Historical

Title: Gone to Graveyards
Author: Brewster Milton Robertson
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0615445357

GONE TO GRAVEYARDS—an epic novel of the Korean War (Amazon.com quality paperback, Kindle & B&N)

Erotic, suspenseful, exciting, masterfully paced with unforgettable characters, overflowing romance, birth, death, danger, tragedy, across a wide geographical landscape, leading to a surprising, satisfying denouement, Brewster Milton Robertson’s new fiction, GONE TO GRAVEYARDS—an epic novel of the Korean War, is a veritable rollercoaster of a novel in the literary tradition of James Jones’ From Here to Eternity or Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War.
THIS NOVEL IS UNIQUE IN THAT EACH CHAPTER IS PREFACED WITH ACTUAL NEWSPAPER HEADLINES/ARTICLES FOR THE DATES THE CHAPTER COVERS.
NARRATIVE OVERVIEW

Title: The Ensign Locker
Author: John Zerr
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Sandra Miller Linhart

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1450243843

Set in 1966. Most of the action takes place aboard USS Manfred, a Navy destroyer, operating in the waters off North and South Vietnam. The five junior officers live in the ensign locker. Against a backdrop of the social, moral, and geographic forces working to shape the nation, and the expanding Navy's efforts to adjust to the demands of this new war, the denizens of the ensign locker all struggle to adapt to the Navy and to the rigors of combat, but no one struggles more than the junior ensign, Jon Zachery. But even after a new commanding officer takes a personal dislike to Zachery, nothing affects the junior ensign as much as being personally attacked by anti-war college students after he returns from his combat deployment.

Title: Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
Author: Sonia Meyer
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Lee Boyland

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0982711514

In 1956 Khrushchev s Thaw triggers the Hungarian Revolution and upheaval in the Soviet Empire. During Khrushchev s first state visit to Helsinki, Dosha, star rider of the Soviet Dressage Team and her horse defect with the help of local Gypsies. The novel follows the life of Dosha, a Gypsy in disguise. It offers unique insight into the tribal life of nomadic Gypsies, who under Stalin joined partisans fighting Nazi invaders, only to face entrapment during Khrushchev s Thaw. By then Dosha and her talented circus horse have been drafted into the dressage team in Leningrad. Navigating political intrigue, narrowly escaping discovery by the KGB, she enters a love forbidden to Gypsy women. One goal remains uppermost in her mind leading her tribe and her horse to freedom in the West.

Title: Wisconsin Iron: A Novel of the Civil War
Author: Michael Eckers
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Don Arndt

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1453874739

Fighting in the famed Iron Brigade, Henry McCollum was already a combat veteran before his 17th birthday. This novel is about his experiences fighting to preserve the Union against the Confederate forces. From First Bull Run to Gettysburg, the Iron Brigade fought in every major eastern engagement of the American Civil War. Henry was right in the middle of it all.