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7 Reasons the Turkey Should Have Been the US National Bird
Lt. Gen. Brian T. Kelly is the deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He serves as the senior Air Force officer responsible for comprehensive plans and policies covering all life cycles of military and civilian personnel management, which includes military and civilian end strength management, education and training, compensation, resource allocation and the worldwide U.S. Air Force services program.
This author channeled his emergency-response experience in the newest Graves thriller
One of the joys of reading is the long-running book series. One-off stories are well and good but there is great joy in reading a multiple book series featuring the same cast of characters and watching them grow and deal with increasingly severe situations. Serialized fiction is not for everyone but if it is your jam, there are few literary joys equivalent to a good series. One long running series is the Jonathan Grave series of books by John Gilstrap.
‘Churchill’s Shadow Raiders’ tells the story of a smaller drama that had a large impact on the outcome of WWII
Much has been written about the major set piece dramas of World War 2. D-Day, El Alamein, and Stalingrad are battles that are well known. Their stories grow into legend with each recounting. But one of the things I find most fascinating about WW2 is there were thousands of smaller dramas both during and in between the major battles. Many of these episodes are barely known except for the most dedicated historian but occasionally the consequences had an effect on the course of the war.
Tales of high-risk espionage in a time of war
This post was sponsored by Kensington Books. The author's comments below on the novels are his own. Some call it locked in a house in a time of plague – I say magnificent time to try out a new book! Books offer us an escape from the tedium of quarantine life, and nothing is more escapist than stories of derring-do and bravery in the face of long odds. To transport you to a different time and place, we have two new offerings from Kensington Books which I am sure will fit the bill.
High stakes on the frozen tundra of remote Alaska
This post was sponsored by Kensington Books. The author's comments below on the novels are his own. Most people are never more than an arm-length from civilization. They live in their apartments, suburban homes, or occasionally they live a short drive out of a town. But there are still places out there that are remote and removed enough to truly be considered the frontier. There is civilization of a sort there filled with rougher men and women for whom the questions of past – When will I eat next?
Sitting down with the author of Task Force Baum, a dramatic retelling of an ill-fated rescue mission during World War II
World War II was so large and all-encompassing that one could spend a lifetime researching and barely scratch the surface of stories to tell. James Shipman, Amazon best-selling author of several historical fiction books, knows this and has a knack for picking interesting stories from this timeframe. His latest book, Task Force Baum, is no exception as it tells a not very well-known story from the waning days of the war.
Fugitives, special operations, and high-stake spy games
This post was sponsored by Kensington Books. The author's comments below on the novels are his own. We have all been there before. It's the holiday season and when you ask the taciturn lover of military fiction and mysteries you share a home with what they want for Christmas, they answer, 'Books!' You roll your eyes and mutter, 'That was helpful' but now you're stuck.
'The Off-Islander' sees a Vietnam vet turned private investigator looking for a missing man in 1982 New England
Growing up, my stepdad kept a series of paperback books high up on the shelf. They were novels by an author named John MacDonald with distinctive color-based titles like The Green Ripper and The Scarlet Ruse. They featured a unique sort of private investigator named Travis McGee. When I was old enough to reach them, they became my entry point into the mystery genre. Travis McGee was a departure from the hardboiled detective stories of an earlier era.
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