Review: JAPAN BRATS: THE YOUTH WHO BRIDGED OPPOSITE WORLDS

by Allen Dale Olson Michael Weddington’s three-volume Japan Brats serves up nearly 1,500 pages of eminently readable accounts of what it was like to be part of one of America’s greatest and largest social science experiments in history. Whether you like factual history – of Japan, of the Pacific Theater in World War II, the imposition of

AUTHOR: Graciela Tiscareño-Sato

“We love how [these books] introduce children to the life of a military Latina mamá, a role often not associated with minorities especially not women. Graciela Tiscareno-Sato is a trailblazer when it comes to being a voice for Latinas in the military… …a perfect addition for any family or home library.” –Frances Evans, Discovering The World

Author: Frank Warner

‘Tumbleweed Forts’ is an Army brat’s story of 1960s adventures in Fort Huachuca Nearly 60 years after he left Arizona as a young Army brat, a retired journalist has written a book on his “dream home” in Fort Huachuca, the one Army post he never wanted to leave. In Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,

Author Rick Tavares

IT BEGAN IN JAPAN Military brat and military veteran Rick Tavares recently released It Began in Japan, a fast-paced fictionalized memoir and murder/mystery that will have readers guessing up to the very last minute. The story follows four military brats living at Yokota Air Base, Japan, and spans five decades as they navigate the complexities

Author: Valerie Bonham Moon

Launch day has arrived for E Pluribus Unum: GRAICE Under Pressure, another anthology produced by the Museum of the American Military Family.  E Pluribus Unum: GRAICE Under Pressure joins two other books from the Museum. One, Schooling With Uncle Sam, is a first-person memoir collection of DoD schooling with the overseas American military. The other, On Freedom’s Frontier, gathered first-person