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Solomons Air War Book Review: Volumes 1 and 2

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Tue, 12/17/2024 - 22:15

Combined, the two initial volumes of the Solomons Air War series offer a detailed and richly illustrated look at the August-October 1942 campaign in the air over Guadalcanal and the seas around the island. Readers can find my review here.

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Villers-Bocage Book Review

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Fri, 08/09/2024 - 16:28

Our latest reviews have had a heavy German Eastern Front focus. This month we turn our attention west to Normandy during the summer of 1944. There, one of the most mythologized battles of the Second World War unfolded in a clash of armor that resonates to this day. That is the subject of this month's book review.

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Stalingrad Book Review Published

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 17:33

Our prior book reviw focused on the remembrances of German combatants at Stalingrad. This month's review tackles a book focused on the Soviet side. Perhaps even more so than my last book reviewed (and given the ubiquity of German memoirs, interviews, and first-person accounts of the battle), this rare look at what actual Soviet participants in the battle experience and felt is something you should not pass over.

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Survivors of Stalingrad Book Review Published

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 17:54

Stalingrad is a battle that fascinates on so many levels. Survivors of Stalingrad offers yet another. This book's searing first-person descriptions as to what it was like to survive the hell that was the final months of the German Sixth Army's existence during the winter of 1942-1943 is truly a must-read.

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The Battle of Stalingrad: Then and Now Book Review

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Sun, 02/25/2024 - 20:30

Photographic research can be a powerful adjunct to primary documents and secondary sources such as operational military history, memoirs, journal articles, and other such publications. The Battle of Stalingrad: Then and Now is a great example of that idea.

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