Member Books

FICTION

Adak. By Lt. Col. Burke Toliver, USAR.
Former EOD officer Brick Revloc is a savvy, scrappy little guy with a penchant for getting into — and out of – tough situations around the world. From the Gulf War to a remote Aleutian island, he uses resourcefulness and his bomb disposal expertise to thwart Iraqi terrorists and North Korean special operations forces.
1st Books Library, 1669 Liberty Drive, Suite 200 Bloomington, IN 47403. (888) 519-5121. www.authorhouse.com. 274 pp. $14.50 plus postage.

Cubane. By Lt. Col. Burke Toliver, USAR.
The action continues in Toliver’s sequel to Adak when Brick Revloc’s team encounters members of the Irish Republican Army setting up a training camp on U.S. soil. Their goal is to target British businesses in America and stop the on-going peace accords. With the help of the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, they manufacture the world’s most powerful high explosive. With his friends held captive and a reign of terror about to begin, Revloc’s only chance to avert a bloodbath is to convince the FBI to act.
PublishAmerica, P.O. Box 151 Frederick, MD 21705. (301) 695-1707. www.publishamerica.com. ISBN 1-4137-3771-4.185 pp. $16.95 plus postage.

Lt. Williams on the Color Front. By Maj. Chris Bell, AUS-Ret.
This is a fast-paced, action, adventure story of a young, black lieutenant’s coming of age as he struggles to serve as a platoon leader in an all-white U.S. Army Infantry Regiment in Germany in 1950.
PublishAmerica, P.O. Box 151 Frederick, MD 21705. (301) 695-1707. www.publishamerica.com. ISBN 1-4137-6177-1. 194 pp. $19.95 plus postage.

The Four Little Children, A Likely Story. By Lt. Col. Larry Michalove, USAF-Ret.
During Michalove’s time serving in the Vietnam conflict he wrote almost daily letters to his wife and included a story that she could read to their four little children. His children were the central characters in these stories and he invented an elf-like character to take them on wonderful adventures. Fortunately his wife saved all the letters and after many years he has compiled them into a book so that others may enjoy them.
iUniverse 2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68512. (800) 288-4677. www.iuniverse.com. ISBN 0-595-34799-1.163 pp. $12.95 plus postage.

Grady’s Tour: Lieutenant John Grady’s Tour of Duty in Korean War. By John H. Gallagher.
Lt. John Grady serves in South Korea and in North Korea where he is trapped behind Chinese lines and fights to reach safety. He returns to Fort Monmouth where his general has an unreasonable safe-driving program. Senator Joe McCarthy alleges that Communist spies are in the engineering laboratories at Fort Monmouth. Grady becomes involved in both matters. He has a romance with a local girl. This historic novel is detailed and accurate concerning the strategic events of the Korean War, both on the battle field and on the home front.
Sovereign Terrace Books, 858 Sovereign Terrace, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464. (843) 884-3540. jhgal@earthlink.net. ISBN 0-9758992-1-X. 526 pp. $25.00 postpaid.

NON-FICTION

Why Your Gasoline Prices Are High. By Col. Seldon B. Graham Jr., USA-Ret.
This is a very readable account of the current oil situation in the United States. It also suggests a way in which you can help to lower gasoline prices.
iUniverse, 2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100, Lincoln, NE 68512. (800) 288-4677. www.iuniverse.com. ISBN 0-595-36940-5. 67 pp. $10.95 plus postage.

The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought. By Col. James D. Beason, USAF-Ret.
In The E-Bomb, Dr. Beason acquaints us with new generation weapons that emit light-wave energy. Perhaps more influential than the atomic bomb, the lasers and high-powered microwaves that make up these weapons had rather humble beginnings – the same spectrum of energy found in a TV remote or kitchen appliance. Now, with funding back in place and plans to deploy DE weapons to Iraq this year, we’ll soon see how they’ll forever change the way we fight our wars.
Da Capo Press, Eleven Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142. (617) 252-5200. www.dacapopress.com. ISBN 0-306-81402-1. 256 pp. $26.00 plus postage.
 

From Omaha Beach to Dawson’s Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. By Col. Cole C. Kingseed, USA-Ret.
An infantry company commander in the U.S. Army’s heralded 1st Infantry Division, Dawson led his men through some of the most brutal battles of World War II. From the invasion of North Africa in late 1942 through Sicily and the assault on Normandy to the push toward the German frontier late in 1944, Dawson’s length of service on the front lines was extraordinary and his heroism while holding off the Germans on a ridge near Aachen, Germany, is legendary. Based on Dawson’s own combat journal, this book focuses on leadership in combat during the greatest human drama of the 20th century.
Naval Institute Press, 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21402. (800) 233-8764. www.navalinstitute.org. ISBN 1-59114-4 320 pp. $29.95 plus postage.

