Trailer of New War Movie “Der Hauptmann” – True Story of Willi Herold
This is based on the true story of Fallschirmjäger Willi Herold, who fought in Nettuno and Monte Cassino. He was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class in Salerno for destroying…
REVIEW: Joys of War – From the Foreign Legion, the SAS and into hell with PTSD
Book Review of Joys of War – From the French Foreign Legion, the SAS and into hell with PTSD by John-Paul Jordan, Pen and Sword Books. A striking reminder that…
TRAILER: Journey’s End – a New World War I Movie
The movie has been well received in cinema and various movie review websites such as RottenTomatoes, who rated it a 93% out of 100%! The DVD is set to be…
Secret of World War II: B-17 Lady Jeannette – Part 5
This final submission to Argunners covers the period after the crew of the “Lady Jeannette” & “226″ returns to England to when the men return to the USA. With additional information of…
The Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812
Despite it’s title, the War of 1812 actually lasted for several years. The Battle of Lake Erie is one of the most important naval battles of that war, because the…
REVIEW: Tango 1-1 – 9th Infantry Division LRRPs in the Vietnam Delta
An excellent book that covers 9th Infantry Division LRRPS deployments and missions by his team during the Vietnam War. The author Jim Thayer does an outstanding job of covering all…
Gavin at War
crawl from foxhole to foxhole to talk to his men to let them know he was with them. Wordscannot explain the love and pride I had, and will carry to…
Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed
The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed, (formerly Airborne Laser) weapons system now sits decommissioned at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The YAL-1…
REVIEW: The 51st (Highland) Division in the Great War by Colin Campbell
Book Review of The 51st (Highland) Division in the Great War – An Engine of Destruction, by Colin Campbell. The 51st Highland Division was officially formed in 1908 in a…
Being there . . . . to eyewitness a post-WW II poignant piece of unknown American history
An American Author Answers Americans Asking, “When can we go back to America?” Reviewed and Recommended by Don DeNevi “When Can We Go Back to America?”, by Susan Kamei, Foreword…
REVIEW: European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972–2017
Elite Series 220 Each book in the Elite series focuses on a single army or elite unit, military tactics or a group of famous commanders. Military uniforms, insignia and equipment…
Part Five of a 10- Part Series Celebrating America’s Best Military Publishers and Distributors
Being there . . . . with marvelously inspiring author-editor Esther Bonilla Read as she interviews 75 young Mexican Americans about their stories of fighting fiercely in Europe and the…
On the Austrian-Italian border at the Reissa Pass
On the Austrian-Italian border at the Reissa Pass. A patrol of the 324th Inf. Regt. 44th Inf. Div., Seventh Army, links up with troops of the 101th Mt. Div., Fifth…
Part six of a 10 part series Celebrating America’s best WWII publishers -Casemate Publishing Company
Being there . . . . in Hitler’s East Prussia field headquarters, the Wolfsschanze, after the attempt on his life in the Fall of 1944 . . . STARTLING NEW…
Flying with bomber men on missions to blast the enemy into smithereens . . .
