With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge is a World War II account of a private, E.B. Sledge, and his experience on Peleliu and Okinawa.  Sledge started out in college to be an officer, but decided to enlist as a private in the United States Marines .  His first battle was Peleliu which [...]

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Tarawa 1943: The Turning of the Tide by Derrick Wright, Illustrated by Howard Gerrard is the history of the Battle at the Tarawa Atoll during World War II .  Tarawa was the first attempt using Admiral Nimitz’s island hopping strategy.  When looking at a map of the South Pacific, Tarawa is in the far southeastern [...]

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The Last Juror by John Grisham is about a murder that happened in Mississippi and the jury that judges the accused criminal.  Willie Traynor acquires the local weekly newspaper and reports on the murder, the trial and everything in between.  He also befriends a black women in Lowtown, across the tracks, who ends up on [...]

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I bought The Seventh Sanctuary by Daniel Easterman thinking it sounded like a good conspiracy/Da Vinci Code type book.  I only got through 50 pages and put it down.  I seldom put books down, but I just couldn’t get into this one.

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The Carrier Series is a very good series of books based on modern United States aircraft carrier warfare.  This series follows the career of Tombstone Magruder and also throws in other characters from a carrier battle group including, Batman Wayne, Bird Dog Robinson, and Lab Rat Busby.  I have read these books completely out of [...]

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Chain of Command is the twelfth book in the Carrier Series by Keith Douglass.  In this book, Tombstone Magruder is still trying to track down what happened to his father.  He can get answers, but at a price.  Will Tombstone pay it?  While he is there, the communists send a missile at the USS Jefferson.  [...]

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Criminal Kin is the one hundred ninety-fifth installment of The Gunsmith Series by J.R. Roberts.  In this book, Clint Adams has to stop a bank robbing family.  The Gunsmith gets involved when a ten year old girl guns down the sheriff while the family is robbing the bank.  Now Clint leads the posse in tracking [...]

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Escape from the Ashes by William W. Johnstone is the thirty-fourth and last book in the Ashes Series.  I must admit, that I had a little tear in my eye in parts of this book.  Ben Raines has gone to Canada to track down a terrorist organization.  However, his plane is shot down and Ben [...]

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The Blade Series is a spinoff to the EndWorld series.  In this series, Blade leads the Freedom Force.  The Freedom Force has members from each of the six free civilizations in the United States following World War III.  This book was entertaining, but I prefer the EndWorld series.
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Triumph in the Ashes is the twenty-sixth book in the Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone .  In this book Ben Raines and the Rebels head to Africa to fight Bruno Bottger, a Hitler support.  Bottger has created an enormous army of African people.  As we all know, Ben Raines will defeat Bottger, but will [...]

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