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If you have ever hear someone say, I can write my name with that “gun,” they are likely referring to the M3 or M3A1, also known as The Grease Gun. While this comment isn’t meant to be taken literally, it is meant to describe the noticeable slow rate of fire, that this fully automatic submachine produces when …
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South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword, 2020. Hardcover, illustrated, 320pp. Review by Peter L. Belmonte In this book, Terry C. Treadwell, an established British aviation author and journalist, desires to cover the history of “United States aviators and their aircraft in the First World War and in their little-known involvement in the Polish/Soviet War of …
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. . . and, in Great Britain, joining the Royal Air Force (RAF) to thwart the pending German invasion and defeat the Luftwaffe “blitz” with the Supermarine Spitfire. Both aircrafts have gone down in military aviation annals as cornerstones in achieving critical air superiority in World War II.
Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi. “From the Realm of A Dying Sun”, by renown military historian, Douglas E. Nash, Sr., and published by incomparable Casemate, is an ultimate Christmas gift for the serious war reader. Bar none, and simply put, this strikingly excellent series of three combat dramas on the tactical …
A multi-dimensional view of one of Britain’s most distinguished officers Published by Helion & Company, LTD, available from Casemate Publishers The enduring image of Field Marshal Kitchener of Khartoum stares down through the decades since the First World War, index finger thrust towards the viewer enjoining him to action with the words “Your Country Needs …
A novel of an artilleryman’s epic stand Published by Casemate Publishers American authors from Stephen Crane to Michael Shaara have examined the drama and danger of Civil War battlefields through fiction. Such writers set a high standard for combining history and literature. David H. Jones joins their ranks with Hold at All Hazards. The book …
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Review by Peter L. Belmonte Night flying and aerial bombardment were both in their infancy during World War I. Contemporary airplanes lacked the navigation instruments that would have made those missions so much easier and safer. The men who conducted night bombing raids were, then, truly aviation pioneers. Thus this memoir of such a pilot …
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