BRAVE SUICIDAL DAYLIGHT RAIDS SPECTACULARLY EFFECTIVE Nonpareil Schiffer Military Aviation History Publisher, Best in the World, Does It Again In Clear Photos and Cogent Words! Reviewed and recommended by Don…
Being there . . . . 10 August, 1941 on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales anchored in Placentia Bay off the coast of Newfoundland when Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt who arrived earlier on board the USS McDougal for the risky Atlantic Conference that became the germ of the United Nations
HOW THE ATLANTIC CHARTER WRITTEN BY ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHJILL, BUT STRANGELY NEVER SIGNED, SAVED DEMOCRACY FROM HITLER, MUSSOLINI, AND TOJO A book reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “Roosevelt…
B-17 “Nine-o-Nine”: ATC Audio Released from Before and After Crash
LiveATC.com has publicized audio containing communications between the Air Traffic Control and B-17 “Nine-o-Nine” (N93012) prior to the crash. The audio reveals that the crew of B-17 “Nine-o-Nine” (identified as…
Part seven of a ten part series- 5th Fighter Command
Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “You buy ‘em, we’ll fly ‘em!” A 1942 WW II poster worth remembering . . . . “THE 5TH FIGHTER COMMAND IN WORLD…
THE 9MM SPRINGFIELD ARMORY SA-35 – A 21st CENTURY VERSION OF THE FAMOUS BROWNING HI POWER
Article by Nick Jacobellis While John Moses Browning crafted the original basic design, Dieudonne Saive of Fabrique National (FN), Herstal, Belgium is credited with completing the design that became the…
James Streckfuss. Eyes All Over the Sky: Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War
James Streckfuss. Eyes All Over the Sky: Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2016. Hardcover, illustrated, 239pp. Review by Peter L. Belmonte In this new…
Ghost Army – The Dummy Tanks of World War II
Deception was imperative during World War II and militaries would create fake soldiers, weaponry, vehicles and even entire towns. In this article I’ll be focusing on the ‘Dummy Tanks‘ of World…
Combat Divers
‘Charioteers’ they were called, and some slipped through the black waters in midgetsubmarines. They worked alone, in the dark, in enemy waters. When they started on a mission,they knew that…
Ultimate Movie Trivia Challenge; But Have You Read the Book?; Cinematic Cities New York; 52 Musee-See Movies; 20th Century-Fox; Summer Movies
“CINEMATIC CITIES NEW YORK – The Big Apple on the Big Screen”, by Christian Blauvelt. TCM,Turner Classic Movies, Running Press, Hachette Book Group: 2019, 5 ¼” x 8 ¼”, 167…
Rear Admiral Schley
2022). Williams – Ford, Military History Series, Texas A & M University Press, College Station:2023, 344 pages, 6 ½” x 9 ½”, hardcover; $80. Visit, wwwtamupress.com.Admit it, litterateur, neither do…
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TWO ACKNOWLEDGED SOLDIER-ARCHETYPES WRITE INTENSELY AFFECTING MEMOIRS
stints in the White House administrations of George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton,and Donald Trump.From the beginning, R.D., plucky and courageously persistent, established a reputation forbravery and…
Stalingrad 1942-43; Stalingrad Airlift 1942-43; Waffen-SS Soldier versus Soviet Rifleman; Soviet Naval. Infantry 1917-91
“STALINGRAD 1942 – 43 (Book 3) – Catastrophe: the Death of 6 th Army”, by Robert Forczyk,Illustrated by Steve Noon, Campaign 385 Series. OSPREY PUBLISHING Ltd/ Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc: 2022,…
The Last Cavalry Sword; The Eight Connecticut Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War; The Chicago Board of Trade Battery in the Civil War
“THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE BATTERY IN THE CIVIL WAR”, by Dennis W. Belcher.McFarland & Company Inc, Publishers: 2022, 389 pages, softcover; $49.95. Visit,wwwmcfarlandpub.com.What a delight “The Last Cavalry Sword”,…
Battleship Alabama; Silver State Dreadnought / The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada
Reviewed and recommended by Don DeNevi“BATTLESHIP ALABAMA”, by Daniel Roger. A Naval History Special Edition, U.S. Naval InstitutePress: 2022, 109 pages, 9”x11”, softcover; $29.95. Visit, www.usni.org.“SILVER STATE DREADNOUGHT – –…
From the Battlefield to the Big Screen, Summer Movies, Danger on the Silver Screen
In Melody Foreman’s well-crafted, thoroughly engrossing treatise depicting the wartimeexperiences of four movie superstars, she welcomes us to look closely behind the lives of thestars who appeared in a host…
A Mighty Fortress; Bomb Group; In Furious Skies
