Saturday, July 09, 2011

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CANADIAN SOLDIERS SAY "ADIOS, AFGHANISTAN!" Pleased to say, Canadian troops are being withdrawn from Afghanistan, as of today --...
Monday, June 20, 2011

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Was Hiram Maxim's invention of the machine-gun sparked by a boyhood accident caused to his mother? Countless millions of people have...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

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The spin doctors view of WW II Recently, I watched a re-run of a National Geographic TV documentary called The Bombing Of Germany . While...

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The proliferation of e-mail that has almost done away with hand-written letters could have a harmful effect on the future of military histor...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

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  NAZI SABOTEURS CAME TO BLOW UP AMERICA On June 13 and June 17, 1942, two groups of German sabotage agents landed from U-boats on shore...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

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HISTORICAL IGNORANCE My favorite incidence of historical ignorance was told by my late friend, ex-Chief Master Sergeant Lucien Thomas DF...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

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                KRUGER'S GOLD : A novel of the Anglo-Boer War by Sidney Allinson. Reader's review, by Renee Cox: Sidney Alli...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

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Soldiers don't start wars. Politicians start wars.                               --- William Westmoreland
Friday, March 25, 2011

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SEX SCENES IN MILITARY-THEMED NOVELS . True, I included sex scenes in three of my military-themed novels, but without lingering on the ob...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

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HOW TO CURE WIDESPREAD IGNORANCE OF MILITARY HISTORY Writers of military history and historical novels in general have a personal interest...

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BRITAIN'S VIEW OF THE ALLIED AIR-STRIKES AGAINST LIBYA. ‘Turbulent world, lately, isn’t it? (2011) To people my age, it seems quite...
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ALLIED AIR-STRIKES AGAINST GADHAFFI'S LIBYA. Here we go again --- Western nations are once more allies in a thankless war. As we spea...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

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MOST YOUNG CANADIANS ARE IGNORANT OF THEIR NATION'S MILITARY HISTORY By Don Butler, Postmedia News March 14, 2011. Most young Cana...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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MAX BRAND -- AMERICA'S MOST PROLIFIC NOVELIST Max Brand [Frederick Schiller Faust] probably was the most prolific American novelist e...

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COMBAT "COMBAT" -- A NOVEL OF WWII. Several American novelists who had served in WWII wrote only a single book, usually base...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

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"Hachiko" Bronze Statue, Tokyo, Japan. FAITHFUL JAPANESE DOG'S  9-YEAR VIGIL FOR HIS HUMAN FRIEND  There are many accounts o...

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TOGETHER FOREVER In life, this brave British soldier, Lance Corporal Liam Tasker, and his devoted dog "Theo" were inseparable. ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

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    Famed WWII poet Pilot Officer John Magee (far right) with his fellow pilot trainees: l-r: Fred Heather, Tom Gain, Duncan Fowler, at #9 E...

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Lee Harvey Oswald, lone assassin of US President John F. Kennedy. REVISIONISM -- CULT OF THE CREDULOUS Writing about historical events o...
Friday, March 04, 2011

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Why Americans Can't Help But Keep Playing Britain’s National Anthem Americans are thoroughly familiar with the melody of God Save Th...