It’s been some time since I posted a book review. Over the last few months I’ve been reading mostly fiction. I did finally get back into reading history with Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon A. Tunstall.
The Eastern Front of both world wars tend to be neglected [...]
I’ve just finished reading The Fourth Horseman: One Man’s Mission to Wage the Great War in America by Robert Koenig. It is the story of American-born Anton Dilger and his treasonous actions during World War One.
Dilger was the son of a Civil War hero and grew up in Virginia. His family had very [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Some people might think that France has always loved the United States, at least until George W. Bush became President. However, according to John J. Miller and Mark Molesky they have spent much more time in opposition to America than as its friend.
It all started with the French & Indian Wars. The French [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
James J. Hudson’s Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I is an outstanding book. It covers all aspects of American aeronautics during the war from the nearly non-existent air force when war was declared through all the training, bumps, and chaos as the Americans established themselves.
The book [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
I haven’t read too much recently on Vietnam. The last book I had read on the subject was years ago when I took a class at college. However I recently got a copy of Vietnam Zippos by Sherry Buchanan. It is a really nice book.
This book is filled with photographs of a [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh 21 November 1943. Over 23,000 fans were in attendance for the Steagles’ game against the Detroit Lions. The Lions were an average team, they won a number of games, lost a few more. Just a week before the lions were decimated by the Redskins 42-20. The week before [...]
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Second World War started in Europe on 1 September 1939. Germany had invaded Poland. France and Britain declare war on Germany in response to this. A war that started with Poland being invaded ends with it still occupied by a murderous totalitarian foreign power.
Years ago in school when we covered the [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Last night I had a couple of friends over and we played a game of Axis & Allies. A&A has always been a great game, but the revised edition made some major improvements on the original design. One of the best improvements was in adding territories along the Eastern Front so that the [...]
Saturday, October 17, 2009
“In October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers – accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 300 other vessels, a half-dozen Zepplins, and 80 aircraft – attacked the Baltic Islands of Dago [Hiiumaa], Ösel [Saaremaa], and Moon [Muhu] at the head of the Gulf of Riga. It proved to be the [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
World War I: The Great War DVD. Well I had to check this out, four disks filled with all sorts of World War I stuff by the History Channel. It ends up being a collection of shows from over the years that are mostly about the war that could have been placed in [...]
