REVIEWS

"Soldier Boy transcends time and binds the sense of service to America during the transforming 1960s. I feel like I know and have come to like Tim Bazzett, even though I have never met him. Now that's an effective memoir!"

Quang X. Pham
CEO, former USMC pilot, and author of the acclaimed memoir,
A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey

"I greatly enjoyed Soldier Boy. [Bazzett] has a rare talent - I've seldom encountered the like in fifty years of college teaching: the ability to keep the reader moving forward!"

Paul Fussell
author of the WWII memoir, Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, and The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Plucked strings of memory with anyone who 'suffered' through years of army life -- or navy life for that matter."

Jim Crees
Pioneer News Network

"I will highly recommend this book to any and every old ASA buddy I can track down, as well as to anyone who simply wants to know how a boy turns into a man. If you served, you will live it all over again. If you didn't, here's what it was like. A great read!"

LTC Chuck Squires
US Army (ret.), former Defense Attache,
US Embassy Bishkek, Kirgyzstan - and former ASA ditty-bopper

"I read Soldier Boy with great enjoyment. Never mind that it doesn't have a war in it - it has a very likeable and convincing soldier ... A gift for detail and keeping the narrative moving. Well done."

Samuel Hynes
author of the classic WWII memoir, Flights of Passage

"Bazzett, who wrote the completely charming Reed City Boy, has an insouciant approach to his own life, [which] he makes his way through with wit and humor and more than a bit of brazenness ... His look at his army days is unvarnished. He remembers everything ..."

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Traverse City Record-Eagle

"I read Soldier Boy ... My main impression was that [Bazzzett is] a hell of a nice guy, raised in a family of kind and caring people, and who raised his family in the same way ... A remarkable achievement. Lord knows where this writing thing came from, but obviously he's got it. In spades."

James Crumley
author of The Right Madness
and the cult classic ASA novel, One to Count Cadence

"Tim Bazzett's book should be a required read for any ASA veteran ... A touching and honest memoir that will make you veterans smile ... Reading this book will make most of you say, 'Holy Cow! I'd forgotten that and now it triggers my memory bank of old buddies' ... Forts Leonard Wood, Devens and Meade, then Turkey and Germany. It's all there in a whimsical style, with chicken crap and Mickey Mouse events scattered throughout the book."

Elder R.C. Green
1SG, US Army (ret.),
and editor of the ASA Turkey veterans' newsletter,
Days of Our Lives

"I'm still laughing my ass off ... classic!"

Capt. William Sims, USAF (ret.)
author of Somalia Diary

"Soldier Boy brought back memories of my own service as a young enlisted soldier in the early 1960s ... A world full of adventure and camaraderie only those who have served far from home in the military understand ... If you want a good read, this is a book well worth your time. I enjoyed it."

Col. Henry W. Neill, Jr.
US Army (ret.)

"A delightful read, and a recommended one for any veteran or for a family member. It's true to life, our life, as we experienced the good and bad times of our military service ... [Bazzett] got it correct!"

Vern Greunke
ASALIVES.com Webmaster,
and author of Beller's Fellars: Letters from Viet Nam, 1966-1967

"A truly affectionate snapshot of a genuinely more innocent and gentle time ... A very funny service narrative that many with armed forces experience will automatically identify with. I am passing the book on to my father, who is a veteran of World War II ... I'm spreading the word, and look forward to the third installment!"

Dr. Neil A. Patten
Ferris State University Professor of Communications

"I really enjoyed reading Soldier Boy. It brought back memories, since all of the services have something in common."

Darryl Ponicsan
author of The Last Detail and Cinderella Liberty

"I found it a real treat to read about the 'male' side of the military. Soldier Boy's honesty is simply mind-blowing - fantastic!"

Helen Gilbert
author of the memoir, "Okay, Girls - Man Your Bunks!" Tales from the Life of a WWII Navy WAVE

"Soldier Boy is one of those rare gems where, you sit down in the afternoon intending to only read a few pages, and you find yourself finishing that same evening. The detail and the humor that mark each page make it a book that transcends the military memoir and transforms it into a universal coming of age story...If you've been in the military, you'll instantly smile at the recognition of shared experience, and if you haven't, it just might make you feel as if you had."

Johnny Rico
author of the 2007 military memoir, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Greener: A Year in the Desert with Team America

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