Gavin at War; Guderian 1941
Of course, praise for this book has been far ranging, arriving from a vast multitude of militarymen, in particular. Perhaps, the best of them all was written by Daniel P.…
How To Cite Argunners
To cite one of our articles, in your work(s), copy the complete reference as below: Article title in quotation marks – Author’s name – Argunners Magazine Copyright date and company…
Island at War (2004)
[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1: Eve of the War Episode 2: Living with the Enemy Episode 3: To Catch a Spy Episode 4: Strange Mercies Episode 5: Unexpected Revelations…
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin
A STORY OF NO GUNS, NO ENGINES, AND NO SECOND CHANCES“BROTHERHOOD OF THE FLYING COFFIN – – The Glider Pilots of World War II”, by ScottMcGaugh. Osprey Publishing/Bloomsbury Publishing Plc:…
Ofitserskie zheny (2015)
[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 [/junkie-toggle] Title…
An interview with author Jos Groen
Ben: When did you first develop an interest in WW2? Jos: WWII was never far away when I grew up. My parents were teenagers during WWII and at school, the…
Clean Sweep
In “Clean Sweep”, Tom has collected first-hand accounts from the WWII participants overthe past 50 years, meeting pilots such as the legendary “Hub” Zemke, Don Blakeslee, and ChuckYeager, as well…
Bez prava na vybor also known as Kasym (2013)
Based on the true story of Kasym Kaysenov, a famous Soviet scout and officer of special reconnaissance, a national hero of Kazakhstan and a man of exceptional bravey, who fought…
Crossings (1986)
[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 [/junkie-toggle] Title Crossings Country USA Production Co. Aaron Spelling Productions Director Cast Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer Language English…
To Save an Army
Being there . . . . between June and late-August 1942, to not only observe Herr Hitler’s massive,inexorable combined tank and Luftwaffe force smash and crush their way a thousand…
Close to the Enemy (2016)
[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 It is the end of the Second World War and Lotte and her father Dieter, a recently captured German scientist, arrive in England. Captain…
Danger UXB (1979)
[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1: Dead Man’s Shoes Episode 2: Unsung Heroes Episode 3: Just Like a Woman Episode 4: Cast Iron Killer Episode 5: The Silver Lining Episode…
Title: Sport and the Third Reich, Volumes 1 and 2
Being there . . . . . when sports in Hitler’s Germany served a double purpose – – to establish the healthiest and most robust people in Europe, while simultaneously…
Cheating Hitler
either the pain of imprisonment, torture, and death. The best estimate as to how many mayhave assisted the evading Allied airmen is 100,000.There is no question as to how important,…
The Road to Dungannon; Black Slaveowners; British Fortifications Through the Reign of Richard III
embraced slavery as a viable economic system and that they, like their white counterparts,exploited the labor of slaves on their farms and in their businesses. “Who wants to read ‘stuff’like…
Spitfire Photo-Recce Units of World War 2
Thus, in this less than a 100-page layout, print and photos, some close-ups in color of theplane itself, PR specialist Andrew Fletcher details the important part played by the smallnumber…
Battleship Tirpitz
Griffith, and the narrative skill of author Vincent P. O’Hara, is more than an enticing, relishingaccount of a major British victory and enormous enemy loss. It is testimony to the…
Clearing the way
official publications. Perused and read as a group, they provide detailed insight into the workand skills of the engineers. If curious how to build field fortifications, laying and defusing mines,constructing…
No Moon as Witness; Nazi Spies & Collaborators in Britain 1939-1945
famous of all, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler’s deputy who both he and Hitler feared, and endingthe Fuhrer’s precious atomic bomb program by destroying the heavy water plant at Vemork,Norway.Meanwhile, OSS operatives…
The Winter War
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 2nd Book Review of the Year!! Ostensibly a History of the the Winter War, but also a Cold War artifact, this 1992 Printing…
B-26 Maurader
Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 4th Book Review of the Year!! I found this a very informative read, although it did not answer all my queries about…
Dark Water, Starry Waters
and Admirals, Nimitz, Halsey, Ainsworth, and Spruance, and so, so many other top American“Sea Brains”, heroes all.The years of the Pacific War were brought to a close with the unconditional…
Historian who stole almost 300 Dog Tags from NARA sentenced to prison
French historian, Antonin DeHays, who stole almost 300 U.S. Dog Tags from fallen Airmen and around 134 other items, which included identification cards, a bible, and pieces of downed US…
Abraham Lincoln and his Times
It isn’t surprising that to this very day, and hour, interest in Abraham Lincoln as president,politician, commander-in-chief of the military, family, husband, father, and religious man, hassteadily increased since his…
Hollywood Black Agent Josephine
– and the way those films and film stars looked both in the past and to later generations.“HOLLYWOOD BLACK – The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers”, by Donald Bogle, Foreword…
Memories of an S.O.E. Historian, S O E in Denmark
Together, these facts made communication between resistance cells difficult and meant thatthere were no natural bases from which guerrilla operations could be mounted. Nevertheless,thanks to supply drops of explosives, weapons…
