ONCE UPON A TIME IN WAR. The 99th Division in World War II
What really impressed me is the honesty. There is no sugar coating or trying to portray the GI as movie heroes Lots of books are written…
Liberty Park museum Overloon, Netherlands
Imagine a battlefield that has been cleared of explosives and then opened to the public. This is how the Liberty Park was founded in 1945,…
FAMOUS 1914-1918
Britain lost one million souls during the war of 1914-18 and of the millions who came home to the ‘Land fit for heroes’ a number…
TO THE GATE OF HELL – The Memoir of a Panzer Crewman
Just to prove my theory that speed reading a few sections of a book is no way to prepare a review, I tried it with…
REVIEWS: IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIPS By Lester Abbey SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU By Steve Backer
The ladies in the PR department at Pen & Sword are anything but daft. Actually, they are perfectly charming when they email me. On with…
PRESS RELEASE: BHTV finished filming on new Operation Market Garden series.
BHTV finished filming on new Operation Market Garden series. Battlefield History TV have announced that after 2 years of filming on location, they have now…
REVIEW: THE PHANTOM ARMY OF ALAMEIN
Try and have a guess how many books have been published in the English language about some facet or other of World War II. Well…
REVIEW: AN ANZAC ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Books can be wonderful things and there have been times when I have really blessed my good fortune for accepting this gig when the coffee…
REVIEW: IMAGES OF WAR CARNAGE The German Front In World War One
I’ve been banging my drum about this series of books for a while now and I’m not ashamed to say the song remains the same…
REVIEW: SALAMANCA The Peninsular Collection DVD
Just for a change we are abandoning the 20th Century and skipping back a hundred years to the days of the redcoats when the British…
VIMY By Pierre Berton
A prolific and much loved writer, the late Pierre Berton’s passion for Canadian history resounded through his long career as a journalist and broadcaster. A…