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The Central Air Force Museum first opened in 1960, on the Monino Air Force base close to Moscow, with a collection of 14 aircraft. Today, the Central Air Force Museum has more than 170 aircraft, together with some other exhibits on display in the museum buildings, making it one of the largest aviation museum in…

Somewhere in Southern Europe stands a giant bunker, build within a mountain, that once was a massive, busy complex for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Build during the Cold War era, more specifically around the grounding of the Warsaw Pact, this bunker complex was a home for somewhere around 250 people, who were daily active…

Published by Pen & Sword, available from Casemate Publishers Freely I Served is a remarkable combat memoir by one an underappreciated World War Two commander. Stanislaw Sosabowski served as an officer in the Polish Army for over twenty years and led an infantry brigade in the defense of Warsaw at the beginning of WW2. After…

Before the League of Nations, the United Nations, and the European Union, there was the Congress of Vienna. This series of meetings lasted from November 1814 through June 1815 and mostly consisted of discussions between the leaders of several countries in an attempt to keep war from breaking out again. Before the Congress of Vienna,…

Schiffer Publishing Company – Polish Air Force Association, Original Copyright, 1998, 9” x 12”, 410 b/w photographs, maps, 336 pages, $59.95 Publisher’s Summary:   After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force, flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg This book is an interesting discussion of the present mess in Eastern Europe- but I’m not sure I agree with all the author’s assumptions, nor many of his conclusions. Paul Moorcroft is a prolific author and academic- from a base in Journalism and a recent focus on conflict history. He’s trying…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 90th(!!) Book Review of the Year!!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6045165785In the wake of the Six Day war in 1967, the Israelis were ecstatic about both the recovery of Jerusalem and their massive new buffer zone between their borders and those of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Surely they would be able to trade…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 91st Book Review of the Year!!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6047452615Reading this book now- with a Russian instigated war in the Ukraine and many areas of Africa and the Middle East dealing with Russian aggressions- it seems the euphoria over the “end of the Cold War” might have been misplaced. It’s basically a…

course, had already begun nearly two years before. But that Spring of 1943, progressiveincineration of the entire Jewish population of Europe was hoped for and eagerly ordered bythe Fuhrer himself. In the Warsaw ghetto, which had been appointed the chief clearinghousefor the massacres, the victims quickly procured arms from unreliable elements in the satellitearmies and…

Being there . . . . on September 15, 1939, with brave, young Lucyna B. Radlo and her family when Hitler’s Panzer Corps met Stalin’s Shock Army troops per the secret Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement to crush Poland, including Lucyna’s hometown of Brest Litovsk . . . “BETWEEN TWO EVILSBy Lucyna B. RadloThe World War II Memoir…