The Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg welcomed historian Cooper Wingert, author of “The Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania,” to its recent gathering on the evening of Thursday, May
A review of The Retribution Conspiracy: The Rise of the Confederate Secret Service (Scuppernong Press, 2021) by Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. In a world full of ever arising new conspiracy theories, one over 150 years old still intrigues us. Did the South conspire to kill Lincoln? Noted scholar and historian, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr’s, novel The Retribution Conspiracy adds his historical research and skill as a novelist to the question and answers with a resounding, “Yes!” The Retribution Conspiracy follows the life of the protagonist, Rance Liebert, as a young man growing-up in a South that was at that time a frontier culture. It … Continue reading →
Start the New Year With Five Contemporary Military Reads
December 30, 2020
By Col. William D. Bushnell, USMC (Ret)
From World War II and Korean War history to a look at military medicine throughout the centuries, here are the latest recommendations for MOAA’s Military Professional Reading List.
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Until historian Mitcham came along, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s premier biographer was Brigadier Desmond Young with his 1950 book, Rommel: The Desert Fox. Now, however, Mitcham’s biography of Rommel (1891-1944) eclipses Young’s by a refreshingly wide margin.