Book Reviews
The Red Arrows in Green Hell
By Mason B. WebbDuring the whole of the Pacific campaign, no single mission was more difficult or challenging than the mission assigned to a unit of American GIs in New Guinea. Read more
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The 761st Tank Battalion
Dear Editor:
I wish to commend you for your recent article in the April/May issue on the 761st Tank Battalion. As the first African American armored unit in the history of the U.S. Read more
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Revolution in the South
By Al HemingwayWhen historians discuss the American Revolution, they give scant attention to the hard fighting that occurred in the southern states. Read more
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Eisenhower, Marshall, and MacArthur
By Mason B. WebbOnly five modern American Army generals have ever been authorized to wear the five stars denoting the rank of General of the Army. Read more
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The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
By Al HemingwayI am happy nowhere else and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1787. Read more
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Tragedy and Courage in a Storm-Tossed Sea
By Mason B. WebbIn mid-December 1944, between Guam and the Philippines, the greatest enemy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered was not the Japanese but a monstrous typhoon—the largest storm the U.S. Read more
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The Civil War’s Cruelest Mission
By Al HemingwayLieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry was a melancholy man prior to his involvement in the Civil War. Read more
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The Soviets carried the heavy end of the stick
By Mason B. WebbFor over 60 years, the popular misconception in the West is that the U.S. and Great Britain carried the burden of World War II, while the Soviet Union played a supporting role. Read more
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Manipulated intelligence, faulty equipment, and inept leadership caused one of America’s worst military defeats during the Korean War.
By Al HemingwayIt was dubbed “the century’s nastiest little war” by celebrated military historian S.L.A. Marshall. The conflict to which he was referring was the Korean War, a war fought, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson observed, in the worst possible location. Read more
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Horrific Fight on Land and Sea
By Mason B. WebbOperation Iceberg, the battle of Okinawa, which lasted from April to June 1945, was the final and largest air-sea-land battle of the Pacific campaign. Read more
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Swashbucklers Of The China Skies
By Mason B. WebbDuring the dark, early days of World War II, when the Imperial Japanese army, navy, and air force were running roughshod over Asia and the Pacific, it seemed that nothing could stop them. Read more
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T.F. Wilson’s Memoir of the Indian Mutiny
By Al HemingwayAlthough the bloody Sepoy insurrection of 1857 was SPARK- ed by the introduction of the new Enfield rifle, the seeds of mistrust between Indian soldiers and their British colonial masters were planted long before that. Read more
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Recalling the devastation of Dresden
By Mason B. WebbIt is highly unusual in the publishing world for two books to come out in the same year on the same topic with the same title (and even the same photo on their covers). Read more
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The Battle for Khartoum
By Al HemingwayHe was known as Mohammed Ahmed and he was born in 1844 at Dirar, a small island near the Third Cataract of the Nile River, in the Sudanese village of Dongala. Read more
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Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
By Al HemingwayHero or scapegoat? Even with the passage of nearly 144 years since the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the rolling hills of southern Pennsylvania, controversy still shadows the role—or lack of role—played by one of General Robert E. Read more
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Submarine warfare is an excellent genre for gaming.
By Eric T. BakerIt is funny how genres come and go. A book becomes a best seller and suddenly there are a plethora of submarine games (and movies). Read more
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History is often stranger than fiction
By Mason B. Webb
Just when one thinks that there could not be another “untold” story about World War II, along comes a writer like Dan Kurzman with a new book about a previously untold story: the Nazis’ plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII. Read more
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New Tarawa book captures horror and heroism of bloody Pacific battle.
By Mason B. WebbOn all sides, shells detonated in bloody geysers, bullets churned the water, which looked as if it were agitated by a storm, and wounded Marines, some hideously disfigured and dying, shouted, even begged, for help.” Read more
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Life of a Colossus
By Al HemingwayTo say that Caius Julius Caesar was one of the most influential men in world history is still something of an understatement. Read more
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The Mystery of the Bulge’s Lost Soldiers
By Mason B. WebbHe dug down to a half-rotted overshoe and tugged it free from the black soil at the bottom of the old foxhole. Read more
