Being there . . . . for the birth, growth, and development of the Midway Island atoll as a major20 th Century Pacific Ocean American naval base. Then, devote a few heart-throbbing hoursreading about the Battle of Midway, June 4 – 7, 1942, the turning point for our fledgling,occasionally naïve, campaign failures at the start…
Published by Casemate Publishers Robert C. Conner’s biographies of James Montgomery and Gordon Granger both go a long way in providing students of the American Civil War with balanced portraits of officers whose reputations are either distorted by fictional portrayals or overshadowed by better known soldiers. In the case of James Montgomery, if he is…
Being there . . . . to watch the high drama of the final months of World War II in Berlin – – the German conspiracy to exterminate the Fuhrer; the day and night bombing of the Nazi metropolis; Victory in Europe; and the Allied aftermath, especially the critical pursuit for the aviation secrets of…
As a jittery electorate endured the suspense of the 1860 election that would bring Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, Americans must have looked back upon their young nation’s history and wondered how their leaders had brought them to the Rubicon of civil war. North and South had been united in their fight for independence against…
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is a gigantic display of aeronautics and aerospace from over 100 years of flight. You can experience beautifully restored airplanes from every era of flight, learn about the way planes have changed throughout the years, and how they assisted in all of the wars America has been a part of…
When Colonel Samuel Jackson returned home to Apollo, Pennsylvania after fighting for the Union in the Civil War, he settled down to become a leading citizen in the community. His daughter Elizabeth married a man who owned a hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and whose father had also served in the Civil War. The hardware…
Being there . . . . with Yuletide on the horizon cascading toward us at record speed, best weshop now lest we’re left with only socks and smiles to present as gifts on the joyous morning ofthe year. Truly good reads are still available, but evaporating, nay, vanishing, quickly becausesavvy-shrew buyers know which military publishers…
“Biographies of the participants and studies of the Civil War itself, in part or as a whole, makeup the secondary sources. These are not only interesting and rewarding in their own right,filling in and deepening the over-all impression, but they also serve as a guide through thelabyrinth. I found biographies invaluable in my writings such…
Review by Christopher Eric (Moon) Mullins Carafano opens his story by highlighting the pre-war neglect of occupation planning, exposing a void in military doctrine and institutional mechanisms for coordinating with non-military organizations. This unpreparedness, Carafano argues, led U.S. Forces Austria to rely on familiar military tactics in the face of numerous challenges. In the aftermath…
Reviewed by Don DeNevi Publisher’s Summary: A chronological account of the battle with more than 200 photographs, including graphic images of the fighting and the huge naval bombardment. Review In the spring of 1944, the Allied focus of attention turned to the Mariana Islands, Guam, Saipan, and Tinian, which were close enough to Tokyo to…
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