Book Reviews
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Yeide, Harry. Betting Against America: The Axis Power’s Views of the United States, Casemate Publishers, 2024. ISBN 978-1-63624-411-2. 496 pgs. USD $11.32 (Hardcover). ISBN 978-1-63624-412-9 Digital Edition.
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MacArthur’s Bloody Butchers: Company G, 163rd Infantry Regiment, in the Pacific War. By Brian Bruce.
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Book Review: Waldemar Heckel’s Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander and His Successors: From Chaironeia to Ipsos (338-301 BC)
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Prefer, Nathan N. The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns, Philadelphia, Casemate Publishers, 2024. ISBN 978-1636244242. Notes. Index. Bibliography. Pp. 335. Hardcover $37.95. Electronic version available.
Due to enormous distances on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945, the Soviet political-military leadership had to create new organizational expedients to control operations.
Entertainment Nation is a companion book to the new major exhibition, of the same name, which opened at the National Museum of American History in 2022.
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Ty Seidule’s Robert E Lee and Me is a confessional, evangelical, autobiographical, and historical reminiscence of his upbringing and life as a United States Army Officer.
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Most western narratives frame the Kurdish people in relation to the others—Iraqi, Syrian, Turkish, American. The Kurds actually comprise one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world.
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On January 30, 1945, the German ocean liner-turned-military-transport-ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff sank in the Baltic Sea after a Soviet submarine sent three torpedoes into her side.
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... In an elaborate commemoration seven years prior, Secretary of the Navy Charles Bonaparte declared that Jones “gave our Navy its earliest traditions of heroism and victory.”
Son of a clockmaker, the author is a historian of technology and the former curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory and helps run the world’s oldest clock museum.
Think Confederate soldiers, who mostly were not slaveowners, did not fight for slavery? Think again. The cause was inextricably linked to slavery—and the enslaved traveled with the rebel army.