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The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

Nicholas Gurewitch

Dark Horse Comics, 2007

The Best Comic Ever
A pleasure to review. Wonderful illustration talent (a là Bill Watterson), with a deranged humor we've never seen before. One can read the same comic over and over again, and continue to laugh. And because Nicholas Gurewitch has announced a semi-retirement, we may have ...

The Colonels: Brotherhood of War 04 (Brotherhood of War)

W. E. B. Griffin

Jove, 1986

Outstanding book!
I had found this book used, and I read through it. I've known from previous books of his that I have read that he takes military life down to the smallest detail. I'm an active duty US Marine and its refreshing to see him break down the most mundane things in ...

On the Hunt: How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror

Colonel David Hunt

Three Rivers Press, 2008

A lesson in character this nation sorely needs
When one reads the news, and listens to the expert opinions of "talking heads" on TV, it's all too easy to believe that the free world is facing complex problems that allow for no reasonable or successful solutions. The messages we receive include the following: we ...

Get Selected! for Special Forces: How to Successfully Train for and Complete Special Forces Assessment & ...

Major Joseph J. Martin

Warrior Mentor, 2006

Soldiers Helping Soldiers
GET SELECTED is the only reference book designed specifically by Special Forces Soldiers to help aspiring, future Special Forces Soldiers attain their goal of earning the Special Forces Tab and the coverted Green Beret. GET SELECTED has already helped countless Service ...

The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

USMC, Colonel Thomas X. Hammes

Zenith Press, 2006

Thoughtful, neutral and critical of business as usual
This book joins a number of others (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, The Utility of Force,Tactics of the Crescent Moon) that advocate a more carefully thought out, less technology-driven and hopefully more productive approach to fighting terrorism. And, make no ...

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

Colonel David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman

Touchstone, 1990

Excellent Read......... Highly Recommended ... 5 stars
Excellent Read......... Highly Recommended ... 5 stars About Face chronicles the experiences of the youngest colonel serving during the Vietnam circumstances. The book itself begins in February 1951 with Hackworth facing the enemy in Korea and is divided into ...

American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day

Robert Coram

Back Bay Books, 2008

Bud Day Was My Hero Long Before Vietnam
In 1957 USAF Captain George "Bud" Day came TDY from Flying F-84s at Weathersfield, UK to Etain AB, France to check out in the F-100. He was assigned to the 562nd FBS where I was a first lieutenant also upgrading in the bird from F-86s. Bud was an affable guy and we ...

Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck

Hans Von Luck

Dell, 1991

Memoirs from the other side.
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck is an amazing book on a German officer who fought, and fought well, within the ranks of the German military forces. His insight about many of the military and tactical issues really helped clear up some of the ...

On War
Carl, Von Clausewitz

bnpublishing.com, 2007

Written two centuries ago by a Prussian military thinker, this is the most frequently cited, the most controversial, and in many ways, the most modern book on warfare. In this work, Clausewitz examines moral and psychological aspects of warfare, stressing the necessity of courage, audacity, and self-sacrifice, as well as the importance of public ...

James Bond: Colonel Sun (James Bond)

Kingsley Amis

Titan Books, 2006

An absolute "must-have" for all dedicated James Bond fans
Latest in a series of James Bond daily strip collections, James Bond 007: Colonel Sun by the team of Kingsley Amis, Jim Lawrence, and Yaroslav Horak is a graphic novel compilation of black-and-white daily newspaper strips that adapted Ian Fleming's classic James Bond ...

Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook, Third Edition (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Colonel Wm. T. McLyman

CRC, 2004

Great Book, Buy it!
This is probably the best book on transformer design that I've found. It's geared towards the engineer who actually wants to design a real working transformer. The text is comprehensive, and the discussions are inteligent and easy to follow. There are tons of real ...

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw

University of Georgia Press, 1999

The "real" Robert Gould Shaw is in these pages
If, like me, you have seen the film "Glory", where Matthew Broderick plays Col. Robert Gould Shaw, white commander of the black 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War, you will see only a brief a glimpse of who Shaw was in his short life. Broderick does a ...

Colonel Warburton's Madness & Other Mysteries: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Anthony Boucher, Denis Green

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2004

Excellent stories!
I wouldn't listen to the previous post if I were you. This series was extremely popular to arm chair dective fans through World War II. You feel yourself thrown back in time as Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings the listeners back as he accounts his adventures with ...

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley

Alanna Nash

Chicago Review Press, 2004

A True Depiction of Andreas' Heart
In all of my Elvis journeys I have been waiting for a long time for a book that depicts the true hidden world of Colonel Parker (aka Andreas) and his relationship with Elvis. The research and conclusions of Alanna regarding his inner secrets are extraordinarily ...

They Just Don't Get It: How Washington Is Still Compromising Your Safety--and What You Can Do About It

Colonel David Hunt

Three Rivers Press, 2006

Hunt Should Be The Secretary of Defense
Col. David Hunt has written a superb plan for fighting the war on terror. It is bold, decisive, and politically incorrect. It is also far better than what we are doing or anyone else is talking about. The author traces the history of terrorism from the 1972 Munich ...