Paddy and the Banshee: A Mythical Memoir Unlike Any Other by Marty Martin

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The story began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory about a Banshee in Ireland. As repressed memories surfaced, the story evolved into a memoir unlike any other. The story blends imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy in the 1960s and his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, and back to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy’s name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

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Pages/Word count: 196 / 35,992

My Father and My Uncles by Jim Hodge

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From the building of the Ledo Road into China, to the battlefields of Guadalcanal, New Guinea, the Philippines, and the air and ground war on continental Europe, the author's father and uncles relate their World War II timelines and experiences.
Through interviews and correspondence with each of these six men before their passings, the pattern of young men being transitioned from the Depression into a wartime footing is not only a precious family history, but a chronology that reflects on all those who served in those years. In total, these young men were spread out across six of the earth's seven continents. Included is a recently discovered handwritten journal of one of the men's bombing missions over Eastern Europe.
Praise God that they each came home to create the extended family that the author has been privileged to be part of.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 217 / 22,427

Crazyhorse: Flying Apache Attack Helicopters with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq, 2006–2007 by Daniel M McClinton

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This book describes aerial combat at the controls of the fearsome AH-64 Apache attack helicopter during the Operation Iraqi Freedom “Surge.”

This memoir reveals, for the first time, many stories of selfless service, courage, and sacrifice that will be compelling to all readers. At the same time, it also illustrates the absurdities that are involved with living in a massive bureaucracy like the US military. Also included are many original color photographs taken by the author in the combat zone.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 303 / 96,210

Disgracefully Easy: A B-24 Pilot's Letters Home by William Hanchett with Thomas F. Hanchett

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Long before William “Bill” Hanchett became a professor of history and a notable expert on Abraham Lincoln, he was a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. While telling a unique story of the Army Air Forces, Disgracefully Easy: A B-24 Pilot’s Letters Home is a book of correspondence which highlights Hanchett’s early writing, powers of observation and growing historical perspective. In addition to vivid first-person descriptions of flying, Hanchett’s letters and postal cards discuss the difficulties of a once wealthy family struggling to recover from the Great Depression.

From living as a recruit in a luxury beachfront hotel converted into barracks by the Army, to taking courses at a civilian college as an aviation student, to “bombing” the San Diego Naval Base in his future beloved home town, Bill Hanchett takes his family with him from basic training through advanced flying school where he hoped to be a hotshot fighter pilot, “dancing around the sky.” Instead, much to his chagrin, he was assigned as an instructor-pilot, teaching cadets from the rear seat of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. He began to enjoy being an instructor, but as the war progressed and the flying school closed, Lieutenant Hanchett transitioned to become a four-engine bomber pilot in the fall of 1944, as the presidential election was well underway. Clearly expressed in his correspondence were Bill’s strong opinions about the divisive politics of that time, which usually conflicted with his father’s outlook.

Ultimately, in early 1945 Bill became responsible for training a bomber crew in the Nevada desert for an overseas assignment which never materialized because the war ended. While training his men hard, he became frustrated with what he viewed as pointless flying and concluded to his father that his service was “disgracefully easy” compared to others who saw combat. The chapter introductions and notes in Disgracefully Easy were prepared by Bill Hanchett’s son, Tom.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 308 / 94,928

Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage by Heather Sweeney

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Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage is about a woman’s journey from being overshadowed by her husband’s military career to rediscovering her identity as a single mother entering a new stage in life. The memoir explores how, like many military spouses, she camouflaged her identity, conforming to the expected role of the supportive wife who was secondary to her husband’s career as a Navy officer. But after she ended her thirteen-year marriage in her late thirties, she set out on a quest to figure out who she was as a woman without her husband, discovering that the hardships of military life—the forced independence, frequent loneliness, required adaptability, and fierce resilience—had trained her for life after divorce.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 294 / 79,000

The Master Chief's Sea Stories: Volume II Duty Ashore and USS Comte De Grasse (DD 974) by Johnny J Moye

