by Dale Jenkins | Aug 11, 2026 | Book Reviews
Robert C. Stern, Super Destroyers, Seaforth Publishing (Imprint of Pen & Sword Books., Ltd.), 255 pages, 2024. Mr. Stern, a resident of Alameda, CA, has written nine books , mostly of a maritime theme. A previous book, Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close...
by Dale Jenkins | Mar 10, 2026 | Book Reviews
William L. Ramsay – Wake Island Wildcat – A Marine Fighter Pilot’s Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II, Stackpole Books, 2024. Book Review by Dale A. Jenkins William L. Ramsey is a professor of history at Lander University, and previously...
by Dale Jenkins | Feb 1, 2026 | Published Articles
In 1804, in a pompous ceremony in Notre Dame cathedral, Napoleon placed the royal crown of France on his own head and proclaimed himself Emperor of France. The ceremony took place with Pope Pius VII in attendance to conduct the coronation, but to show that he was the...
by Dale Jenkins | Oct 28, 2025 | Book Reviews
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 W.W. Norton & Company, 597 pages, 2012. This is the first of a trilogy intended by Mr. Toll as a comprehensive study of the Pacific War. It begins with a vivid account of the Pearl harbor attack of December 7,...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 18, 2025 | Book Reviews
Martin Dugard, Taking Midway, Dutton (Penguin Random House), 358 pages, 2025. The latest in a series of books, Taking Midway follows Taking Berlin and Taking Paris with an engaging series of vignettes, anecdotes and narratives leading to the June 4, 1942 Midway battle...
