May 15, 2013
VVA member Brinn Colenda is a graduate of the U. S. Air Force Academy and a retired lieutenant colonel. He served in Southeast Asia and other places around the world in flying and staff positions.…
November 27, 2012
Nathan Maddox's The Right War (CreateSpace, 278 pp., $8.99, paper) is a first novel that deals with the events of September 11, 2001. Maddox served with the U. S. Army’s Americal Division in Vietnam from…
December 15, 2011
I have been a big, big fan of Michael Connelly’s best-selling Harry Bosch detective procedural novels since the first one, the Edgar-Award-winning The Black Echo , burst on the scene in 1992. Bosch is an…
November 9, 2011
Wesley Murphey, who served four years in the submarine service between 1974 and 1979, says he’s always had a fascination with the Vietnam War. Perhaps that is because he just missed taking part in it. His mystery/thriller,…
September 11, 2011
The author of The Black Heart (CreateSpace, 448 pp., $19.95, paper), T. Michael Fuson, was a Chief Warrant Officer in the U. S. Army and flew helicopter gunships during his 1969-70 tour based out of…