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The Springfield model 1903 variants and the M1 Garand

Article by: Nick Jacobellis The bolt action Springfield Rifle Model 1903, the M1903 Modified, the M1903A3 and the M1903A4 were chambered in 30.06 caliber and first saw combat during the…

The Miraculous Battle of Dunkirk in Cinema

Dunkirk is set to be one of 2017s biggest blockbusters, with a star studded cast that includes Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, and Harry Styles. It is set to…

Battle of the Bulge – Images of War

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 15th Book Review of the Year!! I was psyched to come across a copy of this book at a Thrift Store (Charity Shop)…

R Parol Long Range Desert Group

Being there . . . . as promised, among PEN & SWORD MILITARY – CASEMATE’s recent arrival onthis reviewer’s front porch of five of its latest hot off the presses…

The Croatian Army pistol that became a commercial success in the US

The Springfield Armory XD and XDM Article and Research by Nick Jacobellis   In the 1990s the IM Metal Company of Croatia developed a striker fired 9mm pistol for the Croatian Army that…

Messerschmitt Bf 19; Luftwaffe in the North African Campaign; Stuka-Pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel

“STUKA-PILOT HANS ULRICH RUDEL – His Life Story in Words and Photographs”, by GuntherJust. Schiffer MILITARY HISTORY Publishing, Ltd.: 1990, 292 pages, 9”x 11 ½”, hardcover;$59.95. Visit, www.schifferbooks.com.No publisher in…

All About ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand

You may know that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the reason that World War I was begun, but who was he really? And why did his assassination spark one of the…

Writing the Wild Frontier

A. Michener, Larry McMurtry (thanks, Larry, I’ve watcher “Lonesome Dove” 14,952 times thusfar, and will do so again after tennis this morning), Wallace Stenger, Charles Portis, EdwardAbbey, Jack Schaefer, A.B.…

2SAS – Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II

Book by Gavin Mortimer Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS – pioneering founders of modern special forces.…

How the German High Command Supported the Bolsheviks in World War I

In 1917, Germany was at war not only with Russia, but the United States, Great Britain, and France. Those enemies gave Germany’s army two fronts in Western and Eastern Europe.…