of the famous Eighth Air Force consisted of its bombardment groups, each equipped withscores of heavily armed four-engine bombers. These Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses andConsolidated B-24 Liberators were soon punching…
Fast-Attack Submarines
Successors to the US Navy’s Los Angeles class fast-attack submarines (presented in volume1), the Seawolf and Virginia class SSNs are presented here from their initial design andconstruction, through testing and…
Twelve Years With Hitler
Veteran’s Association, and edited by the most-able, brilliant Hans Quassowski, “ . . . a man whowith the zeal, persistence, knowledge, and untiring patience to approach veterans again andagain in…
Jagdgeschwader 53
JAGDGESCHWADER 53, or as it was better known, the “Pik As” (Ace of Spades) Geschwader,was one of the oldest German fighter units of World War II with its origins dating…
Hitler’s Air Defences
For author Stephan Wynn, the critical question of his book’s systematic exposition orargument is, “Were antiaircraft defenses such as Flak guns, barrage balloons, searchlight unitsand fighter aircraft effective in beating…
World War I and the Medication of Jazz Music
Life before World War I was more difficult than what it was like after the war. Before the war women were mostly only seen as housewives, if something was to…
REVIEW: Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman’s Year in Vietnam
Peter Clark’s year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was…
In the Service of the Emperor; The Devil’s Workshop
“THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP – – A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation”, by Adolf Burger.Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, dist. by Casemate Publishing: first publishedin 2009,…
Hitler’s Traitors
Having read Hugh Trevor-Roper’s “The Last Ten Days of Hitler” as seriously enthusiasticWWII buffs, or casual, curious readers, those of us in our teens, or in our 20’s and 30’s,…
Death of Sean Luketina during the Grenada Invasion in 1983
Sergeant Sean Luketina was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, 82nd Signal Battalion, Alpha Company, Assault CP. He was seriously wounded in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury, 27 October…
The Soviet Baltic Offensive, 1944-45
WHEN HITLER’S WEHRMACHT, PANZER DIVISIONS, AND ELITE SS DIVISIONS WERE SENTREELING BACK TO BERLIN BY HISTORY’S GREATEST BLITZKRIEG, SOVIET STYLE Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi “THE SOVIET BALTIC…
Hitler’s Court; I was Hitler’s Pilot
In “HITLER’S COURT”, author Heike Gortemaker asks probing questions all WWII buffs havebeen asking for decades, “Who did Der Fuhrer include in his inner circle, not on the periphery ofit,…
Hitler’s Last Witness; Living with Hitler; Hitler’s Girl
There is still a great deal to be learned about Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945). Had he notsimultaneously chomped down on a cyanide capsule while pulling the trigger on his…
Dunkirchen 1940
– the Navy has toiled night and day, without sleep for scores of naval officers and men. Theypersist. The work of rescue never pauses. “The Navy,” says one observer, “is…
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
“Churchill was worried that a stalemate would set in similar to that of World War I or, morerecently, Anzio . . . . The Germans quickly took advantage of Caen’s…
When the Shooting Stopped August 1945
WW II WAS OVER, AND ALL OVER THE WORLD THE KISSING STARTED. BUT WAS IT REALLYOVER?Brilliant new OSPREY PUBLISHING book arrives in time to give as a perfect Christmas giftReviewed…
The Sound of Hope
A. Rutkowski, Council for Protection of FightAnd Martyrdom Monuments, Warszawa, Poland, “A Tribute” “THE SOUND of HOPE –Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust andWorld War II”, by…
The Mighty Eighth and Ace in a Day
“THE MIGHTY EIGHTH – – A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth AirForce 1942-45”, by Michael Craig & the Military Gallery Commemorative Committee,distributed by CASEMATE…
Fellini – – The Sixties
In his superb article, “A Religion of Film”, TIME, September 20, 1963, critic Brad Darrach wrote,“Imagination minus taste – in “I Vitelloni” (1953), he put together a conventional but faultlesssocial…
TWO NEW CASEMATE BOOKS VIVIDLY PRESENT THEIR EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS
DESPITE BRAVE AND HEROIC ALLIED RESISTANCE, JAPANESE “TIGERS” EASILY OVERRAN THEDUTCH EAST INDIES IN THREE MONTHS – SPECIFICALLY, MALAYA AND SINGAPORE IN 79 DAYS.THEN, FACING IMPOSSIBLE ODDS, FEW SURVIVED CAPTURE,…
