OPERATION STORM – Review by Mark Barnes
We’re getting near the time of year when I have been asked to produce a ‘books of the year’ feature. This one is just in…
BATTLE FLEET 2 – Review by James Barnes
This is an indie naval strategy game set in the Pacific during World War II focusing on the fighting between Japan and the United…
Should Women Be Allowed to Kill and Be Killed on the Battlefield?
The British are renewing a debate about the role of women in combat. While they serve in artillery units and in other roles in engineering…
Befriending the Germans after the War
After World War II, Anthony Brook, along with his parents and siblings, spent five years of his childhood living in a house in Hamburg with…
Swiss company apologizes for pictures of dictators on coffee creamers
Swiss coffee lovers were shocked this week when they discovered pictures of Mussolini and Hitler on dairy creamers found in restaurants owned by retail giant…
A WWII Veteran Recounts Aerial Reconnaissance Missions
In order to obtain key intelligence about the location, activities and movements of the enemy, the Allied Powers relied heavily on aerial reconnaissance. The photographs…
Hitler Invades the Soviet Union and Churchill Pledges Support
June 22th marks the anniversary of the British pledge to aid the Russians in stopping a German assault on Russian soil. It is also the…
Restoration of the Matilda Battle Tank
The memories of the World War II etched in the minds of veterans are fading as we get deeper into the 21st century. To keep…
Richard Wagner and the Third Reich
Many comparisons can be drawn between Richard Wagner and Adolf Hitler. Both are regarded as strongly anti-Semitic, and both believed that German culture needed to…
GERMAN WARSHIP SERIES BACK IN PRINT – Review by Mark Barnes
If we think about the Kreigsmarine during World War II the pictures coming immediately into our heads will be of U-Boats or the famous capital…
THE OLD FRONT LINE – Review by Mark Barnes
Back in the 1980s when it was still possible to walk areas of the Western Front and find a considerable amount of the debris of…
When Paris Went Dark – Review by Nate Sullivan
On the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, the complexities concerning the role of France in World War II are more evident than ever.…