Why was this thing resurrected? "Memphis, Nam , Sweden" was fraudulent when it was first published many years ago and it hasn't gotten any more true in the intervening decades. Terry Whitmore's assertion that he participated in a planned atrocity-the killing of upwards of 400 Vietnamese non-combatant villagers was and still is a total fabrication. Mr. Whitmore first peddled this bilge to Mark Lane for Lane's book "Conversations With Americans", published by Simon and Schuster in 1970. Neil Sheehan-of Pentagon Papers fame-shredded this tale for a review of Mr. Lane's book by interviewing men who had served with Mr. Whitmore and by examining Mr. Whitmore's service records, records which showed that Mr. Whitmore's battalion operated in an unpopulated area near the DMZ. Mr. Whitmore could not have helped kill 400 people who never existed; the next person who comes forward to corroborate Mr. Whitmore's fantasy will be the first.

Mr. Whitmore was wounded in combat and deserted rather than return to his unit after his recuperation in Japan. He was spirited from Japan by the Soviet Navy, and lived for a time in the Soviet Union before settling in Sweden. His tale not worth telling is told in a writing style that alternates between comic book adventure and low pornography. Crude racial and gender stereotypes abound; Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are "...hot-headed and always ready to fight"; women are "broads", and "...they're all alike". Mr. Whitmore also advocates the violent overthrow of the American government. This is a truly awful book.

That man is a traitor and should have been shot.

I finished this book on one day I just couldn't stop read it, it's great, Terry Whitmore a tough marine goes to vietnam there hi do his duty for uncle Sam but in one hell of a fire fight hi gets hit and leaves Nam for hospital treatment, later he gets better and gets orders to go back to Nam but hi had it this time and desides to escape military life and moves to beutiful country of Sweden. Read it!

Don't bother looking elsewhere for this book, you're not likely to find it. I've found that Kessinger Publishing has many many books you won't find elsewhere.

This book offers a rare glimpse into what was going on in the obscure Memphis Rite of Freemasonry around 1870. Burt, the Grand Master of the Rite, defends retaining 96 degrees in the Memphis Rite when the French Grand Lodge wanted to reduce it to 33 degrees.

Interesting reading for those with a taste for Masonic history.

Absorbing the content of this book was very difficult. I had to stumble over a significant number of interspersed shorts on Memphis BBQ teams to get to the "meat" of why I purchased the book. Stick to the recipes! The 64 pages of recipes were broken up by 24 pages of BBQ teams (over 1/3 of the book). Meat recipe pages to team histories ratio was 32/19 (over 1/2). Point made! Many recipes needed temperature ranges rather than subjective "medium-hot", "medium-low" etc. Directions for preparation were simple, a positive. However, since side dish recipes were provided, full meal suggestions (sides, desserts, bread etc) for each meat dish would have been helpful. In summary, the book could have been 1/3 shorter by writing a separate book on Memphis BBQ history. Perhaps including an index, listing recipe pages under different cuts of meat would have been helpful (refer to Smoke & Spice as an example). Memphis has a definite passion for BBQ, but their recipe books could use a "double helping" of structure.

Rehashed material from other sources, notably Yarker's outline of the degrees. Not much original here. You've probably already got this material in other books if you're a serious student of Masonry.

Just a reprint of previous printed documents. Not very elaborate. Boring.