Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2018 | Published by The Saber and Scroll Journal

Anne Midgley

Welcome to the Spring-Summer 2018 issue of the Saber and Scroll Journal. With this issue, the journal has entered a new phase in its publication...

Articles

Communication in Africa: Talking Drums and Town Criers in Pre-colonial and Colonial Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon

Walter Gam Nkwi

This article focuses on the historical vicissitudes of the talking drum and town criers as forms of communication in the pre-colonial and early colonial Bamenda...

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Vermont Soldiers in Control of the Home Front: Family and Social Guidance through Letters
Jamie Alluisi
With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 came the immediate need for large numbers of men to join the Union ranks and...
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The American Übermensch: History of Superheroes
Ryan Lancaster
Every civilization has its own mythology. The Greeks had their Olympians. The Vikings had their Asgardians. Early settlers in the United States had folklore characters...
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How Rehabilitation and Reintegration Impacted the Masculine Identities of Disabled British Veterans of the Great War
Susan Danielsson
Private Charles Neal, formerly a milkman, served in the British army during the Great War. Months of exposure in the trenches caused him to develop...
Book Reviews
James Holland. Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018
Dr. Robert Smith
Everyone knows about the Strategic Air Campaign but seemingly, the Big Week has escaped public consciousness. Kenney’s Pointblank Directive was among a handful of modern...

Book Reviews

Robert Morgan and Ron Powers. The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle, Memoir of a WW II Bomber Pilot. New York: Dutton, 2001

Michael R Majerczyk

In the early part of the air campaign against Germany, 1942, the 91st Bomb Group, part of the 324th Bomb Squadron and Eighth Air Force...

Book Reviews

Anne Midgley. Charles Hulett, Continental Army Drummer: A Revolutionary Life Reexamined. Self-Published, Lulu. 2018.

Tormod B. Engvig

In Charles Hulett, Continental Army Drummer: A Revolutionary Life Reexamined, author Anne Midgley explores the life of an eighteenth century American from the colony of...

Book Reviews

Anne Applebaum. Gulag: A History. New York: Anchor Books, 2004

Bill Hanson

When confronting evil in the world, it is important to look at it with an unblinking eye and to bear witness of what has happened....

Book Reviews
Adam Makos and Larry Alexander. A Higher Call. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2012
Michael R Majerczyk
A Higher Call is a story about German fighter ace Franz Stigler and the pilot of the B-17 Ye Old Pub, Charlie Brown. When Stigler...
Book Reviews
N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss, Timothy J. Orr and Laura Lawfer Orr. Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway. New York: Harper Collings, 2017
Michael R Majerczyk
Captain Norman Jack “Dusty” Kleiss of the United States Navy piloted an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber at the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942. He was...
Book Reviews
Benn Steil. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018
Dr. Cynthia Nolan
States do not make foreign policy; people do. The elected and non-elected officials of the bureaucracy make the decisions that determine American foreign policy. In...