Although it could easily and accurately have been titled “Alexander the Great: A Boy’s Life,” C. Benjamin Tracy’s historical novel of the young Macedonian in the years before he went off to conquer most of the known world is more... Read More

“Fires, blood and foreign heavy shoes on the soil of nations do not make a new civilized relationship based on love of convergence,” laments Fatih Abdulsalam, an Iraqi journalist and editor-in-chief of an Arabic newspaper based in... Read More

Timing is everything, and T. Spencer Adams’s Frank Capra-style story of a common man of common sense being catapulted into the race for U.S. president is well timed. Like Capra’s Depression-era film classics Mr. Smith Goes to... Read More

Everyone has a story to tell, but not every story is all that interesting to other people. Marty Toohey has labored honestly on this collection of forty-two very short stories and poems, all but three of them relating events or anecdotes... Read More

From Indiana farm boy to Vietnam fighter pilot and beyond, Fredrick L. Pumroy often seemed to “live on the edge.” Stories about his narrow escapes from enemy anti-aircraft fire over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and dances with death in all... Read More

“It’s the gore and grue and the shrieks of the women and the spurting of the blood that thrills the soul of any buccaneering boyo,” chortles one of the many talking animals playing pirates in John Dahlgren’s absolutely delightful... Read More

Long famed in the Arab world as the father of the modern historical novel, the late Jurji Zaidan is little known in English-speaking countries. Although the Lebanese-born writer died nearly a century ago, The Zaidan Foundation believes... Read More

A 1967 graduate of West Point, Richard Barlow Adams captures the spirit of that grand old school for generals in his novel The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War. Several cuts above mass-market fiction on the... Read More