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May 23, 2019

REVIEW: Honorable Exit by Thurston Clarke

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical / non-fiction / Vietnam / War / Military3 Comments

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A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by ... more >

April 4, 2019

REVIEW: The League of Wives by Heath Hardage Lee

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 1970s / activism / non-fiction / prisoner of war / Vietnam / War / Military2 Comments

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried ... more >

March 26, 2019

REVIEW: Lady of the Bridge by Laura Kitchell

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsarranged-marriage / class differences / Historical / Japan / Japanese culture / political intrigue / road-romance / Samurai / War / MilitaryComments Off on REVIEW: Lady of the Bridge by Laura Kitchell

Forbidden love between a warrior princess and an elite samurai makes for an adventure set during the early days of the Tokugawa shogunate. Join this couple in a race across 17th century Japan where political unrest has created dangerous ronin, civil uprisings, and war-ravaged castles. Caught in the middle of ... more >

February 14, 2019

REVIEW: The Adventurers by Jane Aiken Hodge

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / France / Historical / Napoleonic wars / older heroine and hero / second chance at love / War / Military8 Comments

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‘You may be an adventurer, but you strike me as a gentleman.’ After the French suffer a bloody defeat at the battle of Leipzig, the survivors of Napoleon’s army retreat through Germany. Plundering and pillaging along their way, a group of stragglers attack the Von Hugel estate. Hiding in the ... more >

February 12, 2019

REVIEW: The Sky Above Us by Sarah Sundin

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArmy / England / Historical / inspirational romance / pilot / Sunrise at Normandy series / War / Military / World War II1 Comments

Numbed by grief and harboring shameful secrets, Lt. Adler Paxton ships to England with the US 357th Fighter Group in 1943. Determined to become an ace pilot, Adler battles the German Luftwaffe in treacherous dogfights in the skies over France as the Allies struggle for control of the air before ... more >

January 10, 2019

REVIEW: All the Things We Lost by Liz Trenow

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / Diary / dual-timeline / England / paramedic / post WWI / PTSD / War / Military / World War I1 Comments

Once upon a time I would have trusted him with my life, but the Alfie I fell in love with seems to have disappeared, and I’m afraid I’ll never find him again. 1918 – As victory bells sound across London, Rose Barker waits for her darling husband Alfie to come ... more >

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