Curse of the Narrows
By Laura M. Mac Donald
Reviewed by James M. Gallen
Walker Publishing Company, Inc. New York, 2005
As most War History Network readers know, the trenches, barbed wire and No Man’s Land were Over There, but on December 6, 1917 T
Read more…The Fighters: Americans In Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
By C. J. Chivers
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
The Fighters” presents War History Network readers with a through the gunsights views. This is “little history”, as seen through the eyes of individu
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The Great Halifax Explosion
By John U. Bacon
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
North American images of the Great War focus on pictures of trenches scaring the French countryside, aircraft swirling above No Man’s Land and reports of the sinking of the Lusitan
Read more…Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, And The Rush To War
By Robert H. Latiff
University of Notre Dame Press, 2022
978-0-268-20189-0
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
War History Network readers usually focus on past wars, but our interests also encompass con
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How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
By Susan Eisenhower
Thomas Dunne Books, 2020
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
I was motivated to read How Ike Led by a coming book club featuring the author sponsored by the Eisenhower Preside
Read more…Book review: Night by Elie Wiesel
Reviewed by Scott Lyons
It could be argued that there might be no more horrific event in modern history than the extermination of more than six million Jews by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Of those who
Read more…MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY: WISCONSIN AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE CIVIL WAR
By Jeff Kannel
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
War History Network members will enjoy this recent Civil War publication of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press focusing on the African Amer
Read more…The Splendid and The Vile tells the story of Winston Churchill’s first year in office, 1940-1941, from the perspectives of its main characters. Winston Churchill is seen in his public, political, personal and familial personae. Clementine Churchill
Read more…THIS WICKED REBELLION:WISCONSIN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WRITE HOME
Edited by John Zimm
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
We are confronted with thousands, of Civil War books, the fruits of historical research by historians, both renowned and unknown. What is new
Read more…Wisconsin Women in the War between the States
By Ethel Alice Hurn
Reviewed by Jim Gallen
“Wisconsin Women in the War between the States” a facsimile of a 1911 edition by Ethel Alice Hurn published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. It has
Read more…War History Network members may wonder, are there any new rays of insight into the Civil War that have not passed through the prisms of countless historians? Author Chris DeRose has found one. America began the War with an unprecedented, and unt
Read more…SAVING MY ENEMY: HOW TWO WWII SOLDIER FOUGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER AND LATER FORGED A FRIENDSHIP THAT SAVED THEIR LIVES by Bob Welch (Regnery History, 2021)
Written in narrative nonfiction, SAVING MY ENEMY weaves the true-life tale of two soldiers, one
Read more…THE UNWANTED by Peter Clenott (Level Best Books, 2022)
Fans of "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein will love THE UNWANTED by Peter Clenott (Level Best Books, 2022), a WWII novel set mainly in Germany from 1939-1947. (I enjoyed this book more than
Read more…American readers usually approach the Revolutionary War/War of Independence through American eyes. A Very Fine Regiment is an opportunity to read about it from the perspective of a British Regiment. The 47th Foot that was involved in many of the Re
Read more…Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives, reply below. After the giveaway has ended, send me your mailing address, via our internal email system.
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Read more…A new book by Alex Kershaw, I got it today. Will start reading this weekend.
The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
By Alex Kershaw, author
Short review by Scott Lyons
If you could keep just one book on D-Day in your library, The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice just might b
Read more…I got this book today: the title in English is: Till Death do us Part.
The book is about the marriages in camp Westerbork. From this camp the Jews were deported to the East. 261 couples married in the camp. 75% of the couples didn't survive the war.
Read more…I got the book today, the Dutch copy. Gonna start reading it this weekend. I don't know what to think about it. There is a lot of bad publicity about the book here in Holland.
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