Find The Black Box
Find The Black Box can be a healthcare game-changer – if – I can get enough people to read it, and begin to understand that; your, your children’s, and your grandchildren’s healthcare system is broken, and no one is talking about why it is broken, and how to begin to fix it until now. This book is a well-intended challenge to every healthcare expert, and it comes from my combined experiences in military aircraft and as a squadron commander at 23, and also as a surgeon and anesthesiologist.
The Military Art of J. Thomas Leamon
A compact, soft-cover, heavily illustrated book that is a colorful variety of cartoons, sketches, paintings, models, dioramas and writings, reflecting artist Tom Leamon's fascination with war and his own experiences as a combat veteran in World War II.
Smokey Joe & the General
Autobiographical and biographical--through the lives of two extraordinary American leaders, Brigadier General John E. Wood and Lieutenant General Edward L. Rowny, a fast paced exploration of almost 40 years of some of the most fascinating innovation and leadership in America's integration of technology in military capabilities. Rowny worked for Generals Marshall, MacArthur and Eisenhower, and along with Wood, rates the leadership qualities of each in Smokey Joe & the General.
Maggie's Wars
“Maggie’s Wars is a highly charged story, with power politics on a grand scale... the frightening realistic descriptions and technical know-how is right on the mark and Phil Pisani’s skill at painting a vivid scene in the mind’s eye of the reader is excellent and packs a wallop.” William H. LaBarge author of Sweetwater Gunslinger 201, Hornet's Nest, Road to Gold and Desert Voices.
Little Moments
Story about two of the finest Cairn terriers ever and their exploits through life.
Southern Memories
"Southern Memories" is about growing up in the Great Depression in rural Mississippi. It also contains two very large chapters about my great-grandfather and other relatives who fought in the Civil War. My great-grandfather was Isaac Smith and he enlisted in the 24th Mississippi Infantry and spent four years in many major battles such as Atlanta, Lookout Mountain, Corinth, Vicksburg, etc. The unit had 1000 men in 1861 but only 25 at wars end in 1865.
STROKE OF GRACE; Knowing God's Grace in Distress and Triumph
Author Jerry Heydenberk writes specifically of his "Vietnam Combat Flying" in Ch. 5 of a book that recounts the many times he has known God's surprising grace. Heydenberk relates the three times he feared for his life in Vietnam, serving 18 months (1966-68) first at Banmethuot as 155th pilot/IO and then at Nha Trang as PIO with 17th Aviation Group. This is a must reading for anybody who ever flew a rotary wing aircraft in trying situations.
Dear Gang
Dear Gang is a collection of letters combat photographer Gary Vogt wrote home to friends and family while serving with the legendary 1st Air Cav. in Vietnam. Included in the book are over forty photographs Gary took of his basic training and his work documenting several battles and the every day life of a soldier in Vietnam.
Dear Gang, letters home from a combat photographer with the 1st Air Cav. in Vietnam.
"Dear Gang" is a collection of letters combat photographer Gary Vogt wrote from June 24 1967 to June 19 1968 while he was attached to the legendary 1st Air Cav. in Vietnam. They paint a picture of a soldier's eye view of America's most divisive conflict since the Civil War. The letters are written to family and friends back home in Connecticut. He tries to shield his mother from the reality of the war while being more forthcoming with his father, a combat veteran of the Second World War.
Saving Tres Rios
Retired Air Force Sergeant Robert Madden thought the war was behind him, but he entered Tres Rios, New Mexico, and a new war was just beginning. When Madden stops in Tres Rios on his way to California to pursue a doctorate in education, he runs into a local drug lord and halts all of his plans. To escape from a corrupt police force and legal action, Madden is given a choice in punishment--state prison or a year teaching troubled kids at a rural school. Protecting his students and to survive.