New in MiWSR
A review of Julian Walker, Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary, by Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
James P. Holoka, editor
New in MiWSR
A review of Peter Fey, Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War, by Michael Hankins, Air Command and Staff College.
James P. Holoka, editor
New in MiWSR
A review of Dwight R. Messimer, Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915, by Jeff Schultz, Luzerne County Community College.
James P. Holoka, editor
Historicon is the premier historical wargaming convention on the east coast. This year, the convention is being held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at the Lancaster County Convention Center.
I am running Historicon's War College this year, we are looking for military historians and game designers to give lectures, seminars, and round tables on topics of interest to historical war gamers during the convention.
This year's theme is jungle warfare, but any topic related to warfare is welcome.
The two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century, World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939 - 1945), wrought extraordinary levels of destruction.
New in MiWSR
A review of James Crossland, War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914, by Allan A. Ryan, Harvard University.
James P. Holoka, editor
As previous posters have pointed out, there is lots of information available about topics such as Japanese radar, it is just hard to find compared to information on American, British and German radar. My guess is that the only way to get detailed information of the type that Trent Telenko wants would be by searching Japanese sources. I have been told that a vast amount of material exists, in Japanese, on the Pacific War. But in doing a very limited amount of searching online, I did come up with this:
New in MiWSR
A review of William M. Waddell III, In the Year of the Tiger: The War for Cochinchina, 1945–1951, by Élie Tenenbaum, Institut Français des Relations Internationales.
James P. Holoka, editor
I just watched the opening episode of a new military drama series on CBS, “The Code.” About USMC Judge Advocate General trial lawyers. I had to check it out, in part because in those long ago days when I was a lieutenant and later captain in the Air Force, I sat on my share of courts-martial. Never for a capital case, naturally, but for plenty of lesser offenses such as theft, assault and battery, drug use, and (more seriously) desertion and disobedience of orders, i.e., re
