Engineering Hitler’s Downfall
You may have noticed that Christmas is coming and you might be wondering what to get for that difficult so-and-so who usually responds with “nothing”…
Battlefield Histories From Casemate are The Best of Their kind Around Today
Simon Forty is a prolific writer, to say the least. He has built a solid reputation for accuracy and passion for his subject matter and…
The Doolittle Raiders – Sets Out to Tell Us Something of The Lives of The Men
I’ve been sent this really useful book by George Nolta which gives us biographies of the aircrew who took part in the legendary Doolittle Raid…
SHAKY GROUND – Traces of the Great War at the Ypres Salient
This intriguing book begins with a tragedy, in 1979, when the author’s cousin dies from injuries caused from playing with an unexploded shell. Losing the…
British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums Volumes 5, 6 & 7
Richard Perkins is something of a mystery. He built a vast collection of warship photographs he either took himself or acquired through a network of…
Want to Operate an Flak 88? Three Excellent Operator’s Manuals From Haynes
I’m a fan of these Haynes operator’s manuals and there seems to be no end to subjects the publisher is willing to approach. I had…
The SAS Italian Job: Many of those murky events in the spring of 1945 remain governed by secrecy to this day
If you glance through the list of other works by Damien Lewis at the start of the book on offer here, you will see a…
Three Books To Look Out For – Review by Mark Barnes
Here we go, again, with a look at some books that have created positive interest in the WHO reviews department. First up we have this…
The Defeat of the Zeppelins
I make regular visits to annoy my relatives who live nearby and one journey takes me past the memorial close to the site where the…
SHERMAN TANK – Book Review
I’ve mentioned before that I keep tabs on a few social media pages dedicated to tanks. One of them is all for the M4 Sherman…
WAR STUFF – The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War
We all know war is a cruel thing and there is no guarantee that anyone will avoid the misery of it once the juggernaut starts…
Road to Disaster Book Review
I have a friend in Ohio who can be pretty vocal about politics through social media. He always cuts to the chase and uses direct…