Book Reviews

Title: Cast the First Stone
Author: J.E. Buck Ballow
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Mike Mullins

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0741459329

It starts as just another routine murder case for Army CID Agents Edward "Easy" Behr and his partner, Chelie Bees. A very beautiful young lady shot in the back outside the NCO Club at Fort Buckner, Okinawa, and left lying on the sidewalk to die. However, as it unwinds the agents find themselves involved in a tale of rar reaching, unbelievable horror.

Title: Sunchon Tunnel Massacre Survivors
Authors: Pat McGrath Avery and Joyce Faulkner
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
Reviewer: Andy Lubin

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0978515811

In the early days of the Korean War, 450+ American prisoners were marched from Taejon, South Korea, to Seoul, then on to Pyongyang, North Korea. There they boarded a train. On October 19, the train pulled into a tunnel. The North Korean guards unloaded the prisoners, a few at a time, and executed them. Eight of the known survivors tell their story.

Title: Guiding Lights: United States Naval Academy Monuments and Memorials
Author: Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Reference
Reviewer: Rob Ballister

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1591140161

In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the Academy's monuments and memorials. To personalize the memorials and the naval figures they honor, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, award citations, and other documents. Along with famous quotations, the book also presents poems and tributes written by midshipmen that explain how the memorials have inspired them, along with original poems by the author. More than 140 illustrations, including black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historic sketches, visually enrich the book. In revealing the people and events behind the Academy s memorials, Arbuthnot provides models or guiding lights to help readers steer their own courses through life.

Title: K9 Heroes: Together We Protect, Defend, and Conquer as One
Author: Nicole Arbelo
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
Reviewer: Carmen Stenholm

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1432744755

Presents stories of courage and duty, friendship and family, loss and love, as told by the men and women serving with the Military Working Dogs, whose tasks include scouting, search and rescue, and the detection of explosives. Families and friends remember the servicemen and women, and their Military Working Dogs, who gave their lives for their country's service, as well as presenting a vivid picture of the life and times of a K9 Military Working Dog handler.

Title: In Green Sleep: A Tour of Duty
Author: Jerry Ackerman
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1462002447

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schwäbisch Gmünd, no one would ever suspect him of doing anything out of the ordinary. Specialist Bluderin is about to prove everyone wrong.

As John begins his first assignment, he meets Leda Beschwörung, a petite, dedicated agent able to jump twenty yards at a clip and infiltrate the enemy seamlessly. Leda, a practitioner of Gestalt psychology, makes Bluderin feel worthy again and becomes the catalyst in his coming-of-age journey, changing his life forever. Under Leda's diligent mentoring, Bluderin's perception of human nature sharpens. He soon encounters Günter Mann, a clairvoyant shepherd whose advice leads him to a Norwegian goddess. Solveig Evensen introduces him to a new world of emotional, intellectual, and erotic passion where both learn to transcend their past barriers. But it is Bluderin's final assignment that places his life on the edge of death.