Woodrow Wilson’s Wars; At the Dawn of Airpower; The Battle of Leyte Gulf at 75
foreign policy, however, Wilson took an active role overseeing American diplomats.His approach toward the military followed a similar pattern, though sometimes commanders’actions affected Wilson’s diplomatic goals. Benbow focuses on these…
Men of Armor; Foreign Panthers
struggling to survive a myriad of battlefield challenges and victories against German SS tanksthat were heavier, better armed and protected. What was once envisioned as a warfare ofsweeping formations directed…
How the Cold War Affected Education in the United States
The effects of the cold war on America transcended every aspect of life, impacting revolutionary changes to prepare for an anticipated impending nuclear war. It was a battle of superiority…
VOTE: Best Weapon of WWII
Infantry weapons of World War 2 began mostly as the standard issue weapons that had been used in World War 1, but by the end of the war, numerous modern…
Douglas XB-19, P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses, Operation Jericho, The Ruhr 1943, SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-Sen
“P-47 THUNDERBOLT VS GERMAN FLAK DEFENSES – Western Europe 1943 – 45”, by JonathanBernstein. Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: 2021, 80 pages, sc; $22. Visit,www.ospreypublishing.com.“OPERATION JERICHO – Freeing the French…
The Luftwaffe; The Day Fighters; The Night Fighters
With Christmas Eve and Day upon us, Schiffer Publishing (who else?) offers numerous WWIIclassic enemy aviation books as perfect gifts, especially for the libraries of the aviation-enthusiasts. For fast orders…
M&P Bodyguard 380 Review
The M&P Bodyguard 380 is a subcompact and sleek semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Smith and Wesson. It is designed for concealed carry, both for personal protection and off-duty use. In…
Scorched Earth
Front. So, Carrell’s “Scorched Earth” opens with a thorough analysis of why the German tankdivisions, and Wehrmact and SS groups, were badly managed.This second volume of the most complete history…
Righting the Longstreet Record at Gettysburg; Funny Thing About the Civil War
scholarship, standard, revised, or controversial, the two above titles will please, not necessarilyin rapturous emotion, but in gratifying new insight and information an inordinate few knowanything about. How much more…
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945; Me 262 Northwest Europe 1944-45
on a T-34-85 or IS-2 “heavy” and rumbles you from the Oder-Vistula beginning in January 1945through the battles for Budapest to how the Axis was beaten back into Prague and…
REVIEW: The Sniper Anthology – Snipers of the Second World War
The impressive list of contributors to The Sniper Anthology includes Mark Spicer writing on Harry M. Furness, the last surviving British sniper who went ashore on D-Day; Martin Pegler, who…
Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022
and the Production Code office, as well as the critiques of film reviewers, historians and militaryfigures from both sides of the raging island and jungle fighting. Equally interesting, Bobexamines the…
Hitler’s Mountain
discusses the geography, history, and climate of Berchtesgaden as well as Hitler’s originalacquaintance with the Bavarian Alps.In 2006, when this masterwork was first published, Mitchell wrote, “My range is wide…
Remains of WWII Luftwaffe plane discovered in Masuria
Parts found (Credit: Muzeum Ziemi Piskiej) The remains of what is believed to be a Luftwaffe plane have been discovered in the Pisz Forest in Masuria, northern Poland. The Muzeum…
Grave of Fallen World War I Soldier Discovered 100 Years after death
The grave of 2nd Lieutenant Reuben Parkes who served in the 34th Australian Infantry Battalion has finally been found, 100 years after his death. The discovery was a joint effort of…
All Eyes on Antietam: The Bloodiest Day in American History
In 1879, speaking to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy, Civil War General William T. Sherman said, “Some of you young men think that war is all glamour…
Dynamic Dames – 50 leading ladies who made history
“HEY, FILM FANS OF YESTERYEAR, HOW ABOUT CURLING UP WITH ANY ONE OF 50 ‘DYNAMICDAMES’ WHO MADE MOVIE HISTORY . . . . AH, SHALL WE SAY TO REMINISCE .…
The Soviet Army’s High Commands
HOW STALIN’S ZHUK (‘the Beetle’) CREATED FIVE HIGH MILITARY COMMANDS TO SAVEMOSCOW, RUSSIA, AND EUROPE FROM HITLER AND HIS ODIOUS NAZISM “In war,” Napoleon said, “it is not men, but…
The Battle of Midway and Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy
“THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY – The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy’s Greatest Victory”,edited by Thomas C. Hone. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD 21402: originally published in2013, republished in…
Messerschmitt
A 1450 km, or 900-mile one way flight without refueling? Just the kind of aircraft Britainneeded for bombing flights over Germany! After WWII, Hess spent the rest of his life…
Compilation of Incredible Videos from Unearthed Russian WWII Tanks
Below you will find a compilation of hand picked incredible videos from Russian World War II tanks which were unearthed in various countries of the formerly known Soviet Union and…
The Human Face of D-Day; The Plot of Shame
through to liberate Europe. Keith, being the hero he is, conducted terrain and landscape walksthroughout Normandy for over 40 years always accompanied with veterans, active-dutymilitary, and local French civilians. His…
