Showing posts with label World War II (other). Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II (other). Show all posts
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Top secret: The role of spying and code-cracking in the World Wars

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In the 1970s, a British television network made a series called  “The World at War,”  possibly the most comprehensive television history ev...

How much was Latin America involved in the World Wars?

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Anecdote about the European blockade of Venezuela, in the early twentieth century In 1902, three European nations imposed a  naval blockade...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Asia and the Pacific

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit special caution. We a...
Friday, October 11, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”

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A miniseries covering Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt Just as the Americans remember  Mr. Churchill , so do t...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

What fascism is (and why it stinks)

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Warning: This blog post contains a disturbing picture, related to the Holocaust. It seems that people in most political movements will event...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Africa, the Middle East, and Italy

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“♪ We’re the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy, Always on the vino, always on the spree. Eighth Army skivers and their tanks, We go to war in ties...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

A review of PBS’s “Eleanor Roosevelt” movie

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“A snub is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior. To do so, he has to find someone who can be made to...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

A review of “Mussolini: The History of Italian Fascism”

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“I have never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Paraphrase of defense lawyer Clarence Darrow , in ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A review of PBS’s “Asian Americans”

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“ … from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the pa...
Monday, November 11, 2019

A review of “Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed the World”

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“[There shall be a] Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the following war material: Five thousand guns (2,500 heavy, and ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

The Nuremberg trials: A comparison of two movies

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Warning: This post contains some disturbing pictures related to the Holocaust. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Why we allied with Soviet Russia during World War II, and then fought against it later on

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"The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[,] desirous of strengthening the ca...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

The Marshall Plan: Helping the poor, keeping the peace, and stopping the communists

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"If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for...
Monday, November 12, 2012

The American Veteran

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The picture is of my Marine grandfather (1921-2011), who saw  intense combat in the Pacific  in  World War II . He never had loss of li...