The premise of Robert Harris’ most acclaimed novel, Fatherland  (1992), is an interesting thought-experiment expanded into an alternate-hist...

Jack Finney 's first three novels – 5 Against the House , The Body Snatchers , House of Numbers – all appeared in glossy magazines befo...

According to his obituary in The Washington Post, author Franklin M. Davis Jr. (1918-1981) served with U.S. armored forces in Europe during ...

Henry “Harry” Patterson (1929-2022) became a household name using the pseudonym of Jack Higgins . The British author was prolific from 1959 ...

  John Rester Zodrow was a screenwriter of made-for-TV movies in the 1970s and 1980s who also authored four novels, including a   WW2   thri...

Robert Wright Campbell (1927–2000) was a television writer who crafted teleplays for many shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including Maverick ...

James A. Michener (1907-1997) was a bestselling author who never knew the identity of his biological parents, or when and where he was born....

Stephen Mertz cut his teeth writing hard-nosed action-adventure fiction set in Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan literary universe. In the 1...

When I was a kid, a film my father seemed to always have on was The Devil's Brigade . It was originally released in 1968, but played con...

Jack Higgins (real name Harry Patterson, 1929-2022) was just getting his feet wet as an author when Seven Pillars to Hell was published. I...

Richard Burton Matheson (1926-2013) was a multi-genre author best known for his horror and science-fiction works. In 1944, Matheson was 1...

Right off the bat, let me just say I review vintage paperbacks. I love paperbacks. Bestsellers, Lowsellers, Nosellers, it makes no differenc...

I can remember watching all of the old war films on TBS as a kid. My father had them on and I always camped out on the living floor to watch...

Lou Cameron (1924-2010) mastered so many genres of written entertainment from comic books to westerns to mysteries and so on. Drop Into H...

Independent American horror author Daniel Volpe created a critical hit in 2021 with his self-published novel, Left to You . The paperback c...

Alistair MacLean's   The Guns of Navarone was an eight-part WW2 serial that first appeared in the September 22, 1956 issue of Saturday...

It's hard to believe that just down the road from me, here in the Sunshine State of Florida, the Nazis invaded. It's a little known ...

Back in 2016, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle teamed up for a book titled A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories by Robert F. Do...

Author Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a British novelist that authored a number of short stories for the early magazines and pulps ...

In addition to being a catchy anthem of heavy metal and a hit movie, Where Eagles Dare is perhaps also Alistair MacLean's most belove...