Last year I wrote a brief analysis of the First Battle of the Isonzo. Now nearing the ninety-fifth anniversary of the first Isonzo battle I thought it might be somehow fitting to highlight the connections between this engagement and the Second World War. Recently I read a post over at The Spitfire Site, where an ongoing post-blogging project on the Battle of Britain addressed Italy’s entrance into the war. The similarities between the Italian assaults against Austrian-Hungarian positions during the First World War and the invasion of France in the Second World War are striking.
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Today I have spent some time updating the look of this site. As always, I am trying to improve the readabilty of my posts through improvements in typography. Readers will notice the replacement of darker colors with more grays, easier to read font, and larger heading sizes. In terms of usability, site visitors can now leave comments simply by signing in with their Twitter account. Feel free to voice your opinions regarding the site changes.
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces began the liberation of Western Europe with the landings along the Normandy coastline. Last year I complained about how television (cough, History Channel, cough) barely noted the 65th Anniversary of the Normandy landings. This year, however, I have decided to allow history to literally speak for itself.
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Not wasting any time, I obtained two additional books on Australia’s Vietnam War experience. The books listed below should go along nicely with the other books I recently discussed.
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After debating on whether to comment on the History Channel’s new show, America The Story of Us, I must state that I cannot take any show seriously that has Puff Daddy (or whatever pseudonym he is currently using) explaining the Erie Canal and Irish-American labor. Furthermore, skipping the wars between the American Revolution and the Second World War makes me wonder what this television series is really about. Clearly if it was an worthwhile account of American history it would not be aired on the History Channel.
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