DC-3, Icon of Victory, by Hans Wiesman
Just 3 days after the 6th of June 1944, USAAF Engineers achieved the unthinkable. Right next to Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast at Saint…
THE FALL OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE – Review by Phil Hodges
I had a bad experience with a book from this series before. I say bad, tasteless is probably a better description. I didn’t like one drop…
BRITISH INFANTRY BATTALION COMMANDERS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR – Review by Dr Wayne Osborne
I have to start by admitting that I know Peter Hodgkinson and the series editor John Bourne. Interest declared; on with the review! Peter’s book…
Geoff Moore: ESTONIA SEAPLANE HARBOUR MUSEUM
Although called the Seaplane Harbour Museum this centre encompasses a wider scope of maritime items than just seaplanes for example and that submarine which appears…
Pegasus Bridge Museum – A Visit in Pictures
Last week I was in Normandy and finally had the chance to visit Pegasus Bridge and the museum. I’ve always camped far away in the…
‘Restoring a memory’ Civil War soldier receives memorial headstone 141 years after death
By Jeremy P. Ämick As noted in the book “Germans in the Civil War” by Walter Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich, German Americans made up one…
RACE TO THE RHINE – Review by Mark Barnes
We last saw these authors with their extremely likable guide to D-Day and the beginnings of the Normandy campaign. I obviously wasn’t paying sufficient attention…
THE BATTLE OF KURSK 1943 – Review by Mark Barnes
Put your feet up and chillax chums because a serious candidate for ‘book of the year’ is in and we aren’t yet half way through…
Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day 1 June 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 1 June 1940 64,000 men manage to…
WIMPY – A Detailed Illustrated History of the Vickers Wellington in Service – Review by Mark Barnes
There is a tidy page on Facebook called the Aviation Enthusiast Book Club that might sound like the name of a band of posh public…
Guest blogger Dan Snow: Dunkirk – Day by Day – 30 May 1940
Dan Snow gives us a day by day account of the miraculous evacuation at Dunkirk during WWII. On 30 May 1940 the British cabinet meet…
Air Raids over the Borneo Oil Refineries by Dakota Hunter Hans Wiesman
The fascinating photo was taken from a PBY-5 operated by Australian Forces, to supply the Allied war effort in PNG in 1944/45 . As the…