The Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Kaga, part of the six-fleet carrier that launched planes that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, has been discovered by RV Petrel on October 18th and…

Almost a week after RV Petrel announced they had discovered the first Japanese battleship to be sunk during World War II, Battleship Hiei, the research vessel discovered the wreckage of…

Before you can select an airsoft gun, it’s essential to know at least the basics if you’re new to the sport. There is a multitude of high-quality products, but determining…

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…

Fighter Aces of the Great War by Stephen and Tanya Wynn Review By Ben Powers      Fighter Aces of the Great War is an interesting discussion of facets of…

several books and articles related to the stealth technology, radar engineering, missileengineering, and similar subjects. And you should note, his latest book is an absolute MUSTREAD: “Defending Putin’s Empire –…

Like many others who served in the Korean War, Staff Sergeant Reckless, one of the relatively few females serving in the conflict, had courage to spare and an undiscriminating appetite…

In the early 1950s, there was no news story so scandalous and titillating as that of the Rosenbergs. However, historians generally agree that the two were in fact guilty. The Makings of…

DESCRIPTION      Critiquing cinema’s Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s legendary director; and Hollywood’s historic stunt arrangers and stunt performers. FOR THE CINEMATIC–MINDED, TWO NEW TCM AND McFARLAND BOOKS TO AROUSE AND CELEBRATE…

Book Review of The Lusitania Sinking – Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Anthony Richards, Pen and Sword Publishing. This book provides a detailed account of the tragedy that was the…

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – This Veterans Day, moviegoers everywhere can witness the most pivotal Pacific battle in World War II: “Midway.” The production reminds viewers just how precariously America’s future teetered…

“FROM ANTIETAM TO APPOMATTOX WITH UPTON’S REGULARS – – A Civil War Memoir from the121 st New York Regiment by Dewitt Clinton Beckwith”, Edited by Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr.McFarland &…

`Being there . . . if you sincerely believe as this reviewer that the greatest gift that can be placedunder anyone’s Christmas tree, or find placed under your own, is…

A great image catalog from the wartime archives depicting the Nazi’s struggle against the vastly superior Russian tanks, armor formations, and soldiers at the Eastern Front. Hitler invaded the USSR…

withdrew with Germans hot on their heels. On May 2, a German patrol blundered into theircamp, resulting in the killing of all the Germans and leaving one Norwegian resistance fighterwounded.…

[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 [/junkie-toggle] Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer (SAM RILEY), Harry Woods (JAMES COSMO) – (C) Sid Gentle Films…

Review By Martin Koenigsberg This is an interesting book in Ballantine’s Illustrated History of the Violent Century series, number 22 of their “War Leader” subseries. Written by Alan Wykes, a…

Being there . . . for an introduction to a new series of military books certain to please all World War II readers, from the unsmiling, deadly serious modern war…

Being there . . . . in the midst of evil personification, when HITLER’S story was all of Germany’sstory’s, and, by 1929, when HEINRICH HIMMLER, an early Nazi, was ordered…

Post by Moon Mullins Here is something from my publisher regarding my most recent book (left) and my first book (right). Both are available 30% off from Pen and Sword.-…

During World War I, the medical profession responded with mobile X-Ray machines, the use of the Thomas Splint, use of vaccines, and new emphasis on continuing care and rehabilitation. Many…

Being there . . . . for the endless miracle of military publishing this yuletide (Christmas time)buying season – – ten+ weeks left to shop and order from the last…

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.…

     Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France during World War Two, was a successful, lightning-fast campaign that met its objectives in just over four weeks, from 15 August…

. . . continued from yesterday’s ARGunners’ edition Reviewed and highly recommended by Don DeNevi                                                               …

[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 Episode 2[/junkie-toggle] Title Hitler: The Rise of Evil Country Canada, USA Production Co. Alliance Atlantis Communications Director Christian Duguay Cast Robert Carlyle, Matthew Modine,…

“SOG MEDIC – – Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence”, by Joe Parnar and Robert Dumont.CASEMATE PUBLISHERS, Military History/ Vietnam War: recently republished from the firstCASENATE publication date of…

“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…

A TOP GUN FOR CQB ENCOUNTERS AND SURVIVAL SITUATIONS BY: NICK JACOBELLIS If there was ever a category of firearms that can best be described by the expression, “Life is…

Being there . . . . for Schiffer Publishing Company’s famed military historian-author NormanFranks’ introductions of British and American Aces of World War I, followed in a few weeks,with an…

BEST BOOKS TO LIVE THROUGH WORLD WAR II IF YOU HAVN’T LIVE THROUGH WORLD WAR IIPart Two of A Three Part-Series of 2022’s Most Recommended TitlesOF COURSE, TINY, BUT GROWING…

Operation Infatuate was the codename given to an Anglo-Canadian operation during the Second World War to open the port of Antwerp to shipping and relieve logistical constraints. The operation was…

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…

Being there with Don DeNevi . . . . on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor ofthe German Reich via a Nazi–Nationalist coalition victory with immediate plans to…

If you’re a gun lover, you know there are a lot of choices when it comes to optics. So, which one should you choose? We narrowed it down to two…

     The popular notion of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, as it prepared to embark for France in 1914, is of a small, professional Army comprised of regulars,…

Being there . . . . for one of my few cinema columns rather than continuing with introductionsto new titles about death and destruction during the seething hell of World…

Koos Winkelman, an avid Dutch traveler and photographer, has made another great photographic Then & Now tribute, this time related to the Battle of Arnhem that occurred during Operation Market…

     Charles Roberts work on the development and employment of the 37mm cannon by the United States is a straightforward and informative examination of the weapon in a variety of…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg When I got back from a trip to the Philippines- I knew I wanted to read this book next. The Philippines was my father’s campaign- and…

Hal Moore, “Leadership in Action” series from Casemate Publishing Descriptive events of the life and leadership role of Hal Moore. A lesson learned about the Vietnam War as well as…

[junkie-toggle title=”Season 1″ state=”closed”] Episode 1 – 16[/junkie-toggle] Title Krasnaya Kapella Country Russia Production Co. Rekun TV, Rizhskaja Kinostudia Creators Cast Andrey Ilin, Aleksey Gorbunov, Dmitriy Nazarov Language Russian English…

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…

The year 1967 was the Summer of Love in the United States, but while young people, hippies, peace activists and flower children flocked to Haight-Asbury, San Francisco to revel in…

Publisher’s Summary: In the mid-1930s, just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality, Nazi Germany launched a program of espionage against the unwary nation. “The Nazi…

profited from them but escaped the gallows. Author Walter E. Wilson, a retired Navy Captainand former head of U.S. Naval Intelligence operations in Europe, has authored numerousarticles and reviews.“THE CHICAGO…

American Hero: The most decorated Native American soldier in U.S. history – 4 Silver Stars, 5 Bronze Stars, 3 Purple Hearts. He earned a total of 42 medals and citations.…

Being there . . . . on deck of any one of 14 tiny Shetland Island fishing boats in the usual stormy North Sea shuttling SOE agents to, and Gestapo-hunted…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Fresh off their stunning masterpiece of an attack on Pearl Harbor, in early 1942 the Japanese sent their combined aircraft carrier fleet to do the same…

AND STABILIZING BRACES ON RIFLES, SUBMACHINE GUNS, PISTOLS AND SHOTGUNS  By Nick Jacobellis One of the more significant advancements that has been made in the firearms industry, has involved the…