Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris, premiering on March 31,2017: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood’s most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever. This documentary was produced by Scott Rudin and Steven Spielberg, and includes extensive interviews […]
The Tunnels is a thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration’s unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. Based on extensive access to the Stasi archives, long-secret U.S. documents, and new interviews with tunnelers and […]
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One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-Boat assault off the American coast against the Merchant Marines who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort. Mathews County, Virginia, is a bleak strip of land along the Chesapeake with almost nothing to offer–but it sent […]
In honor of veteran and hero Ed Shames, one of the last surviving paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division, I’d like to share this book coming in October from Osprey Publishing and to thank him for his service to freedom. This book is the final book in a gripping trilogy which includes Tonight We Die as […]
Jamie’s Top-10 Most Memorable Library Moments Finally, a group of readers (Librarians!) that won’t snicker, chuckle, or otherwise laugh out loud at what I’m about to tell you. Ready? Here goes: 1) I met my wife at that hotbed of swinging singles activity known as…the public library. Hey, no laughing! Bat Girl was a librarian––and […]
For your patrons who read the beloved bestseller, Flags of Our Fathers, here are two titles from Osprey Publishing with a more lighthearted approach to military history. Did you know that when soldier in WWII referred to a butcher shop, he was referring to the hospital? Or that if a soldier pointed out a Victory Girl to his friends, […]