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The Master Chief’s extraordinary journey continues as he spins his yarns from the second four years of his naval service. First, while becoming a renowned teletype technician, Moye delighted himself in the freedoms that shore duty afforded—further discovering himself both as a person and a sailor. Then, when thrust into an incredibly demanding leadership role aboard one of the world’s most formidable warships, he guided man and machine through what also became his crew’s most difficult duty. Head-on, together they met the mission.
The meek sailor we found in Volume I transformed into a true sailor’s sailor as he led his crew through extraordinary hardships found only at sea. With the mission always first, Moye also stereotypically enjoyed wine, women, and song in ports far from the hills of his childhood. All forging him into the confident sailor, communicator, and leader he became.
Based on his daily journal entries, Moye vividly recounts life-changing events as they unfold—telling a unique story rooted in lived experience. He captures his ongoing transformation, along with that of the sailors alongside him, in tales full of adventure, hardship, and sometimes incomprehensible moments.
Follow the Master Chief as he revisits some of his life’s most pivotal events, preparing him for future challenges—both professional and personal. Sail alongside through moments of euphoria and despair while navigating life’s tempests at sea. Truly, this is a story like no other.
Hold fast for these stories within are straight-up, no-shitters—as raw and real as they get.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 670 / 245,000

TOP FIN: Tales of Courage and Chaos from a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer by George Cavallo

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Master Chief Darell Gelakoska wasn’t supposed to be there. At forty-three, decades older than the kids beside him, he marched back into Navy Rescue Swimmer School to prove that courage doesn’t retire with age. What followed was a test of grit, humility, and relentless determination that defined a legacy.

Top Fin pulls you straight into the unforgiving world of Coast Guard rescue swimmers—the elite few who leap from helicopters into raging seas, knowing the line between life and death can come down to seconds. Through hurricanes, shipwrecks, and helicopter crashes, these stories reveal not only the danger of the missions but the humor, chaos, and raw humanity of those who answer the call.

This isn’t just a memoir of rescues. It’s the journey of a man who helped shape the future of lifesaving itself. From sleepless nights on storm-tossed decks to the creation of the Advanced Rescue Swimmer School, Gelakoska’s story shows how experience, innovation, and stubborn willpower transformed training for generations to come.

Told with cinematic detail, gallows humor, and unflinching honesty, Top Fin is equal parts history and adrenaline—perfect for fans of military nonfiction.

Step into the cabin. Hear the rotors thunder. Watch the cabin door slide open to the storm. This is what it means to be Top Fin.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 456 / 57,885

Waiting at the Red Gate by Weston Roudebush

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Some gates you cross change everything. Others you barely notice until you look back and realize how far you've traveled.
Standing at his red gate, waiting for his family to come home, Weston Roudebush reflects on the journey from a quiet kid who kept his head down to a father teaching his boys that the strongest hands are often the gentlest.
This isn't a book about dramatic moments or battlefield heroics. It's about the spaces in between where character is forged in kitchens and bedrooms, where steady hands learn to build instead of break, where quiet strength speaks louder than any war cry.
Through stories spanning military service, law enforcement, fatherhood, and faith, Weston maps the territory where boys become men not through violence, but through the courage to remain tender in a hard world. These foundations are built not with concrete and steel, but with patient presence and the willingness to stand watch at the gates that matter most.
For fathers raising boys into men. For veterans learning to live with what they've carried. For anyone who has discovered that the deepest strength often speaks in whispers.
This is a book about building something that lasts, one quiet choice at a time.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 225 / 56,158

The Resurrected Pirate: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Career of the Notorious George Lowther by Craig S. Chapman

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The Resurrected Pirate reveals the astonishing life story of George Lowther, the most singular buccaneer from piracy’s golden age. This book explores his motivations, mistakes, tactics, and leadership as he trolls for victims and chases down his prey. Based on meticulous research, Lowther’s years ravaging the Caribbean and North Atlantic provide insight into the sordid lives of sea bandits. The brutality of the age comes into focus as he and his partners inflict robberies, torment and sometimes murder, culminating in their own deaths by violence, hangings, and Lowther’s supposed suicide in 1723. A stunning revelation adds a whole new chapter to his story. Lowther later re-emerges from a contented civilian life to help Britain in time of war and thereby restore his reputation. Commissioned in the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Lowther throws himself into capturing part of Spain’s empire in a dramatic quest for redemption.

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Pages/Word count: 240 / 90,000

Pig Fat Soup: How I Survived My USS Pueblo Prisoner of War Journey by Steven Woelk, Robert Lofthouse

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First-Hand Account Brings USS Pueblo Story to Life

It was one of the darkest days in United States military history, as the US Navy failed to protect the USS Pueblo in international waters off the coast of North Korea in January 1968. Pueblo was captured by the North Korean Navy shortly following the Blue House Incident and her crew was subjected to 11 months of captivity, torture and medical treatment with no anesthesia.

