Non-Fiction

Title: American Samurais - WWII Camps: From USA Concentration Camps to the Nazi Death Camps in Europe
Author: Pierre Moulin
Genre: History
Reviewer: Mike Mullins

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1477213368

From Pearl Harbor to the Victory in Europe. all the battles in detail through their heroes in a new non-fiction pictorial book.
From the Internment Camps to Camps MacCoy and Shelby, Italy, France ,Bruyeres-Vosges & the rescue of the Lost Battalion, Champagne Campaign, Back to Italy, 522nd Field Artillery first in Dachau Germany, the Niseis honored, the Congressional Gold Medal and more.

Title: American Samurais: WWII in the Pacific - Military Intelligence Service: The Best Kept Secret Weapon in WWII
Author: Pierre Moulin
Genre: History
Reviewer: Mike Mullins

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0983899320

American Samurais WWII in the Pacific Military Intelligence Service The Best Kept Secret Weapon. by Pierre Moulin. From Pearl Harbor to Victory in the Pacific, all the battles in detail through their heroes in a new non-fiction pictorial book. Nisei soldiers all over with the M.I.S., the O.S.S. and the Counter Intelligence Corps, MIS Linguist schools, Battles in the Pacific, A bombs, Surrender & War Crimes Trials, Occupation of Japan, the Niseis honored, the Congressional Gold Medal and more.

Title: Love at First Flight
Author: Captain W. Stewart (Bud) Orr USN (Ret.) and Fran E. Orr
Genre: Memoir
Reviewer: Hodge Wood
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1938231538

Love at First Flight is the memoir of by two outstanding Americans: a courageous naval pilot, Bud Orr, whose career spanned twenty-seven years, and his loving wife, Fran. This volume is an honest, beautifully crafted story of Bud and Fran's inspiring relationship, a testament to their deep love and service to their country. It is a page-turning account of a sterling military career, complete with adrenaline-filled descriptions of a daring pilot flying many dangerous missions in advanced warplanes. Love at First Flight is a powerful reminder about the real sacrifices that men and women in the Armed Services must make to preserve a relationship, and the incredible rewards that come with that sacrifice. Like a catapult launch off an aircraft carrier, Bud and Fran's story will propel readers through recent history—from the Vietnam War to current day America. A tender, moving, and inspiring volume, Love at First Flight is the perfect gift for any military member, military family, or military historian.

Title: I'll be in the Fourth Grade Forever
Author: Maria Ruiz
Genre: Memoir
Reviewer: Barbara Peacock

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1475041748

A memoir of years from 1942 to 1953 as seen by a young girl who was transported from California to war torn Europe to Kansas with her army officer father.

Title: Eyes Right
Author: Tracy Crow
Genre: Memoir
Reviewer: Bob Doerr

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B007IPQ4XC

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess,
Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in
the Corps she became a respected public affairs officer and military
journalist—one day covering tank maneuvers or beach assaults, the next
interviewing the secretary of the navy. But success didn’t come without a
price.
When Crow pledged herself to God, Corps, and Country, women Marines were
still a rarity, and gender inequality and harassment were rampant. Determined
to prove she belonged, Crow always put her career first—even when, after
two miscarriages and a stillborn child, her marriage to another Marine
officer began to deteriorate. And when her affair with a prominent general
was exposed—and both were threatened with court-martial—Crow was forced
to re-evaluate her loyalty to the Marines, her career, and her family.

Eyes Right is Crow’s story. A clear-eyed self-portrait of a troubled teen
bootstrapping her way out of a world of alcoholism and domestic violence, it
is also a rare inside look at the Marines from a woman’s perspective. Her
memoir, which includes two Pushcart Prize–nominated essays, evokes the
challenges of being a woman and a Marine with immediacy and clarity, and in
the process reveals how much Crow’s generation did for today’s military
women, and at what cost.