Airborne Landing to Air Assault: A History of Military Parachuting by Nikolaos Theotokis
Theotokis is the right author to deliver a history of airborne operations
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MI9, Escape and Evasion, 1939-1945
Just Finished my 60th(!!) Book Review of the Year!! I have to say I am so thankful to my Brother in Law Chris who pointed out this book in a Bristol Charity shop a few years ago- and I am so embarrassed I took so long to read it. MRD Foot CBE and JM Langley …
Being there . . . . April 29, 1945, with Berlin pounded into rubble, Hitler, having realized defeat was inevitable, and with no place to hide, simultaneously gulped cyanide and shot himself through the mouth . . .
Three Spellbinding Authoritative New Books Describe Nazi Germany’s Death Throes Millions upon millions upon millions of deaths deserve notices of sad recognition, biographical sketches, especially of the helpless and innocent, but none the vehement obituaries of the Third Reich and its ominous prodigy and his wicked, evil, sycophantic bootlickers deserve. The most destructive war the …
Darkest Hour
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just Finished my 53rd Book Review of the Year!! The 1941 Australian Government knew that Rabaul, the Anchorage on the northern tip of the island of New Britain was important. They had taken the Island off the German Empire in WWI, and were happily exploiting the local copra trade and administering …
Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just Finished my 52nd Book Review of the Year!! When Edward Crankshaw wrote Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny in 1956, he well understood the subject. A veteran of the British Foreign Office, Intelligence Services, and a journalist of note, he was fluent in both German and Russian, and knew both the Nazi …
The Price of Admiralty
Just Finished my 50th Book Review of the Year!! Review by Martin Koenigsberg Written in 1988, The Price of Admiralty is the Military writer John Keegan’s Naval Warfare history, a companion to his great Face of Battle and Mask of Command , books about land warfare and command, control and strategy. To tell the story …
The Commander’s Voice (History of the 82nd Signal Battalion WWI and WWII)
Review by: Todd Shugart Author: Christopher “Moon” Mullins Publisher: Self PublishedPrice: £26.53ISBN: 9798638988494Date: 2020 (2nd Edition)Pages/Format: 187 page softback Summary: Communication has often been said to be the key to success in battle. If a commander cannot pass orders to troops in the field and the troops cannot report back to the upper echelons of …
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Yamato, Flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
“Yamato, Flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy”; by Daniel Knowles, Casemate, Fonthill Media, 224 pages, $49, 76 b & w images. Publisher’s Summary: Named after the Yamato Province, Yamato was designed to counter the numerically superior fleet of the US Navy. Built amongst a shroud of secrecy and deception and commissioned shortly after the outbreak …
Bombers over Berlin: the RAF offensive, November 1943-March 1944
Just Finished my 44th Book Review of the Year!! Reviewer: Martin Koenigsberg Author: Alan W. Cooper In late 1943, with large numbers of Lancasters finally at his disposal, “Bomber” Harris- the leader of the RAF’s Bomber Command thought it was time to take the war to Berlin. There had been raiding over the German Capital …
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Review: Curtiss Design 75 Hawk P-36 and International Derivatives
Review by: Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 43rd Book Review of the Year!! Summary: A very complete look at the Curtiss P-36, one of the seminal American Aircraft of the WWII Era. Served in many Air Forces and brought many new features to the Pre War Aircraft Industry. Each airframe is traced and discussed. This …
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