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Lloyd Armour

Content by Lloyd Armour

  • An epic re-creation of the Civil War

    Issue: June, 2002
    William R. Trotter has crafted a magnificent Civil War novel, epic in proportion and sweeping in its treatment of the last three years of that bloody conflict. Read more »
  • Blind Descent review

    Nevada Barr has created one of the most interesting heroines in her novels. Read more »
  • Review

    Many believe that the U. S. left prisoners of war in Vietnam. The premise of MIAs being alive somewhere has colored the diplomacy of the U. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: July, 1998
    Patricia Cornwell is back with familiar friends and at her absolute best as a novelist. Though Cornwell has tried other literary pursuits, nothing succeeds like Dr. Read more »
  • Review

    Tom Clancy's long-awaited novel has finally arrived, and fans will delight because it truly is vintage Clancy. Read more »
  • Review

    Microsoft is the five-hundred-pound gorilla of the PC world that sits where it wants, goes where it wants, and does what it wants. Read more »
  • Review

    I can't remember a time when so many writers have been preoccupied with the media while turning their intellectual flashlights on every nook and cranny of the inchoate and sometimes weird forces from Read more »
  • Review

    Readers know they can count on Robin Cook for a thriller that never lets up in intensity until the final page, and Vector is no different. Read more »
  • Review

    Tom Corcoran knows Key West intimately, from its unforgettable sunsets to the smell of conch stew. Read more »
  • Review

    It is not unusual for people who love sports to make money doing something they are passionate aboutÐÐprofessional golfers, ball players, and race car drivers to name but a few. Read more »
  • Review

    It is not unusual for people who love sports to make money doing something they are passionate aboutÐÐprofessional golfers, ball players, and race car drivers to name but a few. Read more »
  • Review

    Battle Born may be fiction, but it is not beyond the realm of fact which makes it all the more chilling to read. Read more »
  • Review

    Battle Born may be fiction, but it is not beyond the realm of fact which makes it all the more chilling to read. Read more »
  • Review

    Set in Victorian England, this is a gruesome story of shipwreck, murder, and a breach of the civilized world's last taboo. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: May, 2000
    Had it not been for Joe Rosenthal's famous picture of the flag raising on Mount Suribachi, the bloody battle of Iwo Jima might well have been almost forgotten and this book never written. Read more »
  • Review

    Issue: June, 2000
    Louis Kilzer has taken on one of the most intriguing puzzles of World War II in his gripping, well-researched book about treachery in the Third Reich. Read more »
  • Review

    The world has been fascinated by Queen Elizabeth I for centuries, and the list of books about her and her reign are as plentiful as raindrops in a summer shower. Read more »
  • Review

    n his new novel, Where I'm Bound, Allen Ballard does a masterful job of filling in the most underreported annals of the Civil War, the fighting exploits of the black soldiers of the Union Army. Read more »
  • The People vs. Big Tobacco review

    When the CEOs of Big Tobacco sat before a House committee and denied, one by one, that nicotine was addictive, America's credulity snapped like a rotten rubber band. Read more »