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Cover for The Last Man Home by Susan Preiss Martin

The Last Man Home by Susan Preiss Martin

April 8, 2013

Susan Preiss Martin's The Last Man Home  (CreateSpace, 94 pp., $11.95, paper)  deals with the mysteries surrounding the death of a Special Forces soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert F. Preiss, Jr. The author is SSGT Preiss’s…

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Zumwalt by Larry Berman

March 19, 2013

Admiral Elmo R. "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr., is one of the transcending figures of the Vietnam War. An Annapolis graduate and a veteran of the fighting in the Pacific in World War II, he served as…

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Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories by John A. Miller

March 18, 2013

John A. Miller's Jackson Street and Other Soldier Stories , first published in 1996, is now available for the first time as an e-book (Amazon.com, $2.99). There are eleven stories in this 167-page book, and…

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Divine Fate by Audrey M. Insoft

February 27, 2013

Audrey M. Insoft lives with her husband and son in Westchester County, New York.  There’s no information in her book,   Divine Fate (Dog Ear, 304 pp., $19.95, paper), on her military experience, but she…

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Goodbye Emily by Michael Murphy

February 9, 2013

The garish, tie-dyed cover of Goodbye Emily by Michael Murphy (Koehler, 270 pp., $16.95, paper) fairly shouts that the book is about the psychedelic sixties.That is a form of truth in packaging as the focus of the…

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A Hellish Place of Angels by Daryl J. Eigen

November 26, 2012

The subtitle of Daryl J. Egen's A Hellish Place of Angels (iUniverse, 222 pp., $18.95, paper) is “Con Thien: One Man’s Journey, ” which gives a better sense of what the book is about than…

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Rob McGowan, 1947-2012

November 20, 2012

Robert McGowan, an artist and writer who served with the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968-69, died November 15 after a long battle with Agent Orange-caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 65 years old. McGowan,…

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How to Not Tell a War Story by Michael Lund

November 8, 2012

Michael Lund published parts of How to Not Tell a War Story (BeachHouse Books, 300 pp., $16.95, paper; Milspeak Books, $4.99, e book) in an august literary journal, War, Literature and the Arts: An International…

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The History of Bearing Children by Jacqueline Murray Loring

October 18, 2012

Jacqueline Murray Loring (above ) is the editor of two important anthologies, Summer Home Review: A Community of Words: A Circle of Poets, An Anthology of Selected Poems and Stories (2002), and Summer Home Review,…

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An Honorable Illusion by Kurt Chismark

October 17, 2012

Kurt Chismark graduated from Cornell University, enlisted in the Army in 1968, went to OCS, then served with the 6th Special Forces Group (Airborne), and as a rifle platoon leader in Vietnam with the 173rd…

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