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May 2001 (Archive)

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The mystery Scorpion in last month's issue of this site's "What's New" section is no other Doug Chapman - Class of '66.

FEATURED SCORPION - TOM RICKS

Tom Ricks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post. Below is a photo of Tom from the 1970 Scorpion (Page 49 - Freshman) and the cover of his first book, Making the Corps.

Click here (or on his photo above) to see a recent photo of Tom and to read about his latest book (his first novel): A Soldier's Duty.

Click here (or on the cover of his book above) to read Mary (Meadows) Pyburn's review of Making the Corps.

MORE BOOK REVIEWS

Reviews of the following books have been added to the Book Reviews section of the Multimedia Library:

I recommend all three books, specially Louis Palmer's Adventures in Afghanistan. Louis treks into Afghanistan during its period of civil wars and his adventures begin. This book will also get you interested in Sufism.

Peter Levi's The Light Garden of the Angel King is about his travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin in 1970. Did any of the Scorpions living in Afghanistan during this period meet Peter and/or Bruce?

An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot is set in the post-Russian invasion period during the emergence of the Taliban.