Churchill’s Band of Brothers
Churchill’s Band of Brothers – WWII’s Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler’s Fugitive War Criminals,
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World War II
Neptune’s Inferno
Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, by James D. Hornfischer (Bantam Books, 2012, 512 pages) A Masterclass in Naval
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A Young Man of Montana: From Hard Youth to Hawaii Muleskinner
In A Young Man of Montana: From Hard Youth to Hawaii Mule-skinner, Dr. Daniel T. Miller chronicles the story of army soldier Irvin Atchison. He embarks on a journey from the windswept badlands of Sidney, Montana to serve in Hawaii during Imperial Japan’s early conquest of mainland Asia. The Montana of Atchison’s youth was a hard and beautiful place where the Indian Wars and closing of the American West were fresh in history’s memory.
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We Have Ways Pod
From across the Pond comes a highly informative, and extremely entertaining podcast on World War II, titled “We Have Ways”. The name of the show comes both from the very clichéd line, “Vee haf vays of making you talk” used by menacing cinematic Nazi interrogators right up to the first Indiana Jones movie, and also a key laugh line in the 1980s WW II Britcom ‘Allo, ‘Allo (more on that show, and its relevance, later).
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The Marines of Montford Point
The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines, by Melton A. McLaurin (The University of North Carolina Press, 2009,
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