I've often wondered; you put Michael Caine on that island with Toshiro Mifune and Lee Marvin, who wins? Via AG.
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Iain Ballantyne's new book Killing the Bismarck makes a rather controversial claim: As HMS Rodney, HMS King George V, and several attendant cruisers and destroying were pouring shells and torpedoes.
This is awful, but I suspect we're missing the point: The Republican nominee for Congress for Ohio's 9th District, Rich Iott, played a Nazi for years as part of a.
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least on the Western side, the peace settlement was far less draconian, and far more successful,...
This is nothing short of genius: But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes.
I finally watched Valkyrie this week, and I ended up liking it a lot more than I expected. Unlike many critics, I thought that Cruise did a solid job as.
This is one reason why Europeans understand war differently than Americans: An Allied bomb left over from World War II has exploded in Germany, killing three military engineers who were trying to defuse it. The blast occurred in the central city of Goettingen on Tuesday...
Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev's handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and.
Not much would have changed, according to Mark Grimsley. The Spanish would have seized Gibraltar with German assistance, which would have complicated the Allied war effort in the Mediterranean, but.
Underlining this bit of nonsense about the Germans using submarine-towed V-2 launchers to attack the United States during World War II is the implicit assumption that the US is fundamentally unlike other countries, and that piercing US immunity to attack is somehow catastrophic to the...
Your Sunday morning surrender ceremony:I still look forward to the day that Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar surrender on board the USS Ronald Reagan...
I have a review of Vincent O'Hara's Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.