From Publishers Weekly

In this insider’s account of the sometimes-lethal strains that military life puts on families, Biank, an award-winning journalist and the daughter of a career army officer, finds much to admire in military spouses. She follows the lives of four women at Fort Bragg, N.C., home of the 82nd Airborne Division: the wife of a high-ranking officer who adds luster to her husband’s career with her own polish; a senior noncommissioned officer’s wife who ambivalently wat (more…)

Review”"General William E. DePuy had an interesting and significant career spanning from combat in the World War II through the rebuilding of the Army after the Vietnam War. Henry Gole’s excellent biography is an important contribution to American military history.” Edward M. Coffman, author of The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941″ — Edward M. Coffman”"General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War is a superb contribution to our knowledge of our army’s transformat (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Sharp shares the story of his astonishing rise out of the Toronto ghettos to founder, chairman and CEO of the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the largest group of five-star hotels in the world. Born to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Sharp began his career building apartment buildings and entered the hotel-building business in 1961. With his wife, Rosalie, the interior designer for the hotels, he decided to differentiate his brand by focusing on midsize and luxury (more…)

From Library Journal

Eales, an editor/writer with the National Archives and Records Administration, has written a history of what life was like for army officers’ wives on the western frontier from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Spanish-American War. She focuses on officers’ wives, because they wrote about their experiences in letters, journals, and memoirs. Most of the women came from middle- or upper-class families and were trained to be proper Victorian ladies. (more…)

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