Tag American History
Happy Veterans Day To all my fellow veterans! Somebody has to be at the pointy end of the stick and you all took up the challenge, Today is Veteran’s Day in the US and Armistice Day in Britain and France…. Continue Reading →
Happy Veterans Day To all my fellow veterans! Somebody has to be at the pointy end of the stick and you all took up the challenge, Today is Veteran’s Day in the US and Armistice Day in Britain and France…. Continue Reading →
Enhanced Interrogation is the book that should have been written 10 years ago when the hype about America torturing captured terrorists was at its height. Unfortunately, it has only appeared now when false “facts” and attitudes towards the interrogation of… Continue Reading →
Never Forget Today is Pearl Harbor Day, 75 years ago this morning at 0755 Hawaiian time the Japanese Navy began its attack on the US Navy Fleet anchorage in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The attack lasted for two and a half… Continue Reading →
The Huntington Library in California is asking for the public’s help in decoding an archive of thousands of Civil War telegrams in the library’s possession. According to the Library’s News Release there are over 15,000 telegrams from top members of the… Continue Reading →
The 2014 US Army Chief of Staff Professional Reading List (PRL) was released in the Summer of 2014 and I was relieved in the extreme to see that there was only one novel on the list, Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer. The… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] This is a repost of a review that originally appeared on the… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] When most folks think of Military History they naturally think of… Continue Reading →
I picked up In The Company Of Heroes by Michael Durant recently because it was something I always wanted to read but never got around to. I am glad I did. For those in the military back in the early 1990’s… Continue Reading →
This is a guest post and infographic about the history of nursing in the US Military. Few careers give you the chance to have a profound impact on the course of history like nursing. Since the birth of the United… Continue Reading →
If you are a history geek like me, and I assume you are because you are reading the blog, then here is a project that should be interesting. In the late 90’s and early 00’s there was a much bandied… Continue Reading →
Happy Veterans Day! To all my fellow veterans, I say thank you for your service and dedication in protecting this great nation from her enemies, both foreign and domestic
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power is one of those books that when you are done reading it you cannot quite decide if it was worth reading or not. If you want to know what… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 is one… Continue Reading →
The Battle of Antietam is interesting for several reasons the most important of which for me is that it is the single bloodiest day in American military history. There have been bloodier battles in American wars but no single day… Continue Reading →