Article and Review by Nick Jacobellis As early as 1982 the U.S. Army requested the development of a carbine version of the M16A1-A2. Even though the Colt CAR15 (carbine) was available in limited numbers during the Vietnam War, it wasn’t until 2010 that the transition to replace the M16-A2 with the M4 Carbine was largely…
Review by Martin Koenigsberg 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…
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…
Verloren in Klessin (Lost in Klessin) focuses on the events that took place near the river Oder in February/March 1945. While the Russians moved closer towards German home ground and towards Berlin forces were drawn to Klessin, a small village located not far from a strategic crossing over the river Oder. At the same time refugees…
Armin Theophil Wegner was born on October 16, 1886 in Elberfeld/Rhineland, Germany. Armin was born into a family with old noble Prussian roots. His father was a civil servant employed by the German Imperial Railroad and his mother was a suffragette and pacifist. When he was 16, Wegner published his first book of poetry, I…
Review by Martin Koenigsberg I just finished my 13th Book Review of the Year!! The WWII Nazi U-boat menace had the potential to affect The British Empire existentially, while it was a lesser threat to America. Thus it will be no surprise that the British Imperial Navies Air Forces and their Free European Allies had…
Review by Martin Koenigsberg Just finished my 1st Book Review of the Year!! In this book, two veterans of the Army and Department of the Army history programs give us the history of the overall Army History program from its roots in the new Industrial-sized army of WWI to the more smoothly planned and operated…
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…
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…
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…
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