Here’s your guide, listed by category and in order of reading satisfaction and relevance, to the season’s books. You’ll find new names (Mogelson) and familiar names (Mattis) in nonfiction and fiction about patrols, politics, the Pentagon, peeves and pets:
For summer reading that will resonate long after a beach novel, here are reviews of some of the season’s books. The theme in a handful? The disconnect between the worlds in uniform and out.
Here are reviews of 14 books, including first novels by veteran soldiers and Marines and one in which a PAO explains why public affairs sometimes misses the target.
Military Times book reviewer J. Ford Huffman reads so you don’t have to. In 2015, he offered readers insights into 55 military titles, roughly a book a week. What are the standouts, the books he recommends most highly? Here are the top 10.
