Books in Review

New in paperback: ‘Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot’

March 13, 2023

Jeffrey Matthews’ Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot, first published in 2020, is now available in paperback (University of Notre Dame Press, 416 pp., $29). As Dan Hart wrote in his Books in Review II review the book…

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Operation Babylift 47th Anniversary Tribute

April 14, 2022

On Sunday, April 24, at 6:00 p.m. the Pan Am Museum Foundation and Holt International, the international child adoption agency, will host a 47th Anniversary Tribute to Operation Babylift, the April 1975 evacuation of war-orphaned…

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Larry Heinemann, 1944-2019

December 14, 2019

Larry Heinemann---the award-winning novelist much of whose work reflected his experiences as a working-class kid from Chicago who was drafted into the Army and served a 1967-68 Vietnam War tour of duty with the 25th…

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Chapter 944 Honors Gold Star Mothers

October 20, 2019

The Vietnam Veterans of America Utica Chapter 944 hosted a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of National Gold Star Mothers’ Day on Sept. 29 at the Gold Star Mothers’ Monument in Utica, N.Y. The short ceremony featured the…

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‘Bosch’ Season Five is Streaming

April 24, 2019

The fifth season of the detective/thriller series Bosch started streaming on Amazon Prime Video last week.  Bosch is based on the twenty-one best-selling and brilliant Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly, starting with The Black Echo…

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Here’s another way to determine eligibility for VA disability benefits

May 18, 2018

The National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP and on Facebook) is offering a free online app for veterans at http://app.nvlsp.org. It is designed to help veterans and their advocates identify the VA disability benefits to…

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Author Query: Divine Intervention in the War Zone

March 6, 2017

For a book he is preparing, Mike Burns, the author of A Battalion of Angels, and a Vietnam War veteran, would like to hear from folks who, in his words, "experienced some form of Divine…

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Free Digital Novel to Vietnam Veterans

November 30, 2016

Bill Yancey is offering free digital copies of his new novel, Abandoned: MIA in Vietnam , to all Vietnam War veterans. Just send an email to wbyauthor@bellsouth.net , identify yourself as a Vietnam veteran, and specify…

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Pat Duncan’s New Book: Gothic Horror in World War II

November 16, 2016

Patrick Sheane Duncan knows war and he knows how to create riveting fiction. Duncan---a Vietnam War veteran screenwriter, director, and novelist (Mr. Holland’s Opus, Courage Under Fire, 84 Charlie MoPic, Vietnam War Stories, Nick o…

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Thom Jones, 1945-2016

October 19, 2016

Thom Jones, a former Marine who gained literary fame in the 1990s for his hard-hitting fiction writing, died October 14 at age 71 . Jones joined the Marine Corps as a teenager during the Vietnam…

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