Sid's Book Reviews & Features
The following reviews of books about military-related topics were written for Stars and Stripes.
Copyright on book reviews: 1997, 1998 The National Tribune
Corporation.
All rights reserved.
A Grand Collection
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- If you bet a friend that the idea of U.S. military
aviation originated with the Wright Brothers, you'd be wrong. And if he
bet you that the idea originated with balloonists during the Civil War,
he'd be wrong too.
(Full review of
9/22/97)
Propellers as Buzzsaws
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- It has been said that desperate times call for desperate
measures. And surely no time is more desperate than when you're on the
losing end of a world war. What's a beleaguered country to do ???
(Full review
of 11/3/97)
A Detailed Look
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- Warfare is as old as Man himself: As long as there have been people to fight, there have been things to fight about. But air warfare took place only in Man's imagination until he could devise a way to lift himself from the surface of the Earth.
(Full review
of 1/5/98)
The following feature story, which is based on a book published by Smithsonian Institution Press, was written for The Chronicle of the Horse.
Copyright: 1999, Sid Perkins
All rights reserved.
When Horses Really Walked On Water
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- Before the steam engine was invented, there were three sources of usable power: wind, water, and animals. The first of these to be harnessed -- literally -- was animal.
(Feature article of 5/21/99)