Book Review
Seven War Stories
“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots,” quips retired Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Donald J. Meek in his autobiography, “but there are few old, bold pilots.” Lieutenant Colonel Meek is one of those few. This is...
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The First Americans Were Africans
It would be so easy to dismiss or to make light of Dr. David Imhotep’s work detailing what he claims is the African exploration and colonization of the Americas before Columbus — or as he states, before anyone else. To do so,...
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Targon
At first glance, Targon: The 6th Realm appears to be your standard science fiction world-is-about-to-end/exodus type of story. It may be that, but it is also much more. The first hint comes on page 134, when we unexpectedly encounter...
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Lou Baga
It is hard to imagine anyone, especially anyone who was a teenage boy in the early 1980s, reading this book without a smile on their face, at least for the first seventy or so pages. The opening chapters are delightful and entertaining...
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Palestine
"Palestine" is a tense, exciting, and timely political thriller that is as entertaining as it is engrossing. Set in the present it presupposes a conspiracy fostered by Iran to use the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah resistance...
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Shadow Wind
The thiry-one page introduction to "Shadow Wind" is so good that it could—should—stand alone as a short story. A breathless, awe-inspiring read of epic proportions. If only Spielberg, Lucas, or Michael Bay would film it, Kenneth...
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In the Company of Heroes
It is impossible to read "In the Company of Heroes" without Dr. Zhivago coming to mind. As with the Boris Pasternak novel or the classic movie from the 1960s, Ted Hunt’s book is also quite a grand and sweeping tale of war, revolution,...
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My Comrades and Me
“In combat you do not live and learn,” quips World War II veteran Al Brown, “you learn and live.” Fortunately for the then-20-year-old Floridian, in 1944 Brown learned and learned quickly. Many of the soldiers he met and wrote...