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“THE BLUE AND GRAY ALMANAC – – The Civil War in Facts and Figures; Recipes and Slang”, byAlbert Nofi. CASEMATE PUBLISHERS: 2017, 346 pagers, 6”x 9”, softcover, $22.95. Visit, www.gettyburgpublishers.com. In “Gettysburg Faces – Portraits and Personal Accounts”, Ron Coddington has added to ourknowledge and enjoyment with a unique collection of 100 rare photographs of…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg The Japanese did not get long to enjoy their Empire. Try as they might to squeeze every last drop of toil and plunder they could from their ill-gotten gains- they only got to do it for less than 4 years. Jon Diamond, MD is a Doctor by trade, but a Historian…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 95th Book Review of the Year! Robert Lyman, a veteran and long-time historian of the later British Empire just a great full history of the entire Burma WWII story, so putting together a Campaign book for this struggle was right in his wheelhouse. He brings us a British…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Peter Harmsen is an “Old China Hand” with Degrees from Asian Universities and a long respected career as an East Asia correspondent, so his First book of a trilogy on the Roots and Prosecution of the Pacific War is a really good read. He starts in Chins, and its tortured relationship…

19,000 airplanes, making it one of the most prolific aircraft factories in the WesternHemisphere.Using government documents, company records, and news reports from the era, Terranceexamines the NAA plants successes and failures as management and employees worked tomaintain production while dealing with manpower, material, and housing shortages for almost40,000 workers. When production fell behind schedule, the…

Ashes in the Snow tells the story of a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family which are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin’s brutal dismantling of the Baltic region in 1941 during World War 2. One girl’s passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history. The movie is inspired by true…

Being there . . . . to begin the new year with two of the most definitive books Schiffer Publishingever marketed – -both on rare topics even the most advanced bibliophile, aficionado,enthusiast, or relaxed reader have never stopped to realize and consider. May God Bless You inand with hope, if you’re too much of a…

Red Joan is a British drama film based on true events that will be released on April 19, 2019 in UK Cinemas. The movie is inspired by the life of Melita Norwood, the Soviet KGB’s longest-serving British spy. The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the…

Review by Martin Koenigsberg Mussolini might have wanted to make the Mediterranean a Roman Hegemony by entering WWII, but the Royal Navy had other ideas. The Italian Navy was quite strong for its day- but had chosen to stay fully invested in Battleships and conventional naval scouting. The Royal Navy might not have invested in…

The sun sparkled on the words that had struck so much terror… Arbeit Macht Frei. Ahead of me were brick buildings that could have come from a college campus. They were former Polish army barracks and I, was at Auschwitz. The few birch trees adjacent to the sign were still shedding their leaves. Two adjectives…