A good autobiography serves a serious purpose: you learn valuable lessions from the author's own influences, temptations, challenges, failures, and triumphs, and his assessment of these. The Tents is such a book. A good autobiography is also entertaining, describing interesting people, telling interesting adn funny stories, and transporting you to events you wouldn't otherwise experience. The Tents is such a book. An excellent autobiography makes you wish you had known its central characters all your life. As you read, you become involved with them, and when you've finished the book, you never forget them; they become part of you. The Tents is this kind of book, too. It is excellent.

--Dr. William I. Salmon, Elk City, Idaho

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In a life that led him from the wilds of Idaho during the Great Depression, to the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Col. George S. Oliver's family believed he had a story to tell.

--LEWISTON MORNING TRIBUNE

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Depression hardships forged wonderful bonds.

--BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE

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It was a time of scarcity, a time of little materially, but rich in experience, and a time of war and of love - the story smoothly transitions from personal anecdotes and reflections to comments on historical events he was involved in, whether directly or not.

--IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS

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All 624 pages kept my interest. His sense of humor carries his story about early family life through some sad times during the Depression and continues as it details his military career from the start of WWII to 1974. I thought I'd be skipping over some of the strictly military parts, but even though some of the acronyms were unknown to me, I read every word with interest. My husband found it a book he just didn't want to put down!

--FRAN WICHT - SPOKANE AUTHORS AND SELF-PUBLISHERS

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The Tents is an autobiography of George S. Oliver who grew up in Elk City and learned the value of a good education and opportunity in the Armed Services.

--THE CLEARWATER PROGRESS