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Member Books
FICTION
The Treasure of Tampa Bay. By Col. Joe Reich, USAF-Ret.
This is the first in a series of young adult novels dealing with
U.S. history. It is an easy to comprehend overview of 500 years of
Tampa Bay history using a James Michener-style approach of taking
real events an combining them together with a fictional storyline.
Here, a fictional family forms a bay dynasty and witnesses the
historical developments and eventual growth of Tampa Bay.
PublishAmerica, P.O. Box 151, Frederick, MD 21705. (301) 695-1707.
www.publishamerica.com.
ISBN 1-4137-8305-8. 207 pp. $19.95 plus postage.
Called To Honor. By Lt. Col Wallace H. Little, USAF-Ret.
This historical novel, written by a member of the “Flying Tiger
Sharks,” deals with the interwoven lives of four men as they enter
Army life, face combat, and fight side-by-side in China during World
War II. The combat stories portrayed are authentic events that
occurred in different 14th AF units in China.
Dockside Publications Inc., 3565 Chastain Way, Pensacola, FL 35504.
(850) 438-6417. www.acalltohonor.com. ISBN 0-9742998-6-3. 400 pp.
$25.00 postpaid.
NON-FICTION
The Last Good War.
By Lt. Cmdr. Archie L. McPherran, USNR.
America resisted becoming involved in the war in Europe for two
years, but, once attacked by Japan, it marshaled all its personnel
and material resources to defeat its enemies. All men and women were
involved, either by volunteering for the military, being drafted, or
by working in factories an shipyards, piloting planes form factories
to airfields, serving as hostesses at canteens, participating in
scrap metal drives, saving cooking fat, growing victory vegetable
gardens, or cooperating in the rationing of coffee, meat, sugar,
shoes, gasoline, and tires. The relatively good war still caused
loss of lives and changed the social fabric due to increased travel,
interstate and international marriages, and change in area of
residence.
AuthorHouse, 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403.
(888) 519-5121.
www.authorhouse.com. ISBN 1-4184-8862-3. 223 pp. $15.00
postpaid.
War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler.
By Col. Oliver North, USMC-Ret., with Joe Musser.
It was the greatest generation’s greatest moment: Under the
leadership of Generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and
Bradley, heroes at home and abroad united in common purpose as
soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines rescued Europe form the
tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler. Sixty yeas later, as America
is once again engaged in an armed struggle against a deadly foe,
Marine combat veteran Oliver North tells the true stories of the
brave men who paved the way for freedom.
Regnery Publishing Inc., One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20001. (202) 216-0612.
www.regnery.com. ISBN 0-89526-014-X. 342 pp. $29.95 plus
postage.
Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent.
By Lt. Col. H. John Poole, USMC-Ret.
This book gauges America’s progress in Iraq and Afghanistan from a
unique perspective – that of East-Asian battlefield trickery. As
both countries were part of the Mongol Empire for over 200 years,
they are a breading ground for every sort of ancient Chinese ruse –
any one of the famous “36 Stratagems.” In combination, those
stratagems have the power to make a losing adversary think he is
winning. They have done so to America before.
Posterity Press, P.O. Press 5360, Emerald Isle, NC 28594.(252)
354-5493.
www.posteritypress.org. ISBN 0-9638695-8-2. 412 pp. $19.95
postpaid.
The Giant Book of Animal Jokes: Beastly Humor for Gownups.
By Lt. Cmdr. James D. Ertner, USN-Ret., and Richard Lederer.
This book offers 4,509 numbered jokes and scores of unnumbered
twists and puns. You’ll find the kind that made you giggle in
grammar school; the kind that made you hysterical in high school
history, literature, and science; the kind that turns grownups into
groan-ups with bar scenes, the battle of the sexes, married life,
raising children, and politics.
Stone and Scott Publishers, P.O. Box 56419, Sherman Oaks, CA
91413-1419. (818) 904-9088.
www.stoneandscott.com. ISBN 1-891135-08-02.448 pp. $19.95 plus
postage.
Your Neighbor Went to War: Reality and the War on Terror By Maj. B. Diggs Bown Jr., USA.
A Green Beret in the Colorado National Guard, Diggs takes us through
his remarkable seven-month tour in war-torn Afghanistan – facing
challenges in the oppressive atmosphere of terrorism, winning the
hearts and minds of the impoverished people in an Afghan village,
organizing American school children to help rebuild a bombed-out
school, and more.
