Purple Heart legacy
Vietnam War service earns local veteran two Purple Heart medals By Jeremy P. Amick A son often follows in the footsteps of his father, whether…
ABOVE AND BEYOND – Review by Mark Barnes
How many times have you heard the old saying the Lord moves in mysterious ways? It has been used to explain all manner of situations…
AGINCOURT – Review by Squire Philip de Hodges
Military DVDs: Did I want to review some? Well not really, no. I’d experienced some before and to be blunt they were awful! I’ve never…
FURY – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
Cast your weary minds back to the summer of 2013. I was sitting with a colleague in the press office at the War & Peace…
Snow and Steel – Review by Mark Barnes
There is a long running radio show on the BBC called Desert Island Discs, the premise being that the invited celebrity will pick a number…
FOR THE FALLEN – Review by Mark Barnes
We are inching close to Armistice Day and the poppies will soon be on sale again. Like tens of thousands of others I wear mine…
BILLY CONGREVE DIARY – Review by Wayne Osborne
This is yet another diary from the Great War and it is a very good read for either the casual reader or the historian. Billy…
Memories left behind
Korean War service earns Missouri veteran a Purple Heart medal By Jeremy P. Ämick In 1953, David Rackers was on a boat passing under the…
I survived – Review by Phil Hodges
Loveable: That’s how 4124 Private ‘Ginger’ Byrne came across in this book; after all it is his and based solely on his memoirs. It’s the…
Kidnap in Crete – Review by Mark Barnes
We last met Rick Stroud gadding about the Western Desert following in the wake of a motley crew of scenery painters and conjurers who deceived…
GERMAN WARSHIP SERIES BACK IN PRINT – Review by Mark Barnes
If we think about the Kreigsmarine during World War II the pictures coming immediately into our heads will be of U-Boats or the famous capital…
THE OLD FRONT LINE – Review by Mark Barnes
Back in the 1980s when it was still possible to walk areas of the Western Front and find a considerable amount of the debris of…