Editorial Team
The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, June 6, 1944, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. Film The Longest Day Country USA Director Ken Annakin, Andrew…
Longstreet at Gettysburg; Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War; More Than Just Grit
In “BLACK UNION SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR”, Hondon Hargrove refutes the ugly historicalslander that black soldiers did not fight for their emancipation from slavery. Initially rejected intheir enthusiasm to…
The Story Behind the World War II “Kilroy was here”
There are many timeless images that evoke the patriotism of World War II: posters of Uncle Sam and Rosie the Riveter; signs urging the public to buy war bonds; the…
Blackboards and Bomb Shelters – The Perilous Journey of Americans in China during World War II
Being there . . . . in the summer of 1941 when three Yale graduates in the Yale-China Association traveled to Yuanling, China, to teach high school students English as…
No Mission is Impossible – Israeli SF
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 16th Book Review of the Year!! When I found this book at a thrift store over a year ago, I picked it up…
REVIEW: Special Forces Berlin- Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite 1956-1990
An excellent history of “Det A”. A Special Forces unit with about 100 personnel stationed in Berlin which at that time was in the middle of East Germany! This unit…
SAS Secret War in Southeast Asia
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 17th Book Review of the Year!! I really enjoyed this book as I had been looking for books on the Conflict generally –…
Aircraft of the Luftwaffe Fighter Aces Volume I and Volume II
After the Armistice in November, 1918, that brought fighting to end the “Great War”, the“war to end all wars”, Germany, under harsh restrictions, was forbidden all military aircraft. Adozen years…
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following the landing of US forces on Omaha Beach, Normandy on June 6, 1944, Captain Miller receives a new mission… a rescue operation to find and retrieve the last remaining…
The Zookeeper’s Wife – A War Story Movie
Based on a book of the same name by Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife follows the lives of Jan and Antonina Zabinski. The book itself was based on an unpublished…
