For this Memorial Day, we offer our best wishes, deepest thanks, and a commemorative bouquet of military-related links: Author Joseph Koenig's personal list of the Best Fiction of World War II. “Afghanistan: My Green Zone Symphony,” is a 4-part feature on his deployment by military veteran Weston Ochs, author of the SEAL Team 666,…
The public image of Richard Burton (1925-1984), for better or for worse, will forever be intertwined with Elizabeth Taylor (who he married twice) and for a lifetime struggle with alcohol. But at his Hollywood start, Burton established himself as a top Shakespearean actor on par with Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. Poor film choices—a number…
The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher is a novel for teens about a high-schooler with a PTSD-suffering father, a veteran accused of killing another teenager who was in the woods to meet her boyfriend for a drugged and drunken night's entertainment (available January 7, 2014). Ever since her father returned from combat, Emily Shepherd and…
