Mark Harris weaves an intriguing story of five top-notch motion-picture directors that abandoned their careers in Hollywood and joined the military to help win World War II by producing documentary, propaganda, and information films. He has integrated numerous moving parts into a coherent tale with keen interest. It’s a heavy book that deserves a careful […]
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Thoughts About D-Day, 6 June 1944
We thank and honor the men who landed on the Normandy beaches on June 6th 1944. All are heroes. I was fifteen years old when we heard a radio announcer blurt that the Allies had landed on the beaches in northern France. Involved were 130,000 Allied soldiers from USA, Britain, Canada, and the Free French. There was […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Guns of Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944 to 1945 Volume III by Rick Atkinson
The Guns of Last Light, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2013, 877 pp. Contents, 29 maps, photographs, Notes, 167 pp.; Selected Sources, 28 pp,; Acknowledgements, 6 pp.; Index, 26 pp. Volume Three of Atkinson’s liberation trilogy details the exploits of the United States Army in North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe during World War […]
The Last Prophecy, Jon Land Book Review
I’ve seen this book many times past. Not exactly this one book but other books, films, and tales with the same basic plot: intrepid adventurers discover an ancient and secret writing or glyph well hidden in some exotic/dangerous/gruesome local. Only some obscure university professor/retired cryptographer/computer geek can decode this mysterious writing. Meantime, eeevil (keep “eeevil”) […]
Beretta 32 Caliber Semi-Automatic Pistol
The Beretta is a magazine-fed, semi-automatic pistol that fires the 32 ACP* caliber bullet. Beretta first introduced this pistol in 1935, and produced approximately 500,000 copies in various models. The Italian armed forced adopted the Beretta 32 ACP as the standard service firearm in 1937. The German Wehrmact used the pistol in 1944 and 1945. […]