LIBRARY - Book Review Recommendations:
1. Two books by Ejner Fulsang:
Ejner Fulsang is a West Point grad from Class of 1974, recently turned writer/publisher. He is also a third-generation soldier who first joined the Army in 1967 as a helicopter pilot under the Warrant Officer program. His Dad, Col Ejner Fulsang was the Professor of Military Science at OSU in the early 1970's, and was a member and former President of the Military Officers Club of Corvallis.
Ejner Fulsang will donate $0.25 to the ROTC scholarship fund for each copy of "A Knavish Piece of Work" sold .
Hardbound Edition Trade Paper Edition
a. A Knavish Piece of Work
is a novelization of the infamous
Mayaguez
Incident
of May 15, 1975 wherein the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia captured
a U.S.-registered container ship en route to Sattahip, Thailand on a routine
resupply mission. Then president Gerald Ford called for an immediate
rescue of the crew, believed to be held on Koh Tang, a minute island in
the Gulf of Siam. A last-minute mission was thrown together in which a
force of Marines would be airlifted from U Tapao, Thailand to Koh Tang
by Air Force CH-53s and HH-53s. The mission was a disaster with
eighteen men killed in the assault and only three of the original fifteen
helicopters flyable at the end of the day. Among the dead was the author's
friend Richard Van de Geer, the last name on the Vietnam Veteran's
Memorial Wall. Everything from inexperience to poor intelligence was
blamed for the fiasco. And the captive crew? They were released by the
Cambodians early in the morning of 15 May, not from Koh Tang, but from
Rong Sam Lem, another island twenty-two miles away! Moreover, Ford
knew the crew was not on Koh Tang and he knew it some twenty hours
before the assault began.
2.
Dear Kilroy: A Dog to Guide Us, by Nora Harrison. "The
author of this lovely book is well aware of that spot deep within us that
sometimes only dogs can find. The dogs in these stories touch that spot
and make it glow. Life's
Lessons that will touch your heart...warm, funny, moving" Betty White,
Actress/Author. Visit the "Dear Kilroy" WEB site at
http://www.dearkilroy.com
3. American Nightingale, by Bob Welch. Bob Welch is a speaker, author, award-winning columnist and teacher. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has keynoted conferences, workshops and retreats across America, and lately has been concentrating on medical events after the release of his book, American Nightingale (Simon & Schuster's Atria Books, June 2004). The book, heralded by Publishers Weekly as a "stirring story," is about the first nurse to die after the landings at Normandy. Among his seven others books are My Oregon, A Father for All Seasons and Where Roots Grow Deep.
Several of his books are available at Amazon.com. See Amazon links below.
His WEB site is at http://www.bobwelch.net
4.
Easy Company Soldier, by Don Malarkey and Bob Welch.
The Legendary Battles of a
Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers."
Don Malarkey was a member of E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne and served more consecutive days in combat than any other member of that unit. Bob Welch is a speaker, author, award-winning columnist and teacher. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
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