In October 2019, lifelong friends Ron Sorter and Bob Tierno authored a book that has its genesis over five decades ago. Their memoir, Letters in a Helmet, is a double-helix ride, taking the reader across a landscape of puberty, fraternity life, military service, career transitions, marriages, war wounds, battles with prostate cancer and bereavement. They derive the cover of the book from an incident that occurred in 1970. Bob received a photograph of a letter Ron had written to him, which he’d … [Read more...] about Letters In A Helmet, A Story Of Fraternity And Brotherhood by Ron Sorter and Bob Tierno
Interview with Author – Bob Stockton
About Bob Stockton: Bob Stockton, author of seven books, was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Leaving school in his junior year Bob began a twenty-year Navy career in 1957. During the course of that twenty-year career Bob has sailed the seven seas while serving in surface vessels (destroyers), diesel electric submarines, auxiliary vessels, aircraft carriers, reconnaissance attack squadrons and patrol gunboats in Vietnam. Following Navy retirement as a Chief Petty Officer, Bob has earned … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Bob Stockton
Interview with Author – Marvin J. Wolf
About Marvin J. Wolf: I began my career as a US Amy combat correspondent in Vietnam. Returning to civilian life, I worked in employee communications for a few of America's biggest companies. In 1978 I struck out on my own. For several years I wrote anything that would generate income--brochures, advertising copy, newspaper and magazine stories, and corporate research papers. In 1983 I was asked to write a book about Japan's business activities. The Japanese Conspiracy put me on the publishing … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Marvin J. Wolf
Interview with Author – Michael McCormick
About Michael McCormick: Charles Michael McCormick grew up in Ohio, USA, and based the story told in his book, Across The Pond, on his experience as U.S. Marine who served in combat during the war in Vietnam. Upon his return to the United States, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal and the Purple Heart. After the war Michael earned a B.A. in psychology and his M.A. in clinical psychology. He has worked extensively with Vietnam war veterans and now lives in Oakland, California with his wife … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michael McCormick
Across The Pond by Michael McCormick
Across The Pond by Michael Mccormick is the story of a young American who fights in Vietnam for his country, only to be rejected when he comes home from the war. The author based the story on his experience as a U.S. Marine who served in combat. In the foreword for the book, Ron Kovic wrote, "This book with it's deeply compelling narrative grips the reader from the beginning and does not let go. I believe it will be recognized as one of the important books to come out of the Vietnam … [Read more...] about Across The Pond by Michael McCormick
Swift, Silent and Deadly: Recon Marines in Vietnam by Michael J. Schneider
Imagine being one of a 7-man team in the middle of a jungle where any person you might encounter will try to kill you. This is enemy territory, inhabited by an unknown number of enemy combatants. You might encounter 1 or 2 of the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army or just as easily 50 or more. In addition, there is the danger of man-eating tigers and poisonous snakes! Your mission is to find the enemy without them finding you. You are to report their position so that artillery batteries, … [Read more...] about Swift, Silent and Deadly: Recon Marines in Vietnam by Michael J. Schneider
Excerpt From The Candlestickmaker by Dennis McDougal
About your Book: Rub a dub dub Three men in a tub And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker The candlestickmaker And all of them lost at sea. Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled an America they were raised to love but somehow no longer understand in the tumult of the late 1960s. When forced to choose whether to face combat or stay and fight the war in the … [Read more...] about Excerpt From The Candlestickmaker by Dennis McDougal
Revik: Allie’s War, Early Years by JC Andrijeski
Revik: Allie’s War, Early Years ~ The year was 1974...and she’d finally found him... Prior to meeting Allie Taylor in San Francisco in 2012, infamous seer and infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik, lived life as a Rook, as one of their most senior lieutenants. By 1974, he’s worked for Galaith for over thirty years, ever since he and Terian first pulled Revik out of that Nazi prison in Berlin, in 1942. Revik tells himself he’s helping his people, working for ‘the Org,’ as he thinks of the Rooks’ … [Read more...] about Revik: Allie’s War, Early Years by JC Andrijeski
