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Category Archives: ww2 book reviews

Battleground Pacific: A Marine Rifleman’s Combat Odyssey in K/3/5 by Sterling Mace and Nick Allen Review

I met Sterling Mace online, after making this rather short post about an interview he gave on a Reddit AMA. Not thinking the post would ever reach him, his response to me personally was about “setting the record straight,” of defining the position of riflemen, in relation to mortarmen, machine gunners, and officers. You see, Sterling […]

Audio Book Reviews

Summer travelers, ATTENTION!!!! Worried about covering long distances with only AM/FM radio? No cash for SAT radio? Listen up: find a computer and DL some audio books. The hours won’t seem as dull and you will have “read” a book, thus making you much more brilliant and literate than any other traveler on the road. […]

“My Name is America” Series

I recently came across a book called The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins – A World War II Soldier – Normandy, France, 1944.  My daughter brought it home from her elementary school library for me to read.   “What the heck,” I thought.  I haven’t read a first person account of the Normandy landings in some […]

William Shirer and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

A review of Shirer’s epic text is here.  The author of the review… he’s pretty good.

WW2 Book Reviews in the Washington Post

The Book World section of the WP has reviews.  Happy reading… The Day of Battle–By Rick Atkinson The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 The Greatest Battle–By Andrew Nagorski Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II