I finished book 60 which was Peter Caddick-Adams (@militaryhistori), "Snow & Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45". This is a most excellent book on the Battle of the Bulge. This book is greatly detailed with an excellent narrative which makes it very readable.

It was a most excellent book and I recommend it highly.

#Books #Reading #BookLog #JimsBooks #wwii #wwiibooks

A love story set in London, spanning the wartime years of 1942-1945 forms the crux of Millie Bobby Brown's debut novel.
#BookReview #MillieBobbyBrown #Stranger #WWII
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/book-review-millie-bobby-brown-of-stranger-things-weaves-a-romance-novel-into-a-wwii-disaster-101694492497379.html

Our latest post on the @ucdlibrary Cultural Heritage blog borrows the title of Carolle J. Carter’s book to tell the story of the arrest of a Nazi German spy who lived in Ireland for a year and a half before being caught.
##IrishHistory #WWII #TheEmergency

ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2023/09/07/the-shamrock-and-the-swastika/

View of Jura mountains. Geneva, 1939.
This watercolor was lost ( probably seized ) during WWII in Yugoslavia e only recently discovered in a private collection.

#romanbilinskiart #jura #geneva #wwii #novecento #lost #artarchive #polish

Eccidio di #Nola, la prima strage nazista in #Italia

#UnoStoria #fascismo #nazismo #WWII

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccidio_di_Nola

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits offers a timely reminder: a display about Canadian internees in WWII. You can see it in the Ottawa War Museum.

#internment #canada #freedom
#persecution #prejudice #WWII

Today's poem:

Barracks Home
- by Tojo Suyemoto Kawakami

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/728056004888117248/barracks-home?source=share

#WWII #internment #prejudice #imprisonment #xenophobia #racism #crime #freedom #poetry #TojoSuyemotoKawakami #utah

📚 #lecture #WWII #histodon Une enquête sensible d’Elise Karlin à partir des Archives Arolsen.
Le « bureau d’éclaircissements des destins » permet une archéologie de la mémoire ou comment la restitution des effets personnels des deporté•es contribue à lutter contre leur oubli.

This is an awesome video!!

Battlefield Return // Holland // WWII Veteran Lies Down In Foxhole With NFL Player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd6S8m07Md8

"In September we were fortunate enough to bring 6 #WWII #veterans back to #Holland. For many of them, they were visiting places they hadn't been back to in 74 years. Places where they experienced some of the worst moments of their lives and where they experienced the closest brotherhood you'll ...

Looking foward to reading the next episode of Alex Beer’s « Isaak Rubinstein » in the crime novel called « Unter Woelfen ».

#CrimeNovel #Austria 🇦🇹 🔪 💣 🔫 #Nuremberg #photography #WWII #books #booklover #BooksofMastodon #mastobooks

The remains of British airmen shot down by the Nazis over Dutch waters may have been discovered in a massive rescue operation.

With the help of a €15m national plane-wreck rescue fund, the Dutch have started to sift the wreckage of the British Lancaster ED603, which never returned from a mass bombing mission targeting Bochum in Germany on 13 June 1943.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/remains-found-in-search-for-crew-of-british-bomber-shot-down-by-nazis

#Netherlands #UK #WorldWar2 #WWII #Airmen #Aircraft #Nazis

#TIL: #COVID19 has killed more #Americans than the #CivilWar, #WWI, #WWII, #KoreanWar, #Vietnam, #Iraq, and #Afghanistan COMBINED.

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Remains found in search for crew of British bomber shot down by Nazis | Second world war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/remains-found-in-search-for-crew-of-british-bomber-shot-down-by-nazis

#History #WWII

#Hungary's transportation minister gets sharp criticism for comments praising #Nazi-allied #WWII leader

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hungarys-transportation-minister-gets-sharp-criticism-comments-praising-102957208

This evening I was coaxed by a friend into going to London to see #OperationMincemeat (a #musical based on a real #WWII British deception operation). I thought I'd probably enjoy it, but was woefully underprepared for what is genuinely a work of utter brilliance. 10/10, will go again.

https://www.operationmincemeat.com/

"The GOP and Americans more generally will need to take a much tougher stance against those threatening its democratic institutions. In January 1933, the largest democratic party in Germany, the SPD, failed to use its most powerful weapon against the Nazis—calling a general strike."

By Robert Gerwarth

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/06/weimars-lessons-for-bidens-america/

#Germany
#history
#WWII
#hitler
#nazis
#StateOfDemocracy

Today in #Connecticut History, September 4: A Fallen Marine, A World War, & A New Destroyer

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/09/04/september-4-a-fallen-marine-a-world-war-a-new-destroyer/

#20thcentury #connecticuthistory #everettlarson #guadalcanal #militaryhistory #navalhistory #september #unitedstatesnavy #usmarines #usnavy #usmc #usseverettflarson #waranddefense #wwii

“War Flashes”: snippets from the world press as it tries to discern what is unfolding in the fog of war September 3,1939.

From an American scrapbook album

#WorldWarII #WWII 3/n

On September 3, 1939, not only Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, but also King George V addressed the people

6 pm London Summer Time

“In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history…”

Clipping from the scrapbook of an anonymous American

The film, "The King's Speech," made the backstory famous.

Here is a recording of the actual speech:

https://youtu.be/anqVda6XveI?si=HfUMH07ckbcBEBDM

#WorldWarII #WWII 2/n

On another September 3, this time, 1939:

After Germany fails to respond to the British demand that it withdraw its troops from Poland, Britain declares war.

Here, a recording of the speech:

https://youtu.be/9ir7VOroG64?si=y6JviYdcVPpUb0XJ
The execrable Chamberlain preposterously & stubbornly insists:

"I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and that would have been more successful"

Transcript:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/gb3.asp

#WorldWarII #WWII 1/n