Tonight I went to the Downtown Cabaret Theatre here in Rochester to see a show called “The Accidental Hero.” It is a one-man performance by Patrick Dewane about his grandfather’s participation in World War II.
His grandfather’s grandparents managed to escape terrible lives in Czech lands to America. They created a life for themselves [...]
Thursday, December 17, 2009
During World War II, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America became worried about a possible invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. If the Japanese managed to conquer the islands they would have access to a large amount of cash in the banks and owned by the businesses and citizens of the territory.
On this [...]
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, September 19, 2009
Babel Fish translation:
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Over at the World War II History blog there is a post with an audio clip of a speech given by Wendell Wilkie while he was running for President of the United States in 1940. He lost the election to FDR, getting about 22 million votes to FDR’s 27 million and a spread at [...]
I had always heard that General Patton sounded nothing like George C. Scott. I heard his voice described as ‘squeaky’, among other things. A few days ago Mark Grimsley over at ‘Blog Them Out of the Stone Age’ had a link to an audio clip of Patton.
Here is a LINK to The Patton [...]
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Patton’s Photographs: War as He Saw It is an interesting book. It contains hundred of photos, most that had not been published before. Many of the photos were taken by Patton himself.
The book is in roughly chronological order covering everything from North Africa to a few post-war photos. The author, Kevin M. Hymel, does a [...]
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hello everyone. Today I decided to go see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The movie wasn’t too bad if you can manage to ignore three impossible things. The story is about an 8 year-old boy who’s father is promoted to command a concentration camp. He befriends an 8 year-old boy in the camp.
***SPOILERS***
As for [...]
This book is awesome. It contains the editorial cartoons created by Theodor Seuss Geisel during World War II. Most of them are brilliant. This is the one book that I can show to people who are not interested in history and they actually enjoy flipping through.
The book is categorized into a number [...]
