If you liked the movies NETWORK and BROADCAST NEWS, then you’re in for a rare treat with Allan Jefferys’ e-book version of his novel, ZOOM IN TIGHT – A NEWS STORY. Allan Jefferys knows whereof he speaks. As a veteran reporter and theater critic before TV news became a plaything of the consultants and gimmickry [...]

The Viet Nam War refuses to go away. More than three decades after the ignominious abandonment by the U.S. of their close ally, South Viet Nam, comparisons to current wars – Iraq, Afghanistan – are made continuously, and books keep coming off the press. One of the latest, and to me, one of the best [...]

This lively chronicle of Retired US Army Colonel Vern Pike’s book, “Checkpoint Charlie – Hot Spot of the Cold War,” is more than a brief memoir of his service during the Cold War. Considering its timely release during our Nation’s political turmoil, and utilizing psychohistory, it is most daunting. Therefore, I recommend this literary non-fiction [...]

Observing the international situation these days with emphasis on the War on Terror, a cold warrior like me gets nostalgic and almost wishes for a return to the “good ole days” when we knew precisely who the enemy was and what the stakes were. Vern Pike’s “Checkpoint Charlie – Hot Spot of the Cold War” [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Many have inquired how to purchase the book. The full instructions are at the bottom of this article. Here are the essentials. To buy the book, “Forsaken Heroes of the Pacific War: One Man’s True Story,” by Don Morrow and Kevin Moore send a check for $27.95 made out to: The Bedford Group, [...]

Larry Ellis has written an extraordinary book on running a small business–Secrets for a Successful Small Business: What the University Will Not Teach. He begins with an explanation of the core values that one must embrace if one is to be successful in the business world. These first chapters make it clear that to be [...]

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He recently published a book titled, “The Frugal Superpower,” with the subtitle “America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era.” As the title suggests, this book is about the potential limitations of [...]

Ask almost anyone and he or she will agree that Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most important figures of the Twentieth Century. At the same time, many of us do not know as much about this man as we think or perhaps should. Historian Paul Johnson gives us a convenient way to learn [...]