January 16, 2015
Edge of Civilization By Jennifer Ott, ND. When I started reading the unusual novel, Edge of Civilization (lulu.com, 184 pp., $20.50, paper), I assumed that the main character, Earl Hollsopple, was a Vietnam veteran. That because…
January 15, 2015
Harvey Baker's War Dog Six: Tales of the Spirit Warrior (Amazon Digital Services, 361 pp., $3.99, Kindle), we are told by the author, "is a fictional novel and is based on the historic war Americans…
January 7, 2015
I read W. Thomas Leonard's Napalm’s Embrace (BookBaby, 456 pp., $1.99, e book) on my Kindle. It is well worth reading, and it is very cheap. This is not the usual Marine Corps novel as it is…
January 5, 2015
Chris Evans is the author of the nonfiction book, Bloody Jungle: The War in Vietnam . He is a military historian and was born in Canada. Of Bone and Thunder (Gallery Books, 496 pp., $26.99,…
December 26, 2014
Bob Calverley was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967 and served for a year in the Vietnam War with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company in Tay Ninh. Calverley spent most of his tour…
December 23, 2014
Bob Flanagan served sixteen years in the Army Security Agency, which is the focus of his ASA Trilogy from Connemarra Press and AuthorHouse: Involuntary Tour (324 pp., $31.99, hardcover; $22.99, paper, 2009), Dragon Bait (336 pp.,…
December 10, 2014
Richard E. Baker served in the U. S. Army with the 4th Infantry Band. He did not spend his time in Vietnam marching on parade grounds playing his horn, though. He was in the field,…
December 9, 2014
James A. Hawkins served eleven years as a U. S. Marine, and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. His Marine Corps Vietnam War novel, A Common Virtue (Naval Institute Press, 240 pp., $29.95), takes…
December 1, 2014
We are told that Jim Miller's Never Left Behind (RichLife Publishing, 334 pp., $20.99, paper) is a work of fiction. “The characters are either vestiges of my memory or products of my imagination, " Miller…
November 24, 2014
Harry Simpson served in the military form 1964-1966, and “experienced the constant fear of becoming part of the Vietnam Conflict and having to choose between killing and being killed.” Did Simpson serve in Vietnam, and if…