A hidden stash of Hitler's private art collection has been found. What's more, and rather uniquely, this time it appears the seven discovered paintings may have included items he might have actually bought. Normally, Hitler and his cronies were more likely to have stolen whatever it is they acquired.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 27 2012 - 10:48pm
Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 23 2012 - 7:48pm
As most of you by now probably know, I normally don't write anything about the book in the blog. That said, I thought everybody would like to see some of the coverage it has been getting. Anyway, here are two direct links to news articles (both are really more about me and the writing process rather than the book's content):
Attorney's Book Challenges Traditional View of WWII
Book Details How Germany Came Close to Winning War
In addition, the wire services picked up the second article so
Review Type: In the News, Reviews, Steven Mercatante, Why Germany Nearly Won
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 23 2012 - 7:25pm
On February 23, 1945 Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press took perhaps one of the most remembered pictures of World War II: the raising of the US Flag over Iwo Jima's most dominating physical feature - Mount Suribachi. Rosenthal's image was actually of the second flag raising. The first had been done earlier in the morning by men of the 5th Marine Division, but this second raising would be of a larger flag.
All told five U.S. Marines and one U.S.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 20 2012 - 9:34pm
On February 19, 1942 the President of the United States issued Executive Order 9066 - the order that set in motion the process whereby 120,000 mostly US citizens of Japanese descent were interned in camps for the remainder of the Second World War. The majority of those interned were natural born US citizens. In addition a significant minority were resident aliens or naturalized citizens. Finally, a small minority were German-American and Italian-American.
Following his arrest U.S.
Review Type: FDR, internment camp, Japanese-American, Korematsu, Nissei, Pacific Theater of Operations, Supreme Court, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 17 2012 - 3:29pm
Early in 1943 the Red Army had launched a series of massive offensives across the breadth of the German Eastern Front. In particular, and as the German Sixth Army fought to its destruction at Stalingrad, multiple Soviet fronts, spearheaded by General N.F. Vatutin's Southwestern Front, surged across southern Russia.
Review Type: Army Group South, Cavalry Corps, Donbas, Eastern Front, Kharkov, Manstein, Panzer Corps, Red Army, Southern Front, Southwestern Front, Stalin, Tank Corps, Vatutin, Voronezh Front, Wehrmacht, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 13 2012 - 11:50pm
The Battle for Kasserine Pass began on February 14, 1943 and to this day ranks as one of the worst American military performances in the twentieth century. That said, as bad as the Battle for Kasserine Pass went it could have been a lot worse.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 8 2012 - 11:28pm
It is the end of an era. The final living WWI veteran, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) waitress Florence Green, passed away at age 110. Green served in the RAF for the war's final two months in 1918, having joined at the age of 17.
Though WWI is often overshadowed by WWII it is important to remember the tremendous impact the First World War had on modern history.
Review Type: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Cold War, German Empire, Ottoman Empire, RAF, Russian Empire, World War II, World War One, WWI
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 5 2012 - 4:51pm
On or about February 5, 1945 one of the remarkable heroes of the French Resistance and British Special Operations Executive (SOE) - Violette Szabo - was executed by the Nazi's following her July 1944 capture. Born in Paris on on June 26, 1921 Violette's familiy moved to London during her childhood. During WWII she joined the SOE.
Following her training and early in April 1944 Violette parachuted into German occupied France.
Review Type: British Special Operations Executive, France, French Resistance, Maquis, Ravensbruk, SOE, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 3 2012 - 4:29pm
On November 23,1942, and following the November 19, 1942 beginning of Operation Uranus, the spearheads from the Soviet Southwest and Stalingrad fronts, met at Kalach to Stalingrad’s west. They had cut off the entire German 6th Army and part of the 4th Panzer Army in a massive pocket.
Review Type: Army Group A, Army Group B, Eastern Front, German 6th Army, Kalach, Paulus, Red Army, Stalingrad, Stalingrad Front, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Feb 1 2012 - 5:44pm
Last week the US Air Force announced, as part of a proposed series of budget cuts, that it was planning on cutting five squadrons of what has been perhaps the most useful manned aircraft in the Air Force's inventory over the past three decades: the A-10 Thunderbolt II. In turn, only one F-15 and one F-16 squadron would be cut even though our military hasn't faced seriously contested airspace at virtually any point this century.
What's more, neither the F-15 or F-16 have proven themselves as
