The historical novel set in the years leading to World War II chronicles the lives of two men who were instrumental in providing the tactics and the crucial amphibious landing craft that made the US victorious in its Pacific island campaign.
Blue Water, Red Blood relates the story of two Americans, Holland Smith and Don Roebling, who were instrumental in winning the World War II island battles in the Pacific. A novel that features more history than fiction, the book’s roots are in the terrible Florida 1928 Okeechobee killer hurricane. Roebling developed the amphibious tractor that made Smith’s military plans a reality. The machine was developed and manufactured here in Florida and made war’s most dangerous event, frontal assault against a fortified beach, possible.
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The historical novel set in the years leading to World War II chronicles the lives of two men who were instrumental in providing the tactics and the crucial amphibious landing craft that made the US victorious in its Pacific island campaign.
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a
