“PROLOGUE Late in the history of the earth—25 million years ago—a series of cracks opened northwest to southeast in the floor of the North Pacific Ocean. In paroxysms of explosions, and sometimes in quiet but fiery rivers, liquid magma poured out of the fissures and became lava flows that formed mountains under the surface of the sea. No human eyes saw this drama, nor witnessed the titanic battles that followed. The lava mountains pushed above the surface and were attacked by the elemental forces of nature—the wind and the sea. In a glacial period, the rise and fall of ice caps on distant continents helped raise and lower the level of the sea. Yet despite the erosion caused by wind and water, the islands persisted. In time, the islands would remain like beads on a string across 1,500 miles of open ocean. Then there was a time of quiet. At some unrecorded moment the mountains blew up again, and volcanic activity resumed. Vast lava flows rampaged down the mountainsides, flowing and tumbling in dazzling pyrotechnics. More land was being born. The battering of the waves and the hard force of a wind that blew steadily out[…]” Excerpt From: Scott C.S. Stone. “Honolulu Heart Of Hawaii.” iBooks.
This perennial best seller details the explosive events of December 7, 1941, the day Japanese war planes attacked Pearl Harbor, launching America into World War II. Historic photographs and detailed renderings help illustrate the insightful text by veteran author Scott C.S. Stone.
The Coasts of War was the first full-length novel of Americans fighting in Vietnam. A black beret American, his South Vietnamese officers and men occupy a dangerous and lonely outpost. Their mission is to prevent coastal reinforcement of the local Viet Cong, protect or pacify the local village, and carry the war, when and as possible, against the enemy….
Winner of the 1969 Edgar Award, The Dragon’s Eye takes us behind the Bamboo Curtain into a world of espionage and intrigue in China. Why me? I was no hero. Just a war-wise, war-weary combat reporter who’d pushed his luck too far and too long. Still alive and tired of all the dying. Now all I wanted was a long blonde in a short bikini and a star to steer her by. I cabled my resignation and got the hell out of Asia. I got as far as Honolulu. That’s where an old buddy brainwashed me into a mission that would rattle the guts of the most hardened agent. A rescue job behind the Bamboo Curtain. A former British correspondent, now top man in the Chinese news service. A man with lethal secrets…and a Chinese mistress. A man who would deal with no one but me. Why me? I couldn’t figure it out. And there was only one way to find out….
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