Choices shape our lives and experience tempers us. This is just one biography of one of those heroes.
Title: Wait Until Sunset: Memories of a Distant Conflict
Author: Robert E. Burtt
Category: Biography
Reviewed by: Sandra Linhart
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1481090038
Excellent reference to a rank not often mentioned, that of Warrant Officer. African Americans have proudly served in that capacity for many decades, this is a reference, but it is also history.
Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN WARRANT OFFICERS...IN SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY
Author: Farrell J. Chiles
Category: Reference
Reviewed by: Richard Geschke
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1634901118
Colonel Don Price has written an excellent account of some little known heroic events of the Vietnam War. "The First Marine Captured in Vietnam-The Biography of Donald G. Cook," is first what the title states and much, much more. Price blends big picture history with the details of Cook’s life from his birth until he was captured in Vietnam.
BLACK SUNDAY
January 14th, 1945 would be called by the Luftwaffe “Black Sunday” because of the disastrous losses they suffered that day. For the 390th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force, based at Framlingham/Parham in East Anglia, it was mission 243, to Derben, Germany. For them, it also marked the greatest single mission loss during all of WWII, when an entire squadron was wiped out.
Gliders, the silent invaders of World War ll. The missions they flew and the high price paid. History that will keep you involved until the last page.
Title: Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War
Author: Gary A. Best
Category: History
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1625450001