MEMOIRS

Ruff’s War: A Navy Nurse. By Cmdr. Cheryl Lynn Ruff, USN-Ret., and Cmdr. K. Sue Roper, USN-Ret.
Twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy had made Cheryl Ruff an independent, resilient, strong woman and a master at providing patient care in naval hospitals around the world. But nothing had prepared her for what she experienced on the frontlines of the 2003 war in Iraq as a member of Bravo Surgical Company. Known as the “Devil Docs,” they followed directly behind the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force as they entered Iraq at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Right along with the Marines, Commander Ruff, the only female nurse anesthetist at the front, and the rest of her surgical team learned to endure the brutal conditions of the desert while regularly confronting questions of life and death. Working in temperatures well over 100 degrees in full MOPP gear, Ruff and her team set up mobile hospital tents in the sand wherever needed. As Black Hawk helicopters brought in steady streams of the wounded, Bravo staff found it impossible to maintain basic sterilization procedures, and cleanup often amounted to shoveling blood-soaked sand out of the tent. During surgery they frequently wore lighted helmets so they could continue operating when the generator failed and donned gas masks when warnings were issued. These horrific conditions, coupled with the gruesome images of shredded bodies and the cries of wounded children, became Ruff’s world. This is her story of the war, up close and personal. It is a story of sacrifice, survival, and courage, movingly written by women unconditionally dedicated to the life-saving mission of the United States Navy Nurse Corps
Naval Institute Press, 291 Woods Road, Annapolis, MD 21402. (800) 233-8764. www.usni.org. ISBN 1-59114-739-5. 240 pp. $25.95 plus postage.

Flashing Sabers: Memories of Vietnam 1967-1968. By Lt. Col. Bert Chole, USA-Ret.
This memoir details Chole’s first tour of duty in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. He recounts his experience as the Scout Platoon Leader in Bravo Troop of the First Squadron 9th Air Cavalry Squadron. This story reveals the type of combat air cavalry soldiers encountered on a daily basis during these early days of airmobile warfare.
Xlibris Corp., 436 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19101. (888) 795-4274. www.xlibris.com. ISBN 1-4134-7865-4. 295 pp. $18.69 plus postage.

Just Call Me Moose!: Growing Up Italian in America. By Lt. Col. Karl R. Bossi, USAF-Ret.
This gritty memoir chronicles Bossi’s vibrant life growing up Italian in a predominantly Irish and blue-collar neighborhood of Boston. The book has 17 vintage photos provides a visceral look at an important time in history. The book also explores Bossi’s lifelong confrontation with his father’s suicide which occurred just days before his senior prom. In deference to this, a portion of the book revenues will be given to the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention (www.afsp.org) in New York City.
Gondola Press, 1435 E. Venice Avenue, #109, Venice, FL 34292. www.gondolapress.com. ISBN 0-9759811-1-0. 246 pp. $14.95 plus postage.

Three Wars….One Marine. By Lt. Gen. Robert Prescott Keller, USMC-Ret.
Join Keller in his unique recollection from school in California, 1941, as a second lieutenant through an illustrious career concluding in the rank of lieutenant general, retired in 1972. Keller weaves a timeless true account of three wars ranging from squadron commander in the South Pacific against the Japanese, through the initial air offensive on North Korea, and on to Vietnam as a brigadier general for both the besieging of Khe San as well as the all out Tet offensive.
Trent’s Prints, Chumuckla, FL 32571-9465. (866) 275-7124. www.trentsprints.com. ISBN 0-9728872-5-3. 357 pp. $23.95 postpaid.

Q Clan: The First Summer of the Korean Conflict, June-September 1950, A Lieutenant’s Memoir. By Maj. Ralph Derr Harrity, USAR-Ret.
With very little warning, three American military divisions, a good portion of the long-term Occupation forces stationed in Japan at the outset of the summer of 1950, were suddenly rushed by plane and boat onto the southern peninsula of Korea. Their mission: to bolster the army of South Korea, which was struggling to thwart an invasion by the communist North. As a lieutenant artillery forward observer, Harrity rode, walked, and fought with the 24th Infantry Division from July 6 through September 29, 1950. His experiences and observations during those weeks, as written in Q Clan, provide an on-the-line familiarity rather than a command or staff approach. He also provides an overview of the background of the Korean War, including troop training, training facilities, and the general attitude of the men comprising these initial ground forces called to fight for a people they barely knew.
Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc., 701 Smithfield Street, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3906. (412) 288-4543. www.dorancepublishing.com. ISBN 0-8059-6748-6. 317 pp. $21.00 plus postage.