Steven Woelk was one of the 83 crewmen aboard Pueblo when it was captured. One sailor was killed in the capture, while the other 82 endured hardships that barely can be understood by rational people. Steven was severely injured, and this is his story.

Nearly 60 years later, Woelk has assembled his thoughts and memories into a captivating book: PIG FAT SOUP: Surviving My USS Pueblo Prisoner of War Journey. His story blends history, context and personal experience into a manuscript you won’t be able to put down.

Woelk describes the tranquility Pueblo’s crew felt in the days and weeks prior to the surprise attack by the North Koreans. Even though the US Navy did not equip Pueblo with the necessary weaponry to defend, they believed the safety of international waters would eliminate any antagonistic efforts by the enemy.

Woelk saw his best friend, Duane Hodges, die in the effort to destroy TOP-SECRET documents. Woelk was the most severely wounded of the remaining 82 crewmen. He underwent multiple surgeries in primitive conditions, without anesthesia. He then went through months of separation from the rest of the crew as he recovered. Upon his return to the rest of the captives, his fellow crewmen were suspicious that Woelk had been brainwashed by the North Koreans and placed in their midst to US Navy secrets.

Readers will be privy to the inmost thoughts of isolation, confusion, anxiety and anger that permeate the mind of a prisoner of war, during and after captivity. PTSD is common among most military veterans who have served in combat yet is unique in its manifestation to each one.

Upon its release, Pig Fat Soup earned Amazon best seller status at number 35.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 187 / 47,200

Fugitive Son by Aramis Calderon

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Aramís Calderón was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings. They were searching for Aramís’s father, who had escaped from a nearby federal prison. Once satisfied with the answers from Aramís’s mother, the marshals departed. At daybreak, so did Aramís’s family—and drove toward a rendezvous with his father, who had fled to South Florida. Thus began an eight-month ordeal of constant moves, family aliases, and drug deals.

As Calderón shares, Fugitive Son is not a love letter to his father, whom he sees even after his death as an unethical, toxic, and incredibly complex man. Rather, Calderón’s memoir explores how his father’s undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís’s rebellious decision to join the Marines, and how all this shaped his determination to become the father he wished his own had been.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 214 / 64,000

Welcome To The Jungle - A Sailor's Memoir of Service Aboard the USS Fresno (LST-1182) by H.J. Peterson II

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A 17-year-old kid from Wyoming joins the Navy to earn money for college and ends up gaining an education he didn’t expect. Welcome To The Jungle is a no-holds-barred coming-of-age tale of how a boy became a man in the U.S. Navy. Follow the author from his decision to join the Navy through boot camp and out to the fleet aboard the USS Fresno (LST-1182) and his adventures in the Western Pacific, and finally into the Navy Reserves. Read the real-life stories of what the Navy was like for an enlisted kid in the late 80's and early 90's. This collection of stories, memories, and journal entries documents a boy's transition into manhood and beyond. If you've ever wondered what being in the Navy was REALLY like, this book holds the answers.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 600 / 284,230

Fatal Second Helen: A Modern Veteran's Iliad by Josh Cannon

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In the tradition of Jonathan Shay’s 'Achilles in Vietnam' (1994), Josh Cannon’s 'Fatal Second Helen: A Modern Veteran’s Iliad' brings to the audience a discussion of Homer’s Iliad that allows the ancient text to teach us about modern war. Cannon’s work differentiates itself from Shay’s by discussing the Iliad holistically. His book seeks to demystify the Iliad through connecting it to his military service via a presentation of his personal stories.

By sharing his story, Cannon’s book shares a new angle on an old tale. He makes the Iliad accessible to any audience and helps unearth a lesson that, despite being millennia old, still has much to teach us.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 178 / 50,000

Knowing My Father: The Collision of the OB Jennings and War Knight by Col. Joseph R. Tedeschi, US Army (Ret)

