ACG WebOps (18 November 2007)

Jim H. Moreno | November 18, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

Books - Movies - TV

Murray Polner: Review of David Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (Hyperion, 2007) - History News Network

Officially titled “The Coldest Winter,” this is by far his finest work, told with verve, insights and penetrating portraits of the suffering of GIs and junior officers.

Germany then, Iraq now: On the interpretation of nightmares - globeandmail.com

When historian Giles MacDonogh submitted the 600-page manuscript for his book After the Reich this year, he thought that he had written a comprehensive history of Germany in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Instead, he has realized in recent weeks that what he has written is a book about Iraq.

Blogs - Netcasts

The Great Supply Chain of Being - Investigations of a Dog

Colt Weapon Company - Military History Blog on the Web

Help support Army History - Military History Blog

Walking the Road from Slavery to Freedom With John Washington - Civil War Memory

Websites

Lewis Lapham: Former Harper’s editor starts history magazine - History News Network

Lapham’s Quarterly

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