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Review: Blood on the Snow

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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 [...]

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Review: The Fourth Horseman

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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 [...]

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Review: Hostile Skies

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 [...]

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Review: Operation Albion

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 [...]

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Review: World War I: The Great War

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 [...]

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Cher Ami

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Here is another animal hero from World War One.  Unlike the Sergeant Stubby the American dog who fought in the trenches, Cher Ami was not a fighter, but a messenger. Here is a short biography of the bird paraphrased from the Smithsonian site:
He was one of over six-hundred birds owned and flown by the [...]

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Review: Fall of Eagles

Monday, June 29, 2009

This is an interesting 13 episode series. It is packed with a large number of stars and has the ambitious objective of following the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, and Austria from the late 1800s to the end of World War One when all three were no more (sorry to spoil the ending…). That is [...]

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Battle of Tanga

Friday, June 26, 2009

When the Great War started in Europe, a number of colonies and forces in Africa agreed not to fight. Their fate would be determined by what happened in Europe, not by any battles or conquests in Africa. Why waste resources and lives for a war they could not alter the outcome of? Besides it would [...]

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Review: Reilly: Ace of Spies

Monday, June 22, 2009

This British series seemed interesting to me when I first heard of it. It is based off the life of one of a top British secret agent, Sidney Reilly (played by Sam Neill). Reilly was one of the first and greatest agents the British had. He was supposedly the real life person [...]

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Review: The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Monday, June 15, 2009

The 1938 version of The Dawn Patrol is pretty good. I have not seen the 1930 version, but from what I’ve read it is a nearly identical plot.
Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Scotty (David Niven) are great friends and two of the pilots of a British squadron during World War I. They have been [...]

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