Book Reviews

Tom Callahan receives news of a sighting of an American in Viet Nam believed to have been there since the Vietnam War. The partial description matches what Tom believes his father, missing in action since the war, would look like. He strikes out on a voyage to find his father, only to find himself in the middle of a deadly government cover up.

Chita Quest
by Brinn Colenda
Book Category: Fiction: Mystery thrillers
Reviewed by Bob Doerr
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1940869072

Pioneering black aviator Eugene Bullard, descended from slaves, became the world’s first black fighter pilot, though he was barred from serving the United States because of the color of his skin.

Eugene Bullard; World's First Black Fighter Pilot
by Larry Greenley
Book Category: Young Adult Biography
Reviewed by Sandra Miller Linhart
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B00G3ONYWS

May 8, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea pitted the U.S. Navy against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the first epic sea battle of WWII. It also marked the first time two large navy fleets fought a decisive battle without ever coming into visual range of each other. Kieth captures it all in Stay the Rising Sun.

Stay the Rising Sun
by Phil Keith
Book Category: Non Fiction: Historical
Reviewed by Bob Doerr
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0760347417

When twenty-one year old Della Brown stepped off the airplane in 1969, the heat and smells of Vietnam rocked her. An army nurse, she had no idea of the hell she had stepped into.

Title: Her Own Vietnam
Author:  Lynn Kanter 
Category: Literary Fiction
Reviewed by Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0991355520

VIVID, DYNAMIC HIGH-SEAS THRILLER

Title: Sheppard of the Argonne: Alternative History Naval Battles of WWII
Author: G. William Weatherly
Category: Literary Fiction
Reviewed by: Joe Epley
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1491731915