Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "Spearhead" division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation. This, the first and only biography of this important World War II figure, tells the dramatic story of Rose's life—-from his childhood as a son of a rabbi, through his experiences in World War I and in the U.S. cavalry, to his meteoric rise as America's answer to Rommel. In 1943, Rose negotiated and accepted the surrender of the German Army in Tunisia, the first large-scale surrender to an American force during World War II. At the Battle of Carentan in June 1944, he saved the 506th Parachute Infantry (of Band of Brothers fame), and might very well have saved the entire Normandy beachhead from a catastrophic German counterattack. His brilliant, daring, and aggressive defensive tactics during the Battle of the Bulge prevented an enemy breakthrough to the Meuse River and beyond, thereby frustrating the German advance. Based on original archival research and exclusive interviews, this biography shatters old myths and factual distortions, and offers a refreshingly inquisitive and critical perspective. Steven L. Ossad and Don R. Marsh reveal new insights into Rose's controversial death—-was he killed because he was Jewish or because he went for his weapon?—-and about the even more controversial investigations that followed. As compelling and extraordinary as the life that it describes, this biography pays long-overdue tribute to one of America's greatest heroes.
As she watched his boat disappear into the distance on Loch Carron, Sarah prayed that her blue-eyed bastard son would have a simple, full, and happy life. She would never have dreamed that this boy, the product of a rape, would make his way to the shores of the new America, marry twice, father four sons and a daughter, become a successful merchant, and help pioneer the West. One of those sons fathered thirteen children, the youngest of which was the grandfather of the author. Along the way, this intrepid line of men and women repeatedly had to fight for their lives against both Mother Nature and other men. The adventure started in Inverness, crossed the Atlantic, then went west to Colorado and back several times. They lived with the Oneida Indians, fought and died in the great wars, killed Mexican slavers and river thieves, endured prairie blizzards, tornadoes, and dust storms, and captured bandits. All the time they spread good will with their songs of the old times and the tasty treats of The Recipe. This story lets you experience the adventures and emotions of those stalwart men and women as they traveled across primitive America and made their way through eight generations and two and a half centuries of history.
This book equates leadership with problem-solving. Don proves this with 30 years tutoring experience and by the rationale (and examples) in the written pages. Leaders solve problems. Don’s book shows the methodology of collaboration, i.e. how-to collaborate. The initial section depicts collaboration as facilitated by a third party. It recommends this as a learning tool before engaging in deliberations where the facilitator “owns” a stake in the problem. A follow-up section discusses collaborating amid anger, hidden agenda and two-party collaboration. In other words, when a stakeholder and facilitator are one. In this manner, learning is incremental, develop-mental; knowledge is added to what has already been learned. A Handbook for Collaborative Leaders: Millennials Assess the Workplace of Today introduces a twin-poled leader model to replace the Situational Leadership of Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. It argues that H/B’s accepted model, now some 60 years in use, misidentifies the situation as revolving around internal measures such as knowledge, trust, and closeness. Rather, the actual situation must be defined by external measures -- chiefly, what is confronting workers and what problem does this situation present. Bi-Polar leading reconciles authority-based leading with participatory models as challenged by jurist Michael Josephson in 1989. Until now, that challenge has gone unanswered. Throughout the book, readers will find a sense of supervisors and the rank-and-file bonding into something greater than themselves. Examples of such are found in the case studies, all written not by Don, but by his former students. Without a one-size-fits-all, workshop participants design their unique leader template, one which offers a menu of more than 24 intervention styles.
During the cold war with the Soviet Union, an influential American in military intelligence rewarded Ian McGregor for saving his daughters. McGregor was enrolled in an exhausting training program to exploit his many attributes, and to further his benefactor's career to the status of "general." The Expendable Man is a taut thriller loaded with spies and political intrigue. Old hardliners in the Kremlin formed a clandestine group to oppose Gorbachev's politics as being premature. To prove their point, they schemed with a drug cartel and other criminal gangs to undermine the American economy and make President Reagan's idea of laying a protective canopy over America look like a ridiculous boast. McGregor frustrated their plans in the past, before becoming an agent for an elite organization named C.A.T. (Countries against Terrorism). He changed his name, occupation, and location to marry the woman he loved, only to be tracked by two killers intent on obeying a long-standing order to assassinate him. McGregor is forced to revert to his old identity and becomes an even more formidable adversary to settle scores with the mafia and to unmask a dangerous terrorist. Will he become The Expendable Man?
This collection of family stories is fast moving, drips with drama and takes numerous quick turns as it journeys through the generations. The adventure started in Inverness Scotland and crossed both the Atlantic and the American Continent. They created then died with the tiny settlement of CONFLUENCE in what became central Nebraska. These pioneers lived with the Oneida Indians, fought and died in the great wars, killed Mexican slavers and river thieves, endured prairie blizzards, tornadoes and dust storms, and captured bandits. Hang on tight as this story weaves the travels of this family perfectly into American History.
He was born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, in Hungary. He joined Budapest's National Theater in 1913 and later appeared in several Hungarian films under the pseudonym Arisztid Olt. After World War I, he helped the Communist regime nationalize Hungary's film industry, but barely escaped arrest when the government was deposed, fleeing to the United States in 1920. As he became a star in American horror films in the 1930s and 1940s, publicists and fan magazines crafted outlandish stories to create a new history for Lugosi. The cinema's Dracula was transformed into one of Hollywood's most mysterious actors. This exhaustive account of Lugosi's work in film, radio, theater, vaudeville and television provides an extensive biographical look at the actor. The enormous merchandising industry built around him is also examined.
ARMED INTERVENTION When a hotel in Barcelona comes under siege by religious fanatics, innocent guests are suddenly caught in a nightmare to be played out on the world stage. The situation is unraveling fast amid the mounting chaos of blood and fear—even as an American hostage waits for his chance to turn the tide of slaughter. Mack Bolan knows what his captors are capable of; he has stared many times into the rabid eyes of zealots and witnessed the fires of commitment to a warped cause. Judging by the seamless takedown of the premises, he realizes he's up against consummate professionals who are ready for anything and will stop at nothing. But the enemy has made a fatal mistake: They let the Executioner live.
CRITICAL IMITATION A notorious assassin is captured before receiving the ultimate hit list from a major crime family. To protect the targets, Stony Man Farm sends Mack Bolan to infiltrate the family’s compound and secure the list. This time, Bolan has an extra weapon in his arsenal: he’s a dead ringer for the assassin. His impersonation is successful...until the escaped killer arrives on the scene. Suddenly, the race is on for Bolan to reach the targets before the assassin or his mercenaries can murder them—or Bolan himself. Yet despite the stolen identity, there will be no mistaking the Executioner’s signature blaze of hellfire and justice.
Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone is recognized as one of the greatest television shows of all time. Always intelligent and thought-provoking, the show used the conventions of several genres to explore such universal qualities as violence, fear, prejudice, love, death, and individual identity. This comprehensive reference work gives a complete history of the show, from its beginning in 1959 to its final 1964 season, with critical commentaries, incisive analyses, and the most complete listing of casts and credits ever published. Biographical profiles of writers and contributors are included, followed by detailed appendices, bibliography and index.
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Three young women of entirely different backgrounds were thrown together by fate then demolished the Mexican slave trade for a decade. This fast moving, historically based novel with non-stop action and dramatic predicaments is captivating. It takes place on the prairies and in the river valleys of southwestern America of the 1820’s. The pioneer women that set out from Independence for the green valleys of the Pacific Coast had no idea they were targets for slavers bent on their abduction and subjugation into Mexican brothels, but they were. Our three heroines gave hundreds of those women another chance at life. It has conflict, violence, and death as well as tenderness, mercy, and love.
Washington is rotting from the inside out, and the Executioner knows death is the only cure As his war against the Mafia has carried him across the United States, Mack Bolan has begun to hear rumors that the mob is planning something big. They call it la Cosa di tutti Cosi—a fiendish plan to use the combined might of organized crime to infiltrate the US government and take it down from the inside. Over the last weeks, politicians, lobbyists, and civil servants have died suspicious deaths, paving the way for a new set of laws that will let the secret Mafia government step out of the shadows. When it does, the Executioner will be waiting. Bolan is no flag waver, but he has watched too many good men die for their country to let America go down without a fight. To save the States from its corrupt politicians, Bolan makes landing on the shores of the Potomac—to erect a monument in blood. Washington I.O.U. is the 13th book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the ingenuity that developed cable into today's multibillion dollar industry came from Pennsylvania. In this state, with its mountainous geography, the need for an unusual means of obtaining a television signal gave birth to the community antenna television system that was the forerunner of the cable we know today. This volume traces the history of cable television through biographical sketches of those who were instrumental in bringing this technology to rural Pennsylvania. Enumerating technical as well as financial obstacles, each chapter focuses on the life of a cable pioneer. The contributions of such men as John Walson, Bob Tarleton, George Gardner and Ralph Roberts are discussed and their relationships to each other examined. Information drawn from interviews with these men or people who knew them brings history to life. Topics include the roots of cable television, problems of early cable systems and the advent of HBO and its consequences. An appendix offers a commemorative history of the Pennsylvania Cable Network, a joint project of several men discussed herein.
The tragedy of the Indians on the American prairie during the white migration across the continent will never be forgotten or forgiven. The American government thought they had purchased the west from France and Mexico, but the real owners were the Indian Nations. Within several decades in the late 19th century, their freedom to roam the land was taken away and a way of life that had lasted for 200 generations vanished. Their freedom to live and love, and fight and die as they chose was lost, but their pride survived. I know; I knew them. This third book weaves the adventure of an American pioneer family into the larger drama of the demise of the great Indian Horse Culture of the prairie. Hang on tight to this tale of adventure, emotion, triumph and tragedy.
Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America's most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, he also reveals that U.S. policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln's election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln's approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a "Republican revolution" that ended the anomaly of the United States as a "slaveholding republic.
Wade presents a seventh memorable collection of real-life stories from the greatest golfers ever to play the game, bringing together living legends and past champions. 30 line drawings.
Guaranteed to make you the life of your weekly foursome. Don Wade will remind you of why you fell in love with the game of golf in the first place."--Matt Lauer, cohost, "Today" For more than a decade, Don Wade has entertained golf fans with many captivating collections of sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, but always true golf stories in his bestselling "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ." series. Now golf's master storyteller has selected the absolute best stories from his earlier volumes and showcased them in one deluxe edition.
This is the grand adventure of a family, forcibly separated for years, that endures hardship and heartbreak as they struggle for survival and cross the American frontier to find each other. Every page contributes to the story; there is no filler material. It‘s dripping with drama, and loaded with hair raising escapes. Hang on tight as the adventure pulls you through emotional and geographical extremes. It is the second book of a series about one American family. These stories are fast moving action packed, contain numerous near death conflicts, and traverse staggering amounts of geography. They fit perfectly into major events in history, incorporate deep emotion, have strong female characters, and have killer endings that will leave you saying, “WOW!”
A narcotics manufacturing plant financed by corrupt CIA spooks in bed with the Mafia put Mack Bolan in the middle of the Atlantic to bring down this floating factory that is inside an offshore drilling rig. But unearthly creatures turn this Bermuda Triangle mission into an eerie dance with the forces of nature.
It doesn't get more all-American than baseball, and this all-encompassing celebration of the sport covers every major player and event in the history of the Major League. The book features a tribute to 100 of the game's legends, from Babe Ruth and Joe Di Maggio to Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, and everyone in between. The development of professional baseball is discussed, including special attention to controversies, scandals and revealing statistics provided by STATS, Inc., the largest supplier of baseball facts and figures in the world. There is no better gift to present to a baseball lover than this remarkable compilation, and it is a must-have for all those who play, watch and enjoy the sport.Luke Friend is a writer who has contributed to a wide range of magazines, from Golf World to Total Film.
Cheney fans 21 in 16 innings. In 1962, Washington Senator's pitcher Tom Cheney set a major league strike-out record: twenty-one batters in a sixteen inning marathon. These events and much more are collected in a comprehensive and compact compendium, The Best Book of Baseball Facts and Stats. Information packed, this book records all the important players, teams, games and statistics, and: Profiles of more than one hundred current and all-time great players Charts the Major League franchises from their beginnings to their current standings Details every World Series since 1903 and many other key games Highlights the contributions of the best managers and how they shaped the game Celebrates the great stadiums like Fenway's Green Monster and Wrigley Field Discusses the facts behind the notorious scandals and controversies Lists comprehensive statistics for each position: single-game and single-season leaders for both the regular season and championships Lists award winners, MVPs, rookies of the year, and Hall of Fame inductees. Do you know the 1954 American League MVP? Want to read the most famous Yogi-ism? Enjoy reading the extraordinary achievements of the baseball's finest players? The Best Book of Baseball Facts and Stats is the ideal reference for baseball fans of all ages.
The fifth book in the popular "And Then Jack Said to Arnie . . ". series brings out of the locker room and onto the first tee a delightful treasury of the greatest true golf stories ever told. 20 line drawings.
Theres Nothing Like Capital Crime! Murders, Mysteries and History is an entertaining, fast-paced, and unique mix of forgotten killings, investigations, and criminal trials culled from court records and mixed with the news of long ago. Get the scoop on hundreds of real crimes and unsolved murders. Follow the clues to identify the unknown found washed up on Lake Erie shores. Work your way along sometimes-twisted paths to imprisonment or freedom. Victims, suspects, perpetrators. Judges, lawyers, witnesses, juries. Time spent in the big house, executions, and simply getting away with murder. If you love true-crime or mysteries, or enjoy history, this book is for you! Never gory, but haunting, fascinating, and perhaps brutalall at the same time. Murders, Mysteries and History reminds us that the past is never perfect.
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