Shelby Foote (17 November, 1916 – 27 June, 2005) was an American historian and novelist known for his landmark work on the American Civil War.

An excellent biography of a President who was probably the most influential person to hold office between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln

These stories makes you appreciate where you came from, and what people have done to preserve our way of life. The most fascinating parts are not the stories of the men and women who went on to bigger and better things, but the stories of those who came home, settled down, and lived a full life.

Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner is a fascinating and well researched book giving an excellent treatment of what basically amounts to domestic spying

Tomorrow, February 18 we will celebrate the birthday of award winning author Toni Morrison. An author, speaker, professor, and mother, Ms. Morrison has accomplished a lot and deserves to be honored as one of American’s greatest living treasures.

William C. Rempel, an investigative reporter, wrote the excellent non-fiction book “At the Devil’s Table” which I recently read and highly recommend.

Jorge Salcedo was an insider of the Cali cartel, thinks of himself as noble, he joined the cartel to fight against the notorious Pablo Escobar

When Frederick Merill leaves his wife Katharine and children to fight in WWII everything seems to be fine. however over the years Frederick starts to change

The book follows the battle of Okinawa through the eyes of the grunts on the ground and the commanders of both the American and Japanese forces

After the Normandy invasion. Told through the eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, private Eddie Benson as well as Germans Gerd von Rundstedt and Albert Speer.