Clifton House U.S.A., 903 Rule Drive, Suite 709, Layfayette, CO
80026-0709. (970) 420-9097.
www.diggs.us. ISBN 0-9754158-0-8. 204 pp. $14.95 plus postage.
The Quote Manual: Wisdom and Wit of
the Ages. By Col. Robert G.
Moscatelli, USA-Ret
This book is an unpadded 50-year collection of carefully selected
quotes, each of which is guaranteed to cause the reader to think,
learn, grow, and in some cases, laugh. Open this book to any page
and you’ll find gems of the spoken and written word that you will
use again and again in your speaking, writing and living. This book
is an ideal gift for readers of all ages — informative, educational,
and immensely entertaining.
AuthorHouse, 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403.
(800) 839-8640.
www.authorhouse.com. ISBN 1-4208-5331-7. 150 pp. $16.95 plus
postage
The Imperfect Spy: The Inside Story of a Convicted Spy.
By Lt. Col. Andy J. Byers, USA-Ret.
This book is the inside story of George Trofimoff, an American civil
servant and U.S. Army reserve colonel, convicted in 2001 of spying
for the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. It is a story of
betrayal, greed, and treachery at an almost incomprehensible level.
It begins with Trofimoff’s early years as a Russian refuge living in
pre-World War II Germany and continues through the remarkable series
of coincidences that converged to give him a new life and made him
an American citizen. It follows Trofimoff’s life as he advanced in
the American intelligence community through positions of increasing
responsibility, and his unlikely recruitment by a Russian Orthodox
priest — his own step-brother – as a spy for the Soviet Union. It
ends with his arrest, trial, and conviction for espionage.
Vandamere Press, PO Box 149, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. (727)
556-0950. www.vandamere.com.
ISBN 0-918339-66-9. 272 pp. $24.95 plus postage.
MEMOIRS
Submarine Captain and Command at Sea.
By Capt. Herbert I. Mandel, USN-Ret.
This story is typical of a Naval Academy graduate of June 1938.
Prewar service in aircraft carriers Lexington and Wasp is followed
by volunteer service in submarines as war tensions build.
Collage Books Inc., 4244 Corporate Square, Naples, FL 34104. (800)
565-0922. ISBN 978-0-938728-16-0. 256 pp. $17.95 plus postage.
AJO 2: From Sharecropper’s Son to MIG Killer; From Two Miles Per
Hour to Mach 2. By Lt.
Col. Jim Ellis, USAF-Ret.
In this semi-autobiographical account of a USAF fighter pilot,
8-year-old Hubert watches his dirt-poor sharecropper parents pick
cotton in Depression-era western Alabama. To escape the cotton
fields, he joins the U.S. Air Force in 1950 and is accepted to
flight-training school even though he has only a high-school
education. In the Korean Conflict, he shoots down his first MIG. His
combat tour in Southeast Asia results in two more MIG kills, but he
is shot down over North Vietnam on his 68th mission and spends seven
years as a “guest” of the North Vietnamese at the notorious “Hanoi
Hilton.” Repatriated in 1972, he retires from the Air Force in 1976
as a full colonel, and 20 years later, the sharecroppers’ son turns
millionaire. This is the author’s story, mixed with a bit of
fiction, with all its twists and turns. But the final twist is the
best - living to tell about it!
Rose Dog Books, 701 Smithfield Street, third Floor, Pittsburgh, PA
15222. (800) 834-1803.
www.rosedogbookstore.com. ISBN 0-8059-9783-0. 224 pp. $21.00
plus postage.
Signal Charley — Flaps, Wheels, Hook
Down. By Cmdr. Harry D.
Hamilton, USN-Ret.
Signal Charley will captivate flight-fanciers, adventure readers,
and U.S. Navy buffs alike. Ride along with the author through
midshipman cruises, pilot training, day and night aircraft carrier
qualifications, the transition from straight-deck to angled-deck
carriers, operations in the Pacific, squadron operations, and
in-flight emergencies. Experience first-hand accounts of Super
Typhoon Karen on Guam (1962), temporary additional duties in Moscow
(1967), and landing on an oceanic ice floe north of Alaska. Share
the author’s experiences as a pilot and meteorologist during the
evolutionary change from manual to numerical analysis and
forecasting, and the initial introduction of satellite (TIROS) data
to improve both methods. Savor, from start to finish, thoroughly
researched details, accompanying period photographs, meticulous
accuracy, and the author’s insightful and engaging perspective.
Lulu.com. 3131 RDU Center Dr., Suite 210, Morrisville, NC 27560.
www.lulu.com. ISBN 1-4116-5508-7.
228 pp. $13.95 plus postage.
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