The 2009 Military History Weekend, sponsored by Casemate Publishing, W. Britain, and Osprey Publishing, is slated for Oct. 16-18 in Williamsburg, Va. There are numerous activities planned for adults and kids alike including:
Book signings, with authors such as “Band of Brothers” member Col. Eddie Shames of the WWII 101st Airborne
Vintage military vehicles and equipment on [...]
Of course we couldn’t let this weekend go by without going to see Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s new revenge WWII movie. We both think it was worth spending our hard-earned cash (what little we have of it) on a movie ticket!
Here’s Anna’s take on the movie:
I’m not as big of a Quentin Tarantino fan as [...]
In Canada, researchers unwittingly may have solved the disappearance of a U.S. Airforce amphibious airplane, which allegedly sank in the seaway on November 2, 1942, during rough weather.
The Canadian underwater archeologists were working on a nearby project when the wreck was uncovered. The amphibious aircraft was the product of U.S. and Canadian collaboration during WWII.
Since [...]
Monday’s Movie is a meme sponsored by A Novel Menagerie.
Over the weekend, my husband and I watched Defiance, starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schrieber.
The Bielski brothers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael, and Aron, saved about 1200 Jews during WWII in Belorussia. The brothers formed the Bielski Partisans.
The brothers fled to the woods in German-occupied Poland and [...]
Recently, Caitlyn of OnlyGoodMovies.com informed us that she had linked to the War Through the Generations blog in the list of WWII movies that her site compiled that must be seen.
Lucky for us the link she is using is for the book of From Here to Eternity, which was written by James Jones and reviewed [...]
Recently The Bookworm’s Hideout posted a great post about her days in a musical group and how her recent reading of Slaughterhouse Five reminded her of Daniel Bukvich’s “Symphony No. 1 In Memoriam Dresden.”
Please check out the YouTube video she located of the Washington High School Symphonic Band from Sioux Falls, SD, playing that exact [...]
Sixty-four years ago on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and just three days later on August 9, 1945, dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
The first bomb dropped on Japan was called “Little Boy” (image found on Wikipedia):
The first bomb was dropped after an ultimatum was ignored by the [...]
We just wanted to share with everyone some really great articles and blog postings related to WWII and the Holocaust.
August 4, 1944, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi police, check out Rhapsody in Books blog post about the incident.
Have you read Anne Frank’s Diary or any other books related to her life? What did [...]
Lynda from Lynda’s Book Blog recently reviewed The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Beer with Susan Dworkin.
Click here to see what she thought of the book.
**Attention participants: Remember to email us a link to your reviews, and we’ll post them here so we can see what everyone is [...]
A couple of participants have reviewed Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom for the WWII challenge. Here’s what they had to say:
Michele from A Reader’s Respite says:
Not much to say here, as this novel was nearly as perfect as a novel can be. From a historical perspective, Sansom’s research is a wonder and more importantly, [...]
