Tenth Legion

Tom Kelly is my favorite author of all time and Tenth Legion is a true masterpiece. It is a must read for every serious turkey hunter. His wit and humor are flawlessly intertwined with years of turkey hunting experience. The literary value of this book, as with the rest of his books, is in a class by itself. I am convinced that Kelly could write about anything and make it a pleasure to read.

Tom Kelly is the Mark Twain of our time. I have read this book more times than any other book save the Bible. The stories are so well written that I slow down my reading so that I can admire the way he plies his craft. Every hunter should have this book in his library.

Tom Kelly has a great dry wit and it comes out very well in this book. I refer in particular to his opinions on deer hunters. A great quick read for anyone who enjoys turkey hunting.

Tom brought back a lot of memories in the way he described Deer Hunting in the seventies. He also gave a lot of useful information on Turkey Hunting. I really enjoyed his humor in his tales. Anyone thinking of Turkey Hunting should read this book first. Anyone that has bee hunting for a while would also find useful information in here.

It should be a crime to turkey hunt without reading this one! Tom Kelly's work here is simply marvelous. In depth he illustrates what makes a turkey hunter tick and why this individual is compelled to rise rise each and every morning before dawn to go in search of the wild turkey. He tells of some hilarious adventures of his own in the Alabama woods. Though it is not a "how-to" book, any hunter can learn something from this one. This book can be read from cover to cover without the thought of putting it down. As for myself, I read it each year before the season and goose bumps rise on my skin each time. It's that good! The introduction of the book says it best when it reads, "...the book proposes to let you hear, just one time and however faintly, what so many others hear with clarity and purpose all their lives, that dim and distant beat of that other drum."