2 Trailers of TV-Series Das Boot (2018) Released!

Sky has released two trailers of the upcoming TV-Series “Das Boot”, which will air on November 23 in a few countries. I’ve added English subtitles to the trailers. If there are no subtitles: Activate it with clicking on the “CC” symbol, bottom right in the YT video screen. “It is Autumn 1942 in occupied France and…

Solitude in the Shadow of Death: Battle of Peleliu

A personal and revising look at one of World War 2’s forgotten battles: The Battle of Peleliu I’ll be the first to admit that when I was planning my first trip to Peleliu, my limited knowledge of the battle that raged there during the autumn of 1944, came from recalling grainy re-runs of the eponymous…

The Citadelle and Québec City

Canada and the US have been close allies for over a century.  But it wasn’t always this way, and the Citadelle of Québec City and its surroundings are proof. The largest British fortification in North America, the Citadelle was constructed between 1820 and 1850. Having repelled American invasion during the War of 1812, the British…

The Wolf Children; Transforming Hitler’s Germany

forbidden to take them in because they were “fascist children”. For decades their fates hadremained overlooked by Germany, even the government of the unified new Germany. Truly,this one of unfortunate results of Hitler’s insatiable hunger for war and conquest. Fortunately,some were lucky to be taken in, even lovingly cared for primarily by Lithuanian farmers, butnearly…

Japan 1941

Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 18th Book Review of the Year!! I read this book as I began a cross Pacific Trek, first in Hawaii and then the Philippines. I was following my father’s footsteps toward Japan in the Pacific War, so it was almost enraging to find that Imperial Japan went…

Overlord (1975)

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper’s immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s journey from basic training to the front lines of D-Day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Film Overlord Country UK Director Stuart Cooper Writer Stuart Cooper, Christopher Hudson Cast Brian Stirner, Davyd…

Forgotten Armies- The Fall of British Asia 1941-45

I liked this book, even though it can’t quite tell the story as fully as I thought necessary. Maybe the book I was looking for would have to be a Thousand pages, which these guys gave out at 464. Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper are British Academics interested in the Empire, Colonialism, and the South…

General Karl Student

Review By Martin Koenigsberg The Soviets might have been the first to experiment with Parachute Infantry, but it was the Nazis who first used it tactically- with the feats in the Netherlands and at Eben Emael in Belgium. The Allies would soon eclipse the Nazi Airborne achievements with those of their own, but for the…

The Battle of Megiddo – Palestine 1918

Review by Martin Koenigsberg British General Allenby was given a real challenge late in WWI. The Army that he had taken Jerusalem with in 1917 was needed on the Western front, so his British soldiers and Tanks went back to France. The conquest of the Ottoman Turkish Empire would require a new Army, one using…

10mm Ammo – Can It Take Down Bears?

Every seasoned hunter is well aware of the strength of 10mm ammunition. These rounds are primarily used in competition or for hunting, and they are more than capable of taking out a large game in one shot. With one accurate and powerful shot of 10mm through the barrel of your rifle, you could take down…