This book is about the author's testimony to his diverse experiences both in growing to manhood and then becoming a Military Intelligence Officer and analyzing Soviet/Russian military and foreign policy.
Between Darkness and Light poeticizes struggles for good and evil, shining a light in dark places and then reflecting the light of goodness. The range of poems is from darkly serious, "Coal Eyes," to light and entertaining, "How to Hit upon a Girl. The poems are from the heart of a soldier, statesman, singer, and scholar. The poems cover four decades of the author's life and are his complete collection.
American Bible Society President and CEO Roy Peterson shares how God has faithfully walked by his side through every circumstance—from the depths of a Mexican prison to the front lines of Christian ministry.
Guardian Angel is a kaleidoscope of vivid poetic imagery and begins with "To all the angels I have known and some I never knew a thousand pardons for the stress I must have put you through." Guardian Angels protect the good from bad consequences. LTC Roy Peterson is the embodiment of the renaissance soldier, statesman, and literary gentleman and harkens back to the likes of Poe and Longfellow, but with the romantic urges of Hemingway and Lord Byron.
American Heritage contains a comprehensive collection of the best poetry previously published in three volumes, Beyond Darkness and Light, Guardian Angel and American Heartland Poetry. Roy Peterson is the quintessential poetry and prose author hearkening back to the great poets in the Pantheon that is the American Heritage of Poetry. Compare his works to Wordsworth, Longfellow, Poe, and Frost for subject variety, style variations, and readable yet complex thought integration making him the poet of and for everyone.
Fight of the Phoenix is a historical personal account of duties as an Advisor in the Delta of Vietnam in 1972. The author counters claims of other Advisors and Academics and sets the record straight on the vicious nature of the Communist insurgency that killed their own people and the spectacular success of the Phoenix Program throughout the country and especially in the Delta Region MR-4 in targeting and neutralizing the enemy Viet Cong insurgents.
American Heartland flows from the Midwestern childhood of the author who learned the values of loyalty, bravery, and honesty with love for God and country. LTC Peterson's poetry is a unique portrayal of those values, as a substantive down to earth word painting, but with a transcending perspective, yet substantive down to earth painting with words everyone can unequalled by modern poets. His down to earth prose combined with his acumen, wit, and wisdom is comparable to Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac. Like Longfellow he portrays a nostalgic past and like Poe, Roy's mystic moments in Fall Fantasy are seductive. Two sections of humor, however, set him apart as a poet for the ages.
Russian Romance continues the Dane Nelson series from the Book Iron Ikon and describes the difficulties and obstacles of opening the first IBM Office in Vladivostok, Russia. The Romance part was due to a divorce suffered by Dane and subsequent interest of Russian women in anyone from the forbidden United States.
LTC (US Army, Retired) Roy Peterson served as an Assistant Army Attaché inMoscow during the peak of the Cold War Years from 1983-1985. American Attaché in the Moscow Maelstrom is a carefully crafted work that opens the window on what it was like to serve American interests in that intense environment. This book is more than reminiscences. As a professional intelligence officer, the author provides instruction on how to conduct overt intelligence collection, insight into the craft of human intelligence collection, historical perspectives, and how act as an attaché. Although this is a nonfiction book, parts of it read like a novel. Roy Peterson is presently (2005) a faculty member of the University of Phoenix, President of TriCrown International LLC, and Senior Executive Vice President of Executive Information Systems and Investment Group. Roy Peterson served inVladivostok, Russia from 1993-94, as the first U.S. Foreign Commercial Officer in the Russian Far East for the US Department of Commerce, as a Visa Issuing Officer for the Department of State, and as the first Russian Far East Regional Manager for IBM. Roy is a recognized consultant and educator on international trade, marketing, and global business strategies.
Men and Divorce is a Practical Guide for the more than one million men annually who face the prospect of a divorce, who may be contemplating the need for a divorce, or who have been served papers for one. Women file 66% of the time and men must be prepared to find the right attorney, make the correct decisions, and fight for what is theirs by right. Presumptions of the state laws and courts favor women. This book seeks to rectify that with advice from my experience and those of other men who have suffered from the inequities and vagaries of state laws, presumptions, and uninformed advisors. Men have rights too and state laws along with the federal law promulgated by Congress in 1982 of allowing states to treat military pensions as property and assign them for life must be changed. I will advise on how to identify clues a divorce may be imminent and how to avoid the more than 20 mistakes men commonly make. The book is not anti-women, but pro-men. The author takes the reader through understanding the landscape facing them, what women consider, clues for men they may be headed for divorce, the mistakes men make, deciding whether divorce is the best solution, how to negotiate for the best outcome, what quality of life may be considered after divorce, and presents his own divorces as case studies. Definitions used in divorce documents, laws and recommended changes to be made to them, and military men in divorces including an application of the Principles of War make Men and Divorce the most complete and comprehensive book on the subject. Humor used throughout the book also make it one of the most readable and literate books on the market.
Enforcer is for espionage. Dane Nelson is for diplomat. Are the two compatible? A US Foreign Commerical Officer assigned to a new position in the remote Russian Far East must face immense obstacles and challenges including the KGB reformed into the Ministry of Security, the internal security apparatus, the MVD, a Mafia laden and dangerous Russian Far East 6,000 miles from Moscow and on the Pacific Rim 40 miles north of North Korea. All this while assisting American companies to export to Russia.
This book is about the author's testimony to his diverse experiences both in growing to manhood and then becoming a Military Intelligence Officer and analyzing Soviet/Russian military and foreign policy.
Great poetry assails the senses and full range of human emotion. Eternal Spring contains ten sections with poetry to make everyone laugh as in Happy World and Fun for All (Parts I and II); consider Lessons of Life (Part III); relate to Romantic Refrains and Live and Love (Parts IV and V); understand why the author does not write in blank verse (Part VI); become spellbound with the Preternatural (Part VII), realize the effects of old age in Suddenly Winter (Section VIII); react to a range of issues in What Else (Part IX); and reflect on memories, including Chocolate Cherry Christmas and Leroy the Lucky Leprechaun in Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas (Part X). Along the way the reader will become engrossed and enthralled by one of the great rhyme and meter poets of the early 21st Century who compares to Poe, Frost, Longfellow, and Kilmer. His romantic love poems, Tonight I Sail the Dreamy Sea and I Believe in Miracles 'Cause I Believe in You, are in the tradition of Byron, Keats, and Shelley. In My Epitaph the ending will moisten the eyes of the discerning.Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards comment on his previous book American Heritage Poetry Collection:“American Heritage… represents a major achievement for Roy E. Peterson as he gathers a lifetime of poetry into this generous volume.....he's done his literary output justice.....”Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards comment on his previous book American Heritage Poetry Collection: “American Heritage… represents a major achievement for…Roy E. Peterson as he gathers a lifetime of poetry into this generous volume.....he's done his literary output justice.....”
TV NEWS CORP PROSECUTION: of Scott Peterson, A VIEWER'S VIEW, presents an American's nightmare. It is a time capsule of what one person has ingested from the TV news corps after a person is arrested, jailed, gagged, and kept there for over a year before trial; unable to respond. Chapter Two, where the names of TV hosts, experts, prosecution and defense attorneys, are deleted and placed into their own sections is definitive of the attitude created by public prosecution. Chapter Three, The Court Document List, is replete with examples of parties and non-parties to this criminal case, desire for secrecy and publicity, and which of the issues divide that desire. Four hundred documents are listed, with comment in plain language.
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