This week, we look at an engaging history of battlefield medicine and a must-read by a “horse whisperer” who uses horse sense to train leaders.
Fiction A Victorian Thriller
‘By Gaslight: A Novel’
By Steven Price
In this trans-Atlantic Victorian-era thriller, Detective William Pinkerton, son of the famous American detective, is in search of the man his father could never find: Edward Shade. His search through London and into South Africa reveals more than he expected.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, 752 pages Courage and Comradery in the Pacific
‘Battle Cry’
By Leon Uris
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Leon Uris left high school without graduating, enlisted in the Marines, and saw action at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. In “Battle Cry,” he replicates these experiences, taking us into the lives of a group of young men as they go through training and into combat. Written less than a decade after the war, this enthralling novel also captures the patriotism, the culture, and even the slang of that day. This is a great read for military buffs and devotees of realistic fiction….