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  FOR THE LOVE OF A GIRL By William Hiles Trafford Publishing 230 pgs   This review is personal. During the Vietnam War, 2.7 million American men and women served in that faraway country. 58,000 of them died there. William Hiles was there and so was I. After graduating from high school in 1964, I worked in a shoe factory until 1965 when I enlisted for three years in the Army. Hiles graduated in 1965 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Marines. After two years of duty in U.S. bases, I was sent to Vietnam the Spring of 1967 and would be there until the summer of 1968. As it turns out, Hiles was also In-Country at the same time, though we never met. He was a Radio Operator stationed in Da Nang and I was a Personnel Specialist attached to the Adjutant General Office at Army Headquarters in Long Binh. Both us felt the heat, the monsoons and the mud. Both us did guard duty, burned shit and were attacked during the massive enemy Tet Offensive of 68. Whereas Hiles s...

  KING KONG The Annotated Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace By Micah Swanson Harris A Minor Profit Press 346 pgs In the September of 1932, production of the film King Kong began at RKO Studios in Hollywood. Conceived by studio executive and producer, Merian C. Cooper and directed by Ernest B. Shoedsack, it would become one of the most successful films of all time. Prior to that first day’s shooting, the story had been bandied around between Cooper and British thriller writer, Edgar Wallace. Tragically, Wallace died of pneumonia after only having penned a rough outline of a script whose elements would be ultimately discarded as production continued. After Wallace, Cooper drafted James Creelman, a skilled action writer along with a few other scribes. Appreciating what Creelman had written, Cooper still felt the script needed more romance. To that end he recruited Shoedsack’s wife, Ruth Rose. Rose had been an actress back in New Jersey before signing on with several wild...