Flying is an inherently dangerous business. Flying for the military is even more dangerous than civilian flying due to the fact that you have people trying to actively shoot you down.
Read MoreThis story should be made into a movie. Not because it is exciting, or gripping, or powerful, or realistic. It is certainly all of those things, and a real page-turner in book form. Instead, this story needs to find a mass media outlet so that the man on the street knows what allied armed forces are going through in the wastelands of the War on Terror.
Read MoreThe Mexican-American War saw the United States in the grips of both xenophobia and a fear and loathing of the Catholic Church. Both of these factors came together to create one of the world’s most unique military organization: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion of the Mexican Army.
Read MoreWar has been described as 90 percent boredom and 10 percent terror, and the war for Jim was no different. What did stand out for Jim were not the rigors of combat, but the deliberate brutality of the Japanese.
Read MoreThe Dead of the Winter is an outstanding book that is a highly recommended read. Future readers will admire the sacrifices of those soldiers who died in the Ardennes.
Read MoreHearn could well be that uncle of yours back from a life at sea as he masterfully puts a face on each character that moved the Aircraft Carrier into the prominence it enjoys today.
Read MoreLearn the story behind the U-boat pens which were high value targets for bombers, commandos, the Free French, and allied ground forces.
Read MoreOne bit of military wisdom states that there are no atheists in the foxhole. Religion and warfare have been intertwined since the dawn of humanity; yet the role of the Chaplain in modern combat has largely been unexplored.
Read MoreThieves of Baghdad is the perfect volume to pick up if your recent reading material has placed you in a bit of a rut. It is one of those rare books that will keep you guessing as to what lies ahead on the next page (or even paragraph). It is a book that will inform, entertain, and make you think. Is there anything more you would want from a book?
Read More"The film's cinematography is wonderful, the dialogue moves the drama along effortlessly, and the depiction of Civil War-era maneuver is admirably accurate. In particular, this is the first film of this genre to correctly show artillery combat."
Read MoreBilly is a street-smart youth from south Boston who convinced his mother to sign the age waiver so he could enlist in the Army. The story begins as his unit calmly ships into the harbor at Inchon. It rapidly evolves into a grueling pressure cooker, as one of the author’s describes in the epilogue “…of men in near primitive conditions, asserting in near primitive terms their right to survive, and turning their wrath on whatever jeopardized that right.†Unit Pride is a gritty and tough Korean War version of All Quiet On The Western Front.
Read MoreFar behind enemy lines, armed only with light weapons, engaged in reconaissance, snatching POWs, marking targets for airstrikes and a host of other high-priority and very hazardous missions. For the men of the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), these tasks were all in a day’s work.
Read MoreSome people are born to greatness. Others have greatness shoved upon them. Still others reinvent their self into greatness. John A. “Black Jack†Logan reinvented himself not once, but twice into greatness, and nearly within a cat's whiskers distance from the White House when he died prematurely from what was described as cerebral rheumatism.
Read MoreIn December 1953, a well-equipped French force of 15,000 of some of that country's best troops placed themselves across communist supply routes on the Laos-Vietnam border. This was essentially a 'dare' for the Viet Minh to attack them. Led by General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Viet Minh took the challenge and ended up laying siege to the French garrison.
Read MoreHis Skyraider was hit by fifty-caliber machine gun bullets fired by communist gunners and crashed, to be rescued by an American Marine flying with the Marine Helicopter Squadron 364 (HMM-364) who had airlifted the South Vietnamese Army troops into the battle.
Read MoreThe Battle of Shiloh by Battlevision is a product aimed at history buffs and those wanting to get to know the details about this particular battle. It is not a game, but the images and interface are similar to what is seen in some wargames. It has an overview (timeline) portion which gives you a step by step walk-through of the conflict at half-hour increments, but the meat of the program is the detailed chapters which go through the battle as it occurred in various portions of the field.
Read MoreInterpreting signs is more science than art. The book gives you details on how to determine speed, direction, a solid guestimate on the number of people in the party, and how to determine the generalized health of and equipment in the chase.
Read MoreThis tremendous fabric gave a deep roll with the swell to leeward, then back to windward; and on her return every mast went by the board, leaving her an unmanageable hulk on the water. Her immense topsails had every reef out, her royals were sheeted home but lowered, and the falling mass of spars, sails and rigging, plunging into the water at the muzzles of our guns, was one of the most magnificent sights I ever beheld.
Read MoreThe author understands that a ship is more than a collection of steel, and, in this case, teak and canvas. The crew was the family aboard the ship, but the Captain was her heart and soul.
Read MoreThe first black officers in the United States Navy were commissioned under the “V†program. Still confined to shore billets or all black small units, they proved they had all the tools to be successful officers.
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