Book Reviews

Title: U.S. Air Force Interceptors: A Military Photo Logbook 1946-1979
Author: Mary Isham & D. McLaren
Genre: Artistic, Pictorial
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1580071503

Following the successful format of previous Specialty Press Military Photo Logbooks, this book offers readers an excellent photo compilation of all the great USAF Air Defense Command interceptors from the entire Cold War era. Beginning after World War II with the propeller-driven Northrop P-61 Black Widow and North American F-82 Twin Mustang, the Air Force's aerial intercept mission entered the jet age with the fabled North American F-86 Sabre, Northrop F-89 Scorpion, and Lockheed F-94 Starfire, all of which are still high-interest aircraft today. Colorful and unique mission-support airplanes such as the C-124, EB-57, EC-121 Constellation, and T-33 are included as well as the famed next-generation "Century Series" supersonic Air Force interceptors such as the McDonnell F-101B Voodoo, Convair's F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart twins, and the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. All the great aircraft flown by the Air Defense Command are well documented here with rare archival and candid photography.

Title: Kings of the Green Jelly Moon The Book Vol. 1.5
Author: Lloyd A. King, jim greenwald, James Randy Jellerson, Mike Mullins
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Claudia Pemberton

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 146202789X

KINGS of the GREEN JELLY MOON presents a searing collection of poetry written by a group of Vietnam veterans-each successful in their craft, all award-winning poets in their own right. The title Kings of the Green Jelly Moon recalls the innocence of childhood, a time when children believed the moon was made of green cheese. Then Vietnam changed an innocent generation as truth of war became their reality. From the impact of war on young men and how they are forever changed to the stark reality that fighting in a foreign country, the poems in the collection offer, in verse, a Vietnam veterans' reunion. These soldiers were forever changed by the experience that war forces upon those who fight and return from battle. Those who were lost can never be forgotten.

Title: Blooming Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational
Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Magdelena Ball
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Don Farinacci

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B004GXB4AW

The reality of Christmas does not always resemble the images we see on commercial Christmas cards--or in our dreams. Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Mardalena Ball present a booklet that can easily substitute for a Christmas card. They portray the familar--those of family and warmth, giving and receiving. You'll also find the unusual from carols to the universe to end-of-year pondering with a couple of humorous poems thrown in for good measure.

Title: Through the Years: One Man's Journey A to Z
Author: James Randy Jellerson
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Gail Chatfield

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1451271999

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Title: Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, HC
Author: Billy Tucci
Genre: Artistic, Graphical
Reviewer: Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1401225330

From the bloody beaches of Normandy to the muddy forests of the Vosges mountains, a cut-off Easy Company will be joined by Johnny Cloud and the Haunted Tank as they battle for their lives behind enemy lines against a force ten times their size.

Based on actual events that have been meticulously researched by writer/artist Billy Tucci, who walked the actual battlefields of France and interviewed the veterans of the campaign, “Sgt. Rock – The Lost Battalion” is a story of heroism and humanity where one small band of men defy all odds to survival while their unlikely saviors sacrifice everything and “Go For Broke” to glory in the Vosges Mountains.