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Knowing My Father: The Collision of the O. B. Jennings and War Knight relates Joe's methodical search to know more about his long-lost father. In that search, Joe discovers the tragic story of the fiery collision of the US tanker O. B. Jennings and the British merchant ship War Knight during World War I as their convoy evaded German U-boats in the English Channel. A US Navy armed guard defending the O. B. Jennings, gunner's mate Michael Tedeschi was heroically rescued by the British Royal Navy escorts from the burning sea. Joe satisfies his search to know his father better and, at the same time, reveals and exposes one of the unfortunate naval disasters that occur in times of war. Knowing My Father serves as a companion to Joe Tedeschi's memoir, A Rock in the Clouds.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 128 / 28,160

Lost in History by FE Taylor

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In the grand sweep of history, this memoir may seem as small and insignificant as an atom in a vast universe. Yet, for the combat infantryman whose story it tells, these experiences form a monumental part of his life. Unwittingly shaped into a warrior through the trials of childhood and adolescence, he is unexpectedly drafted into the Vietnam War, an event that changes his world forever.

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Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 277 / 64,794

Fugitive Son: A Memoir by Aramis Calderon

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Aramís Calderón was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings. They were searching for Aramís’s father, who had escaped from a nearby federal prison. Once satisfied with the answers from Aramís’s mother, the marshals departed. At daybreak, so did Aramís’s family—and drove toward a rendezvous with his father, who had fled to South Florida. Thus began an eight-month ordeal of constant moves, family aliases, and drug deals.

As Calderón shares, Fugitive Son is not a love letter to his father, whom he sees even after his death as an unethical, toxic, and incredibly complex man. Rather, Calderón’s memoir explores how his father’s undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís’s rebellious decision to join the Marines, and how all this shaped his determination to become the father he wished his own had been.

Goodbye Charlie: Recollections of Vietnam by Charlie Hughes

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How would you like to spend one year in South Vietnam in 1967 – 68, enduring the oppressive heat and humidity? One year in a support role in the rear echelon dealing with perimeter duties and random attacks with mortars, RPGs, and sniper fire? One year of long days, short nights, constant sleep deprivation, and non-stop longing for home? No, Charlie Hughes wasn’t humping in the jungle experiencing direct combat with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Charlie was serving his country with a headquarters company, a base of support for the infantrymen and helicopter crews in combat. Any headquarters was always a big, fat, juicy target for the enemy, especially during the Tet Offensive.

In Goodbye Charlie: Recollections of Vietnam, Charlie Hughes shares his experience as an artillery surveyor with the HHB 1st Battalion 27th Artillery. Although his military occupation specialty (MOS) was as an artillery surveyor, Charlie wrote that he did every job on the base—except his MOS. One day, he was given the opportunity to serve as a photographer in 5-5 Headquarters 23rd Artillery Group in Phu Loi. Charlie had studied photography in school, hoping to be a professional before he was drafted. He eagerly accepted. Relevant to his new job, he often traveled in the air above Vietnam with the colonel, who had his own helicopter.

From basic training to and through his deployment, Charlie chronicles the day-to-day nitty-gritty of his experiences. He spent a lot of time developing pictures from his travels with the Colonel, and I was disappointed when I didn’t see any of Charlie’s photos from his time in Vietnam in this book.

Goodbye Charlie is a great legacy for his family and friends. Thank you for your service to our country, Charlie. Welcome Home!

Review by Nancy Panko (July 2025)

 

Author's Synopsis

The story of my year in Vietnam 1967-68 assigned as artillery surveyor with HHB 1st Battalion 27th Artillery, then assigned half-way through my tour as a photographer in S-5 at Headquarters 23rd Artillery Group in Phu Loi. The book takes the reader through basic, training as a battalion in Fort Sill, traveling by ship to Vietnam and the day-to-day struggles of a non-infantry soldier dealing with mortar attacks, the heat, long days, perimeter duties, loneliness, numerous helicopter trips to fire support bases and the Tet Offensive.

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Review Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography

Number of Pages: 275

Word Count: 82,006

Vietnam, The Memoir of a Sandlot Soldier by W. Thomas Burns

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W. Thomas Burns's Vietnam: The Memory of a Sandlot Soldier is a short, humbly written account of a very important time in the author's life.

Starting at Marine Corps recruit training, it details the author's feelings and actions as he becomes a Marine, goes through advanced training, and deploys to Vietnam. Marine veterans will relate to his description of the "yellow footprints" and the manner with which the drill instructors taught their new charges. The book then moves into the author's deployment to Vietnam and his introduction into combat, including descriptions of the heat and smells of the jungle.

