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Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab) @martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social · Nov 6
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Winston Churchill
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Hold da helt ferie - the mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #GreenlandHistory #DanishHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #BritishImperialHistory #AlliedHistory #AmericanHistory #WeatherStations #HistBookChat
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Just finished my 76th Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #ImperialJapaneseHistory #AmericanHistory #AlliedHistory #PacificWar #AirWar #BombingCampaign #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Tokyo 1944–45 (Osprey Air Campaign #40)
4/5: As the Pacific War dragged on, the Allies were not totally sure how to kill Japan's particular brand of Fascism. What they did know was that Tokyo was the geographically the head of the snake. Ja...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Posta - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #BritishImperialHistory #BritishHistory #ArgentinianHistory #ColdWar #Falklands #SouthAtlanticWar #LasMalvinas #Junta #RoyalNavy #HistBookChat
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Trip to Denver for Supplies - there was a #ThriftScore!! @arcthrift #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #Luftwaffe #Transport #Bomber #SCW #FallOfFrance #Barbarossa #Crete #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #HistBookChat
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Trip to Denver for supplies - there was a #ThriftScore @arcthrift #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #AlliedHistory #AmericanHistory #BattleOfTheBulge #USArmy #Wehrmacht #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #WWII #SWW @raiderlee.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Just finished my 75th Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #AlliedHistory #JapaneseHistory #USAAF #BombingCampaign #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of B-29 Superfortress vs Japanese Nightfighter (Duel Book 144)
4/5: The Japanese thought they were ready for whatever the Americans could do against the home islands but most of their preparations were inadequate. Japanese cities did not have fire departments, an...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Mehercle - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #1stCenturyBC #MilitaryHistory #RepublicanRomanHistory #RomanHistory #RomanCivilWar #JuliusCaesar #GnaeusPompeiusMagnus #Legions #MediterraneanHistory #Hispania #Greece #Egypt #HistBookChat
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Khong ngo - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #VietnameseHistory #TankHistory #ArmouredWarfare #VietnamWar #SovietHistory #CommunistChineseHistory #AmericanHistory #ColdWar #SouthVietnam #HistBookChat
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Namangha - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #PhilippinesHistory #PacificWar #AmericanHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #Occupation #Resistance #Liberation #PinoyHistory #Atrocities #IslandHopping #HistBookChat
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Obaldet - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #21stCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #UkrainianHistory #RussianHistory #UkraineWar #ModernHistory #BelarussianHistory #RussianImperialHistory #PostSovietHistory #TankHistory #DroneWarfare #HistBookChat
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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On the list... #OnTheList
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Trip to Denver for Supplies - there was a #ThriftScore!! @redwhiteandbluethrift #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #SovietHistory #RussianHistory #BelarussianHistory #UkrainianHistory #ColdWar #TankHistory #ArmouredWarfare #WarsawPact #RedArmy #HistBookChat
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Trip to Denver for Supplies - there was a #ThriftScore!! @arcthrift #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #Luftwaffe #SingleEngineFighter #Interceptor #SCW #FallOfFrance #Barbarossa #DefenseOfTheReich #HistBookChat
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Just finished my 74th Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #PacificWar #JapaneseHistory #EndGame #USAAC #SiegeOfJapan #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Black Snow
5/5: I absolutely loved this book, but perhaps the fact that I read it on a "Fall of Japan" tour led by the author where we traveled extensively and saw all the key sites and artifacts had something t...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Black Snow
5/5: I absolutely loved this book, but perhaps the fact that I read it on a "Fall of Japan" tour led by the author where we traveled extensively and saw all the key sites and artifacts had something t...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Golly jee whillickers - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AmericanHistory #IntelligenceHistory #SpecialForcesHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #DanishHistory #OSS #SovietHistory #HistBookChat
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Just finished my 73rd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #BritishImperialHistory #RajHistory #SouthAsianHistory #IndianHistory #PakistaniHistory #BangladeshiHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Slim (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. War leader book)
4/5: My father always felt that Slim was the greatest of all the Allied Generals, save perhaps the genius Eisenhower had for coalition warfare. As my father was a polymath university professor and I a...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Accipicchia - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NavGeek #NavalHistory #BritishImperialHistory #MalteseHistory #FascistiHistory #ItalianHistory #RoyalNavy #RegiaAeronautica #RegiaMarina #HistBookChat
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Dagnabbit - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AmericanHistory #JapaneseImperialHistory #PacificWar #USMC #IslandHopping #AmphibiousWarfare #LandingForce #AirborneWarfare #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #HistBookChat
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Trip to Denver for a CMH meeting and supplies - one of the lads found a cache of Ballantine's!! #GarageSaleScore #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #AlliedHistory #AirborneOperations #BritishImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #HistBookChat
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Trip to Denver for Supplies - there was a #ThriftScore!! @redwhiteandbluethrift #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #Wehrmacht #Panzerwaffe #TankHistory #HeavyTanks #ArmouredWarfare #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #WWII #SWW #HistBookChat
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Just finished my 72nd Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #YugoslavianHistory #CroatianHistory #Ustase #AntePavelic #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #FascistiHistory #ItalianHistory #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Hitler’s Croatian Ally
4/5: The 1940s were a time of difficult choices for many nationalist movements. Should they join the Axis or the Allies was a very real riddle to solve at one's peril. The Croatian centrist anti commu...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Just finished my 71st Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #Normandy #FrenchHistoire #AlliedHistory #BritishImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #CanadianHistory #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #DDay #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Breakout Drive to the Seine (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign book No. 4)
4/5: The Allies had successfully come ashore in Normandy- only to seem to get trapped in attritional warfare. The British had the bulk of German Armour arrayed against them in the East, the Americans ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Just finished my 70th(!!) Book Review of the Year!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #KuwaitiHistory #IraqiHistory #GulfWarII #NATO #WarsawPact #AmericanHistory #BritishHistory #PostColdWarHistory #ColdWar #HistBookChat
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Martin Koenigsberg's review of Tanks in the Gulf War 1991 (New Vanguard #337)
4/5: I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Cold War was pretty intense, and the Warsaw Pact quantity versus NATO quality trope was a pillar of Western belief. Then the second Gulf War came along-...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Wirklich - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #FrenchHistoire #NaziHistory #GermanHistory #AlliedHistory #WesternFront #BritishImperialHistory #AmericanHistory #TankWarfare #TankDestroyers #HistBookChat
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM