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Jim H. Moreno | May 27, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

Books - Movies - TV

2007 William E. Colby Military History Awards - CARL Book Beacon

The William E. Colby Military Writers’ Symposium honors fiction and non-fiction writers for stories in military history and intelligence operations. The 2007 awardees were Jon Glusman for "Conduct under Fire" and Ian Toll for his epic "Six frigates : the epic history of the founding of the U.S. Navy."

Blogs - Netcasts

Shamil Basayev-Chechnya’s Bin Laden (2) - Military History Podcast

Shamil Basayev became involved in the nearby Dagestan War after he lost his bid for president. This prompted Vladimir Putin to launch the Second Chechen War, which successfully reclaimed Grozny for the Russians. Since then, Chechnya has been officially under Russian control, but there is still a strong insurgency.

Everyone knows you can’t make a World War I game - Investigations of a Dog

Still catching up on things that I meant to write weeks ago. Last month there was a post at Glod’n’Epix about First World War computer games. Esther linked to this Guardian article about a planned WWI FPS and was rightly critical of its assumptions that there aren’t any WWI games and the spurious reasons for that. As she points out, there are loads of First World War games, but I’m going to attack from a different angle.

World War II: Bismarck Sunk! - about.com: Military History

May 27, 1941 - After a five day chase across the North Atlantic, British naval forces sink the German battleship Bismarck(left).

Short Stirling - Military History Blog on the Web

The Short Stirling was the first of the four engined "heavies" to enter RAF service, but was also the first to be withdrawn.

Pro-Union Southerners - World History Blog

I was surprised to read about the 1st Alabama Cavalry today. This unit was from the deep south and it fought for the Union during the American Civil War. I had no idea that such a unit ever existed!

Bad ACW history: an explanation - Civil War Bookshelf

The magazine Nature has gone a long way toward explaining why Civil War history (and other pop history) is so awful:

Military History Museum - Mango shake, anyone??

Saturday, on a sudden urge to be a tourist, I went to the Military History Museum. It is a couple blocks from the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, and across the street from a big statue of Lenin, with flowers and people playing badminton and people doing tai chi and ladies selling bananas and teenagers making out while perched on their motorbikes. Just like everywhere else in Hanoi.

Podcast: New York’s Military History - The New York Times (audio)

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