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February 2, 2021
Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthurs Revenge on Japan. About the Author: No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. No Easy Day spent several weeks at #1 on the New York Times best seller list, and it was the top-selling hardcover book in the industry in 2012. The book is being translated in more than a dozen countries and also debuted at #1 in the U.K. and Canada. Maurer has covered the military for more...
December 27, 2020
Its been 28 years since National Public Radio first broadcast "The Santaland Diaries," David Sedaris slightly exaggerated memoir of working as a Christmas elf at Macys in New York. Since then, the erstwhile Raleigh resident has topped the best seller lists with a dozen collections of his snarky, self-deprecating stories, essays and regurgitated diary entries. Now comes "The Best of Me" -- not exactly a "Greatest Hits" album ("Santaland" is conspicuously absent) but a collection of 46 New Yorke...
December 27, 2020
Among the big local stories in the book world: • The publication of "Wilmingtons Lie" by New York Times writer David Zucchino, the first history of Wilmingtons 1898 violence from a national publishing house. (Atlantic Monthly Press). Zucchino didnt discover 1898; lots of others have written about whats been described as the only successful coup in American history., notably LeRae Umfleet in "A Day of Blood." (Not to mention Philip Gerards novel "Cape Fear Rising.") Yet Zucchino put the incid...
December 19, 2020
Former StarNews and Fayetteville Observer staff writer Kevin Maurer has written a gripping account of one of the Second World Wars forgotten battles. "Rock Force" is a must-read for military history buffs and could round off some last-minute Christmas lists. The "Rock" in this case is the island of Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped extinct volcano sitting in Manila Bay in the Philippines. For centuries, Corregidor stood as a natural fortress commanding the approaches to the port of Manila. When the ...