In the seedy New York of 1976, Harris Colt, a Wall Street refugee, opened, with his wife, Margaretta, a specialty antiquarian bookstore, The Military Bookman. The store, in a brownstone in New York’s Carnegie Hill, was a confluence of old and rare military, naval, and aviation history books with the rare characters, near and far, who wanted them. Customers said “it was like Cheers without the booze.” New York lovers and book and bookstore lovers will savor Martial Bliss, Margaretta Colt’s light-hearted memoir of The Military Bookman, a fantasy-turned-reality and a unique enterprise that flourished in the late 20^th century.