September 25, 2015
Pierre Gerard's Le Havre: A Riveting Expose For Our World Today: The French Resistance in World War II: A Historical War Romance Novel (Merriam Press, 286 pp., $18.95) has been published posthumously. A Vietnam veteran, Pierre Gerard served…
September 18, 2015
Former UCLA and Stanford University psychiatry professor Stephen Stahl is an expert on PTSD. The hero of his novel, Shell Shock (Harley House Press, 448 pp., $17.95, paper; $5.99, Kindle), Dr. Gus Conrad, discover a covert…
May 19, 2015
Jean Larteguy (the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, 1920-2011) spent time in prison in Spain in 1942, the year I was born. He then joined the Free French Forces and served seven years…
March 4, 2015
Paul Brite---the hero of Larry Matthews's novel Take a Rifle from a Dead Man (Argus Enterprises International, 264 pp., $17.99, paper)---survives the Depression as a cowboy, brothel bouncer, and railroad hobo and then, on March…
June 12, 2014
The cover of Patrick Lee's Kickers: A Novel of the Secret War (CreateSpace, 380 pp., $13.95, paper) depicts an airdrop In Laos. It shows a package, probably rice, dropping after having been booted out of a…