by Norman West | Jun 28, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, War & Military
The South does rise again. With pretty much the same result, but the author has imagined a world quite different from the one we know, as a backdrop for this tale of desperate circumstance and savage people. The war is precipitated by the Sustainable Future Act that...
by Norman West | Apr 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, War & Military
Most of us don’t remember the Spanish-American war. More of us remember Korea, more yet Vietnam, and who could forget Iraq? All different, yet similar in one respect. They were all unnecessary. None of them advanced America’s critical interests, none of them made...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Mar 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, War & Military
In May 1941, the lovely English countryside felt the real horror of WWII upon them. A German soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death and lands in Farleigh Field, ancestral home to Roderick Sutton, Earl of Westerham. Identified as a spy, this sets off a...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 13, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
There are those of us old enough to remember The Swamp Fox, an 8 episode television series presented by Walt Disney about the courageous soldier and leader in America’s Revolutionary War, Francis Marion. This book, by John Oller, takes the romantic embellished...
by Howard Leighton | Dec 23, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Social Science, War & Military
A segregated infantry unit of Japanese-Americans in October of 1944 was sent to rescue another unit of American soldiers trapped in the mountains of eastern France. That unit was the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Although this combat action was only from October 24th...
by Sarah Hutchins | Dec 21, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Religion, War & Military
How many new memoirs or semi-autobiographical memoirs are left to add to the collective understanding of WWII and its atrocities? Shortly after Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, died in July 2016, Time Magazine reported that just 100,000 holocaust...