War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice....
Beecher Stowe couldn't be more pleased than to find himself spending that delicious season between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the Hamptons. On his first weekend back, East Hampton stages its annual ragtag, irresistibly corny, small-townish Santa Claus parade, complete with a high school band a...
Ironically, 1st Marine Division commanding officer Alexander Vandegrift wasn’t even on Guadalcanal during the crucial fighting of October 23-25. Instead, he was in Noumea for a meeting with Admiral “Bull” Halsey. In his stead, Major General Roy Geiger, though an aviator, but being senior man on b...
. . . His men, singly or in small, leaderless bands, were chivied and hunted like animals by the victorious Chinese chasing at their heels. Captain Verity suspected, and with reason, that a new hand had been dealt. For him. And perhaps for his child. The time of monitoring the radio and pas...
My first assignment, and I wasn’t even close to getting anything new or exclusive or especially gripping on her quite extraordinary life. The editor had called twice. Patient, he was, admirably so. But you sensed there in his voice a distinct edge, as if he was wondering to himself just what he’d...