Through it all, the author is humble. He minimizes his actions, and never fails to refer to those lost in combat as heroes. It is obvious that the author is incredibly patriotic, and only felt that he did his duty for his country, nothing more, even after suffering a debilitating combat wound.

Marine veterans from the Vietnam era will relate to this story, as will any infantryman who served in combat.

Review by Rob Ballister (July 2025)

 

Author's Synopsis

In late December of 1968, a nineteen-year-old Marine was lying in a hospital bed after having spent eight months engaged with the enemy in the jungles of the mountains of Vietnam.  During his recovery, he began writing about his war experiences.  He returned to his combat unit, and later was among those wounded in action and medevaced to a military hospital in the United States.  As he recovered, he continued to record his experiences "in country".  Those writings form the main part of this Memoir some fifty years later---battles, heroes, everyday bravery, losing the friend right beside you, and larger than life leaders-----told simply and forthrightly of valor and patriotism.

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Review Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography

Number of Pages: 96

Word Count: 9446

The Nightmare of the Mekong by Terry M. Sater

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The Nightmare of the Mekong" is a gritty account of the Vietnam War, from a sailor who manned automatic weapons in intense combat, on the rivers, streams and canals of the Mekong Delta. It is profoundly personal, with diary entries, and letters to and from home. It includes summaries of official "Operations Reports" and military historical records. The interwoven references to music and news of the day provides a vivid picture of the culture and politics of the times. It is a true story of love, family, war, life and death.Some of this story will bring a smile to your face and warm your heart. Much of it will surprise you. Some of it will give you nightmares. Terry Sater takes the reader through the difficult training of being a "River Rat," fighting the Viet Cong on the dark and dangerous rivers, streams and canals of enemy infested territory. The men of the Mobile Riverine Force go through the legendary "S.E.R.E." (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) training, followed by boat handling and weapons training, by Army, Navy, and Marine instructors. Following the training, Sater takes the reader to the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, where death awaits around every bend in the river, or a careless step into the muddy Mekong River, "The River of Nine Dragons." Coming home, Sater sheds light on the terrible price our Vietnam veterans paid for serving their country, both in their treatment by the antiwar protestors, and the nightmares and flashbacks that came home with them. If you can only read one book to learn about the Vietnam War, this is the one. You will feel you are there.

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Review Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography

Number of Pages: 290

Word Count: 169,944

Around the World in 80 Years by Jasmine Tritten and Jim Tritten

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Around the World in 80 Years is a collection of fun explorations told mostly through the eyes of Danish adventurer Jasmine Tritten. Born with the travel bug, she prepared herself for the life she wanted by learning five languages. Beginning with the harrowing story of living as a small child during the Nazi occupation, the author brings the reader into her world. But she also tells warmer tales of Danish holiday traditions, painting clear pictures with her words and descriptions.

Following high school graduation, Jasmine fulfills her travel desires by becoming an au pair to families in England and France. She continues to improve her language skills in both countries while also becoming a young worldly woman, sharing humorous stories, and having the time of her life. That is, until her mother commands her to return to Copenhagen to study to become a medical laboratory technician, and she obeys.

She leaves Denmark, sailing for America at age twenty-one aboard a Norwegian ocean liner, and the adventure continues, falling in love with Carmel-by-the-Sea. Her story continues through family life, extended travel, jobs, moves, hobbies like belly dancing, divorce, a horrendous accident, and finally meeting the love of her life, Jim. Several of Jim’s stories are included in the collection, and the two perspectives and writing styles feel like a visit with the couple.

Lovely photographs and illustrations support the narrative, and the individual stories build a bigger story of a phenomenal life, seeing the world in 80 years. Highly recommended for those who like personalized stories and learning about different countries, cultures, and relationships.

Review by Valerie Ormond (June 2025)

Author's Synopsis

This book contains selected stories inspired by my travels worldwide and some of the two hundred thirty trips I have taken with my husband, Jim, during the last thirty-five years. I developed my interest in other cultures and languages as a little girl growing up in Denmark. Geography and English were my favorite subjects. I traveled with my parents around Europe and learned to speak five languages, Danish, English, German, French, and Swedish, in school. My thirst for travel and adventure escalated with age and continued throughout my life. Join Jasmine and Jim as they recount some of their travels and adventures during their journey Around the World in 80 Years.

Format(s) for review: Paper and Kindle

Review Genre: Memoir/Biography

Number of Pages: 399

Word Count: 55,323