- (Asia Times) – Although it concluded more than 60 years ago, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial is still a live issue today – in Japan as in the world at large.
Month: May, 2009
- Footnote.com – – I’ve had a lot of trouble narrowing my searches in www.Footnote.com in past months, so I decided to try some alternate methods. I knew that Isaac Johnson of Chatham, Connecticut had a Revolutionary War Pension File, and I knew that his wife’s maiden name was Rebecca Cole. Here is the Footnote.com new home page – it has a search box at the top just waiting for a name to be put in: I resisted the urge to put the name in the box, since I knew that doing that would give me too many match
- (Washington Post) – A federal judge today ordered the release of detainee who has provided incriminating information against scores of other men confined at the U.S. military prison at U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- (Salem News) – LISBON – Only veterans and special groups will be allowed to completely view military discharge records on file at the Columbiana County Recorder’s Office because of a change in the law.
- – Michael B. Barrett. Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands. Twentieth-Century Battles Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9. Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Stanford University) Published on H-German (March, 2009) Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher A Forgotten Eastern Storm On October 12, 1917, an amphibious German invasion force of some 25,000 troops, 350 ships and bo