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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,…

Sophia Loren

no longer willing to share his name officially to give Sophia, born out of wedlock, a situationthat still saddens Sophia. Food was scarce, an aunt and two uncles moved into…

Trailer and Story behind Thousand Yard Stare (2018)

During World War II, German forces crush the Americans at the ‘Battle of Kasserine Pass’. A lone Sergeant, Roland Rothach, is separated from his platoon in the North Africa deserts.…

The Berlin in 1945 Battlefield Guide – Part 1, 2

outskirts of Berlin to walk along the paths, trails, slopes, and dirt roads German and Soviettroops walked, ran, and were killed on while fighting each other.In short, the highly detailed…

Poland’s Holocaust

That this encyclopedic classic on Poland’s ethnic cleansing during the Second World War wasthe winner of the most respected Literary Award from the Polish Socio-Culture of the PolishLibrary in London…

Donitz’s Crews – Germany’s U-Boat Sailors in World War II

LIFE AND DEATH UNDER THE ATLANTIC AS THE SUBMARINE CREWS OF GROSSADMIRAL KARLDONITZ’S SAIL TO SINK OUR ALLIED WARBOATS AND BRITAIN-BOUND LIBERTY CARGO RELIEFSHIPSReviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi“DONITZ’S…

GRIPPING ACCOUNTS OF HEROISM IN THE FACE OF NEAR CERTAIN DISASTER.

GRIPPING ACCOUNTS OF HEROISM IN THE FACE OF NEAR CERTAIN DISASTER.Reviewed and Highly Recommended by Don DeNevi“ESCAPE FROM JAVA – – The Extraordinary World War II Story of the USS…

Among The Firsts and General Jan Smuts Book Reviews

Being there . . . . welcoming Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard L. Bolland and General Jan Smuts. And their unconventional warfare strategies and tactics to the shelves of your personal libraries…

The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 by author Stephen Badsey

The Franco-Prussian War arguably set the conditions for the First World War in Europe because it signified the final consolidation Prussian King Wilhelm I’s power over the disparate principalities and…

U.S. Civil War Battle by Battle by Ian MacGregor

Ian MacGregor’s U.S. Civil War Battle by Battle is not a comprehensive analysis of the American Civil War, but rather a slim introductory volume that discusses a representative sample of…

The U.S. Army Air Force Consolidated B-24L-10-FO Liberator, sn 44-49710, named STEVENOVICH II, of the 779th Bombardment Squadron, 464th Bombardment Group

The U.S. Army Air Force Consolidated B-24L-10-FO Liberator, s/n 44-49710, named “STEVENOVICH II”, of the 779th Bombardment Squadron, 464th Bombardment Group, shot down by Flak during an attack on ground…

WATCH: Private Snafu – Snafuperman

PRIVATE SNAFU: Episode 10: Snafuperman Private Snafu was the title character of a series of American instructional cartoon shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, produced by Warner Bros., between 1943…

Joseph Rochefort – The Forgotten Hero of the Battle of Midway

Joseph John Rochefort, the man whose decoding of the Japanese codebook led to the American victory at the Battle of Midway, had enemies other than the Empire of Japan. His…

C-47 Flypast at burial of World War 2 Veteran

John Jackson has shared incredible footage of a C-47 flypast this summer at the burial of World War 2 Veteran Karl “Karo” Peters. In honor of Karl Peters, the C-47…

WATCH: How a British Soldier got dressed during World War 1

Skip to content Nick Loven from Crow’s Eye Production created a second informative video on how uniformed personnel dressed during World War 1, this time on how a British soldier…

Booking Health GmbH – treatment in the world’s best clinics without obstacles

Booking Health GmbH is an international online portal for booking examination and treatment in the best hospitals abroad. On the Booking Health website, a patient can independently study information on…

TRAILER: Overlord (2018) Released – WWII Horror / Thriller

On the eve of D-Day, American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success. But as they approach their target, they begin…

Winston Churchill’s Secret Agents: Mysteries of World War II

Winston Churchill was an outstanding politician, speaker, writer, and national leader. He is famous for many things, but mainly for leading the UK throughout WWII. He played the main role…

Audie Murphy: The Army’s Favorite Actor & Hollywood’s Favorite Soldier

Audie Murphy was born a sharecropper, became the most decorated combat soldier of World War II, and went on to become a Hollywood star.  Born June 20th, 1925 to Emmett…

Two Brothers Killed on the USS Oklahoma are Finally Accounted For

The DPAA has announced that two US Navy brothers, Seaman 2nd Class Calvin H. Palmer and Seaman 2nd Class Wilferd D. Palmer, who were killed during the attack on the…

Two Soldiers Missing Since Vietnam War Finally Accounted For!

The DPAA has announced to today that two soldiers from the Vietnam War have finally been accounted for. Air Force Col. Peter J. Stewart and Army Staff Sgt. Marshall F. Kipina, both…

Ben Affleck to direct and star in new World War II Movie “Ghost Army”

Ben Affleck, known for his roles in Pearl Harbor; Justice League, Suicide Squad etc., will be directing and starring in the upcoming World War II movie “Ghost Army”, which is…

REVIEW: Otto Skorzeny – The Devil’s Disciple by Stuart Smith

An excellent historical record of the most dangerous man in Europe during World War II. A true German special forces leader and daredevil involved in most of the high visibility…

Orzel Ostatni patrol (2020)

NOVEMBER Orzel. Ostatni patrol (2020) Starring: Tomasz Zietek, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Antoni Pawlicki Release: November 13 It’s 1940. German forces are prevailing over Allies across Europe. The crew of the Polish…

The American B-17G Powerful Poodle takes a direct hit from Flak over Ludwigshafen, Germany during her 10th, and last, sortie. She went down at 1125, Nov. 5, 1944. All of the crew were killed.

The American B-17G Powerful Poodle takes a direct hit from Flak over Ludwigshafen, Germany during her 10th, and last, sortie. She went down at 1125, Nov. 5, 1944. All of…