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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Eisenhower in War and Peace’

Gary Prisk — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:10:00 +0000

D-Day’s on. Nothing can stop us now – Dwight D. Eisenhower Little can match the age-old romance of cavalry or the pictures that governed my father’s den. In 1952 Eddie Prisk — ‘The Major’ — enlisted my help, escorted me to his 1950 Chevrolet, handed me a bucket filled with ‘I Like Ike’ buttons, and we were off. Assigned ‘every single’ door in the Sheridan Park Naval Housing neighborhood of…

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’

Gary Prisk — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 19:51:30 +0000

Saturday, March 16, 2013 – 20:09 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk Recreating a Marine Company’s past, searching for answers, the son of a combat veteran attempts to recover one of his father’s comrades. ‘Bringing Mulligan Home’ (Public Affairs, 318 pages, $26.99) is a well-crafted father-son quest: What happened to Herman Walter Mulligan, the dead Marine who haunted the life of…

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Those Who Have Borne the Battle’

Gary Prisk — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:06:26 +0000

Monday, May 14, 2012 – 17:21 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk He’s a trained, skilled general, but he has one weakness. He repeats his tactics—and that’s the way I’m going to get him.—Lieutenant General Bernard L. Montgomery after defeating Rommel’s Africa Korps at Alam Halfa Ridge, in eastern Libya, September 1941, weeks prior to the battle of El Alamein.

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘George Washington’s Military Genius’

Gary Prisk — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 20:02:17 +0000

Thursday, May 31, 2012 – 17:12 Huntington News Network Reviewed by Gary R. Prisk A congressman, a land owner, not in the least showy, a man keen to the whims of economic and political intrigue, General George Washington’s landed will was his reason acting in concert with America’s grand goals—independence and westerly expansion. Dave R. Palmer’s “George Washington’s Military Genius” (Regnery…

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