Like many, I was mesmerized by reports during Hurricane Harvey which showed the rescue of residents stranded by flood waters. Among the most dramatic and dangerous rescues were those of our Coast Guard helicopters. The Hurricane Within: Hurricane Harvey Through the Eyes of a Coast...

The Boy Refugee: A Memoir From a Long-Forgotten War by Khawaja Azimuddin is the story of the author as he recalls the time when he was a prisoner of war and how he fought tooth and nail for his freedom. Azimuddin was an 8-year-old child...

Trump, European Security and Turkey is a concise and interesting work of non-fiction on political and international topics penned by author Iveta Cherneva. As the title suggests, the work focuses on the country of Turkey and the involvement of prominent players in world politics such...

The Height of Fearlessness: A True Story of the Power of Perspective by Mia Iwama Hastings and Mimi Iwama recounts the tale of a nine-year-old girl, Mimi Iwama, at the end of the Second World War, as she and her beloved mother come to terms...

Being a leader can take on several forms but the ultimate goal is to guide or manage a group of individuals for a particular purpose, which can be either on a short or a long term basis. In this easy to read book, The Four...

The Bones of Pleiku: Send ‘em home or send me back is a real life memoir as recalled by author John Michael Hanzlik. As the author is a veteran of the Vietnam war, this semi-historical account actually takes place mostly in the nineties when John...

The Little Hospital That Could: A Personal Recollection of the 24th Medical Group at the Crossroads of History by Terrence O'Neil is a military memoir that details Terrence’s experiences while managing the operations of the 24th Medical Group that served during the Panama Canal handover....

The American Civil War was one of the worst conflicts in American history as the scale of the battle – and the losses in terms of people killed, wounded, and missing in action – quickly surpassed the expectations of both the North and the South...

I feel lucky that I missed going to Vietnam, but sometimes I wonder how I would have performed, what it would have been like, would I have even lived through it. I’ll never know, but reading Things I’ll Never Forget by James M. Dixon gave...

The USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a moment of tragedy captured in beautiful writing and telling images. It’s December 7, 1941 aboard the USS Arizona. People look forward to the Sunday morning service usually held at the quarterdeck, some had just returned from leave...