It has been known by many names over the course of history, the earliest recorded identification of emotional or psychological disorders affecting a man’s combat ability by a medical source comes from the U.S. Civil War, when Union Surgeon Dr. Jacob Da Costa, called the ...

With the two German military disasters on the eastern front, one in front of Moscow in the winter of 1941/42 and the other on the lower Volga River at Stalingrad in the late summer and winter of 1942/43, the loss of manpower in these two ...

During the writing of my recent book Why Normandy Was Won:  Operation Bagration and the War In the East 1941 – 1945 (Ostfront Publications, LLC, 458 pp 2010) one of the recurring obstacles I confronted was obtaining accurate data and information as well as getting ...

The Beach Reading Model and the historical endurance of paper medium It was two winters ago. I was on New York’s Long Island with my wife Sally visiting relatives over the Christmas/New Year’s holiday. Because of recent family moves and relocations we joined my brother ...

It was the perfect battle of annihilation. In the summer of 1944 the Roman battle of Cannae in Italy was replayed on the Berezina in Russia In the opening days and weeks of the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy in June 1944, the ether ...

Introduction: Thank you: John Hart & Pres. Henry Hartman             A. Personal                         1. Activities: HAHS Co-Chair Museum Committee, Trustee w/ Eisenhower Society, EISE volunteer work, York County Literacy Council Adult Reading Program.                         2. U.S. Army 1968 – 1971 D/E&MS and NCOIC “Sprint” ...

Ken Weiler has published a new book dealing with the Soviet contribution that insured the success of the Allied invasion at Normandy on June 6, 1944. Entitled Why Normandy Was Won:  Operation Bagration and the War In the East 1941 – 1945 (Ostfront Publications, LLC ...