The Nazi-Soviet War was the Largest Land Battle Ever Fought Excellent read on Operation Barbarossa with some really nice pictures. For all my fellow Military Historians out there, here is a short list on the subject: Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Russia’s War: A History of the…
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Know Your WW2 History: The Forgotten Soldier – Guy Sajer
The Forgotten Soldier – Guy Sajer Fantastic snippet from the book The Forgotten Soldier. Some of the BEST Military History of WW2 was written by German Soldiers and their experiences during the War. Keep in mind while you are reading that this is a 16 year old boy witnessing and enduring the horrors of…
Urban Warfare, Back in the Day
URBAN WARFARE, BACK IN THE DAY Current headlines are replete with stories of urban warfare. Be it Aleppo, Ramadi, Tripoli or some Ukrainian city you only learned of last year, there appears to be no shortage of combatants that want to fight in/over/for some piece of urban terrain. Perhaps a brief step back in to…
OACOK* For Home Defense Terrain Analysis
OACOK* For Home Defense Terrain Analysis Refresh your brain on OAKOC. Highly recommend you have a flash drive for such material and keep it in your Go-Bag
How this BADASS US Unit didn’t Lose a Single Man While TERRORISING the Japanese
How this BADASS US Unit didn’t Lose a Single Man While TERRORISING the Japanese I had read a book on the Alamo Scouts a few years back and the desctiption of the training here was accurate. Just to make it fun the blind fold test was done at night in the Pacific Jungle! Ouch….
Pacific Profiles Book Review
WW2 Military History Reference Books.
12 Military Novels That Need to be Adapted into Movies or TV Series
12 Military Movies and TV Shows That We Desperately Need Right Now Off the top of my head I would also add: Outlaw Platoon, Roughneck Nine-One, The Lion’s Gate and Not a Good Day to Die. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Ordnance P-38 Lightning
I remember reading Fork Tailed Devil as a kid and after that building every P-38 model I could find and reading every book.
Some Civil War History You Were Not Taught in School
Lincoln’s Kind of “Soldier” The American History You’re Not Supposed to Know I have been a huge fan of Mr. DiLorenzo’s work ever since I read The Real Lincoln over a decade ago. I urge all of you to dive into all of Mr. DiLorenzo’s books and articles and get a fresh,…