J. Ford Huffman has reviewed 400-plus books published during the Iraq and Afghanistan war era, mainly for Military Times, and he received the Military Reporters and Editors (MRE) 2018 award for commentary. He co-edited Marine Corps University Press’ The End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2012). When he is not reading a book or editing words or art, he is usually running, albeit slowly. So far: 48 marathons, including 15 Marine Corps races. Not that he keeps count. Huffman serves on the board of Student Veterans of America and the artist council of Armed Services Arts Partnership and has co-edited two ASAP anthologies. As a content and visual editor, he has advised newsrooms from Defense News to Dubai to Delhi and back.
Author Nathan Gorenstein reverently respects the subject of his second book, The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World. Browning's pioneering designs and development of ...
Malcolm Gladwell says his seventh book is “not a war story but is a story set in war,” and his disclaimers are on target. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War is not a tale told by 11 air grunts ...
Craig Grossi’s first book, Craig and Fred: A Marine, a Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other, was published in 2017, and he follows that memoir with the similarly titled Second Chances: A Marine, His Dog, and Finding Redemption. This time ...
Nevertheless, she persisted. Despite growing up poor, losing her legs as a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot in Iraq, and narrowly losing her first Congressional election in a campaign with “racist ads,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth persisted. As a retired Army ...
Hope springs incessantly in William H. McRaven’s second self-help book, The Hero Code: Lessons Learned From Lives Well Lived. As commander of the Joint Special Operations Command in 2011, the now-retired admiral and Navy SEAL commander oversaw the ...
The professor emeritus of history at the US Military Academy at West Point, a retired US Army brigadier general who was born on the third of July — the date of Pickett’s Charge in Gettysburg — has done his homework, starting with his hometown. Ty ...
Tension is tantamount to a thriller’s literary success, and three questions elicit immediate suspense about 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis — which the publisher calls a “geopolitical ...
The three Wise boys grow up in El Dorado — the one near Hope in Arkansas, not the mythical one in South America — where Jeremy, Ben, and Beau are not “big on GI Joes” or “playing war.” However, their mother is a “walking encyclopedia” of US ...
Within a decade after graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison, the author serves as a Marine in Afghanistan and Iraq, co-founds the nonprofit Team Rubicon — and writes his first book. His Take Command, Lessons in Leadership: How To Be a ...
When Lt. Jared Rye and the rest of his Army squadron land at Bagram Air Force Base on Christmas Day, an Air Force master sergeant costumed — from the waist up — as Santa Claus greets them on the runway. The “enormous man by military standards — ...
Be prepared to revel. Revolutions of All Colors: A Novel, a Marine veteran’s first book, is refreshingly unpredictable. Dewaine Farria’s auspicious literary debut is the audacious choice for the first Veterans Writing Award presented under the ...
Indefatigable, the Marine veteran of Vietnam and author Bing West is back with his 12th title, a work of suspense that is a page turner 400 times. The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War is not the first word in military fiction but is a ...
Glance at the subtitle that pairs deserters with dissenters and deserters with objectors, and you might scratch your head in bewilderment. What characteristics do a dissenter and a deserter share? What has a conscientious objector (CO) in common with ...
For five years the nonprofit literary journal Line of Advance has organized a writing contest for service members and military veterans in memory of Army officer Darron Wright, who died in a training accident in 2013 — only a year after Osprey ...
During his second tour of Iraq, Ben Brody spends five days photographing and reporting the 101st Airborne’s fight in “the blasted hellscape” west of Iskandariyah. “Two soldiers got chopped up with shrapnel right in front of me,” and “civilians and ...
A guy walks into a bar. And when he walks out, he heads straight to Vietnam — but not to serve in uniform; he’s already been in the Marine Corps. (“I went in as a private and, four years later, I came out as a private.”) His mission as a ...
Heads up, from the author himself: “Although this book is about our time at war, readers should not expect a nail-biting, shoot ’em up thriller.” With that accurate tip, Gus Biggio — “Jagras Gus” in Pashto — presents The Wolves of Helmand: A ...
When a dozen short stories by a Marine veteran of the Iraq War were published as Redeployment in spring 2014, the collection, the writer’s first book, commanded critical and commercial attention. Redeployment is mostly about people with Corps on ...
Glance at the title, and you could easily think this book will tell the inside story of a soldier who is the right-hand man, perhaps an aide, to the notorious Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Think that and you will have been ...
Compare the drawing in a Maximilian Uriarte Terminal Lance or a Steve Leonard Doctrine Man or a C.F. Grant Bohica Blues with the art in a cartoon by World War II legend Bill Mauldin. You’ll notice a big difference in artistic style. War-comics ...
How to carry a rifle is a skill she learned in the Marine Corps. How to carry a torch is a habit she acquired all by herself. In Teresa Fazio’s first book, Fidelis, the woman with a doctorate in materials science and a master’s in writing ...
