New in MiWSR
A review of Megan Cassidy-Welch, War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade, by David Stewart Bachrach, University of New Hampshire.
James P. Holoka, editor
Thanks for alerting us to this kerfuffle within the Naval subculture. Two questions: did the Royal Navy have a more devoted cheerleader than Alfred Thayer Mahan? And might this not be simply a case of the Mother Country's reflexive snobbery toward us shabby Colonials?
New in MiWSR
A review of Anthony Lambert, Britain’s Railways in Wartime: The Nation’s Lifeline, by Thomas Spain, National Railway Museum, York.
James P. Holoka, editor
New in MiWSR
A review of Trevor Albertson, Winning Armageddon: Curtis LeMay and Strategic Air Command, 1948–1957, by Simon J. Moody, King’s College London.
James P. Holoka, editor
New in MiWSR
A review of Marcus Faulkner and Christopher M. Bell, eds., Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War, by Alan M. Anderson, Norwich University.
James P. Holoka, editor
Hi
About 2 PDR HE. Australi produced its own version - mainly for use in Staghound Armored cars (post war) and Matilda and Sentinal tanks during the war.
They found that (particularly in the tanks) against Japanese bunker positions they needed a base fused HE round to allow the necessary delay to penetrate the bunker before initiating.
Whenever I read something like this I am amazed at how Jon House is completely neglected. It is known, especially among those of us who worked with him while he was at the US Army Command and General Staff college (twice, once as a young officer and later as a civilian professor), that Jonathan House is a fantastic military historian and has done much to take the encyclopedic, but verbose, writing of Dave Glantz and "synthesize" it into a more accessible narrative, analysis, and often both.
The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 1-12 June is as follows:
Week of 01 June:
