General Dwight Eisenhower, General George Patton and President Harry S. Truman

This US Navy photo was sent by a follower of this blog who has just visited the Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida.

"Swastika Nation: Rise and Fall of Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund"

Chicago writer Arne Bernstein discusses his latest work at the Niles Public Library on Wednesday, March 19, at 7pm as he describes how the Bund and its upstart leader aimed to
establish a fascist dictatorship in the Unites States in the late 1930s even developing their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth Corps. The Chicago Tribune judged Mr. Bernstein’s account as “impeccably researched and forcefully written.” Mr. Bernstein is also the author of Hollywood on Lake Michigan and Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. He is also a graduate of Clarence E. Culver School in Niles. 

Book Sentry, March 2014 issue

Spot the new arrivals on military history, especially those providing context for the library's ongoing Veterans History Project.

Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press By Hamill, Pete Author Associated Press Author Associated Press 2013-10 - ABRAMS 9781419708640 Check Our Catalog …More

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned By Townley, Alvin 2014-02 - St. Martin's Press 9781250006530 Check Our Catalog The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. …More

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War I By Jaffe, Eric 2014-01 - Scribner Book Company 1451612052 Check Our Catalog

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War By Kinzer, Stephen 2013-10 - Times Books 0805094970 Check Our Catalog A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak. …More

The Russian Origins of the First World War By McMeekin, Sean 2011-11 - Belknap Press 0674062108 Check Our Catalog In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. …More

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America By Jacobsen, Annie 2014-02 - Little Brown and Company 031622104X Check Our Catalog The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Area 51" …More