan revitalized a concept that was effectively used in World
War I, when the British Light Car Patrols protected the Egyptian frontier from the
Turkish and German backed Senussi in the Western Desert.
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