Home
HOME — MORE THAN A HOUSE OR THE PLACE YOU COME FROM “Home” is rather like a jigsaw puzzle (another of my favorite pastimes). It is a short novel, not 150 pages and when first read it seems very straightforward. Frank Money returns stateside from the war in Korea. He enlisted in the army to […]
The General vs. The President
THE GENERAL vs. THE PRESIDENT: MACARTHUR AND TRUMAN AT THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR “I should have fired him [General MacArthur] six months sooner.” If Truman had done so, the history of both the Korean War and the last two years of Truman’s presidency might well have been different. But he didn’t, and no amount […]
Wartime Devotion – Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice If you are thrilled by the fantasy of hurtling through the air at four hundred miles per hour pulled by a hugely powerful propeller driven engine, you will probably enjoy this book since Makos’s descriptions of aerial artistry often reach 5 G’s. Alternatively, if you are […]
Sgt. Reckless
Sgt. Reckless, America’s War Horse I came across “Sgt. Reckless, America’s War Horse” at a trade show last October. I hadn’t read a horse story since “Seabiscuit” and I am a sucker for any story about almost any horse, but “America’s War Horse?” Which war? Oh, Korean. I grew up in the fifties; why had […]