War Book Club Minutes: February 4th, 2020

Items discussed (* indicates available thru RPL)

*A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812/John Norton:

https://tinyurl.com/sl65qk4

*The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant/Ulysses Simpson Grant:

https://tinyurl.com/vssv8c4

*Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the struggle for supremacy/Dilip Hiro:

https://tinyurl.com/v73jqpv

*Currahee!/Donald Robert Burgett:

https://tinyurl.com/uucqjwp

*The Hidden Nazi: the untold story of America’s deal with the devil/Dean Reuter:

https://tinyurl.com/wafcwds

*Hitler’s Eagles: the Luftwaffe, 1933-45/Chris McNab:

https://tinyurl.com/tktuk77

*The Imperial Japanese Army: the invincible years, 1941-42/Bill Yenne:

https://tinyurl.com/t9gn9tr

*Mackenzie King in the age of the dictators: Canada’s Imperial and foreign policies/Roy MacLaren:

https://tinyurl.com/s347gkw

*Monte Cassino: ten armies in hell/Peter Caddick-Adams:

https://tinyurl.com/wrjlod6

*Mussolini’s Italy: life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945/R.J.B. Bosworth:

https://tinyurl.com/u99zkdb

*The Regiment/Farley Mowat:

https://tinyurl.com/sk52dgq

*The River Battles: Canada’s final campaign in World War II Italy/Mark Zuehike:

https://tinyurl.com/w3rnl5v

This Month’s Military Youtube selection is a bit different.

As a Youtube “Horror” creator, one of my mentors has been Mort, who runs the “Mortis Media” channel out of London, UK. His channel is different than mine, in that he tells supposedly true occult/horror stories posted on Reddit; recently, he did an episode dedicated to Military horror stories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpv9MpYTFw

Mainly U.S.; some of the yarns are quite interesting…check them out, if you dare.

Next meeting, Tuesday, March 3^rd at 7 pm, same room – I think.

See you then, Warren

Saskatchewan Aviation History Presentation, February 20th

The next meeting of the Regina Chapter of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) will be on the evening of Thursday, February 20, when Joel From will present the fruits of his many years of research into the wartime 33 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Caronport, just west of Moose Jaw.

It's a fascinating tale including superfast construction, a cadre of British airmen who played cricket and stabled horses (but failed at hockey), a superstar EFTS civilian manager and infrastructure so sturdy parts still are in use. And, oh, yes, a bar called "Smokey Joe's".

Presentation at 7:30 p.m., supper with our speaker at 6 p.m. The Eagles Club is at 1600 Halifax St., just south of the Casino Regina parking structure. For more information, email us at cahsregina@hotmail.com. Every aviation and milhist buff is welcome!

In Plain Site -- 33 EFTS Caron History book cover

War Book Club Minutes: January 7th, 2020

War Book Club: January 7^th, 2020

Items discussed; * indicates available thru RPL

*A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich/Christopher B. Krebs:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/806592

*Battle at Bull Run: a history of the first major campaign of the Civil War/William C. Davis:

https://tinyurl.com/u2wpju4

*Battlefield Detectives: unearthing new evidence on the world’s most famous battlefields/David Wason:

https://tinyurl.com/voaym5h

*The Battle of Arnhem: the deadliest airborne operation of World War II/Antony Beevor:

https://tinyurl.com/wrzz4ya

*The Battle of the Bulge: a graphic history of Allied victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945/Wayne Vansant:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/1044950

*The Book of War Letters: 100 years of private Canadian correspondence:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/108418

*Canadians behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945/Roy MacLaren:

https://tinyurl.com/wo29umn

*The Canadian General Sir William Otter/Desmond Morris:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/7389

Death of the Leaping Horseman: the 24^th Panzer division in Stalingrad/Jason D Mark:

https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Leaping-Horseman-Division-Stalingrad/dp/0811714047

*Doreen Warriner’s War:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2757442

*The Iran-Iraq War/Pierre Razoux:

https://tinyurl.com/u9nqhy4

*Operation Barbarossa: the German invasion of Soviet Russia/Robeert Kirchubel:

https://tinyurl.com/ul9t4e3

*Operation Medusa: the furious battle that saved Afghanistan from the Taliban/Major-General David Fraser:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2473846

*Ortona: Canada’s epic World War II battle/Mark Zuehike:

https://tinyurl.com/wpgd42z

*Rush to Danger: medics in the line of fire/Theodore Barris:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2795644

*Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s battle for Normandy and the rise of the Black Watch snipers/David R. O’Keefe:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2817819

*Snow & Steel: Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45/Peter Caddick-Adams:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/1011430

The Things Our Father’s Saw Book Series/Matthew Rozell:

https://tinyurl.com/ub3vncx

*Torpedoed: the true story of the World War II sinking of “The Children’s Ship”/Deborah Helligman:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/2815122

Special Feature:

Since I spend so much of my time on Youtube, I’ve decided to feature each month in 2020 a Youtube channel focussing on Military History.

This month is the World War Two channel hosted by Indy Neidell and produced by Spartacus Ollson and Astrid Dienhard.

It is covering World War Two in real time and has a host of related channels.

Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ/featured

Next meeting Tuesday, February 4^th at 7 pm – same room as last time – I think.

See you then, Warren