Charles Whiting
Charles Whiting was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Ian Harding, Duncan Harding, K.N. Kostov, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad, and Leo Kessler.
Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a pupil at the prestigious Nunthorpe Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the British Army by lying about his age. Keen to be in on the wartime action, Whiting was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and by the age of 18 saw duty as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in the latter stages of World War II. While still a soldier, he observed conflicts between the highest-ranking British and A
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Charles B. MacDonald
Charles B. MacDonald was a former Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army. He wrote several of the Army's official histories of World War II.
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After graduating from Presbyterian College, MacDonald was commissioned as a US Army officer through the Army ROTC and deployed to Europe. By September 1944, as a 21 year old Captain , he commanded a rifle company in the 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. MacDonald received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
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His latest novel, Dead End Close, is published by The Odyssey Press on the Kindle Store.
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He has twice been nominated for the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award and is an active member of the Military Writers Society of America.
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During World War I, he served with the Royal Artillery in France and Flanders. During World War II, he served with Montgomery in the Western Desert, and in Italy. He wrote several war books including "Cockleshell Heroes," "Escape of the Amethyst," "Alamein," "The Greatest Raid of All," and "Springboard to Victory." He was a passionate gardener and has also written books on gardening including the much acclaimed "The Small Garden" and "Roses for the Small Garden." -
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The Peterborough Examiner's lead editorial of 14 January 2009 says this: "Rohmer, one of Canada's most colourful figures of the past half-century, was a World War II fighter pilot, later a major-general in the armed forces reserve, a high-profile lawyer and a successful novelist and biographer." -
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Born in Rockdale in 1910, Perry attended several colleges, but never graduated. Instead, he moved back to his hometown and pushed through the Great Depression with a small inheritance and a determination to write about the rural and small-town life around him. He married the love of his life, Claire Hodges, on the 20th of February 1933 in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas. They would remain devoted to each other until his death, and had no children.
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He attended schools at Coventry and Leamington. From his earliest years all his interests centred on aeroplanes and engines.
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Christopher C. Tubbs
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I am descendent of a long line of Dorset clay miners and have chased my family tree back to the 16th century in the Isle of Purbeck. I have been a public speaker at conferences for most of my career in the Aerospace and Automotive industries and was one of the founders of a successful games company back in the 1990’s.
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When I stopped teaching I set up my own consultancy firm and worked as an adviser in schools and colleges in the North East of England. The new Conservative Government ended that avenue of work and in 2010 I found that I had time on my hands; having started work at the age of 15 I found the lack of work not to my liking and used the time to research the Roman invasion of Britain and begin to create a novel. The result was The Sword of Ca -
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He also filmed, scripted and narrated the documentary, Rock Queen with Catherine Destivelle, the French climbing superstar, which won him an Emmy Award for outstanding electronic camerawork.
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Michael Gannon
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Michael Gannon was a University of Florida history professor who was also a recognized expert on Florida history, particularly from its Spanish colonial founding through the Civil War. He spent most of his career in Florida.
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Michael Asher was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1953, and attended Stamford School. At 18 he enlisted in the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, and saw active service in Northern Ireland during The Troubles there in the 1970s.
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Mandy Smith
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Charles Addison
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He served numerous regimental appointments until selected to command the 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (10 PARA). He attended the German Staff College (Fuhrungsakademie) spending a further two years with the Bundeswehr as an infantry, airborne and arctic warfare instructor. He speaks fluent German and has extensive experience with NATO, multinational operations and all aspects of operations and training.
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Roy Conyers Nesbit
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John B. Gordon
John B. Gordon was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War. He was born in Upson County, Georgia, on his father's plantation, and attended the University of Georgia, proving himself a distinguished student. He passed the bar examination and practiced law until the outbreak of the war, at which point he was elected captain of a company of mountaineers. He quickly rose to brigadier general, and distinguished himself during a series of campaigns. Badly wounded at the Battle of Antietam, he spend months recovering and rejoined the war as a brigade commander under Jubal A. Early. Through the latter parts of the war, he began to rise to even more dramatic prominence, serving a crucial role as more and more of Lee's senior commanders were
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Edward Young
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ALSO From the back cover of the 1954 Penguin edition of “One of Our Submarines”:
Edward Young was born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1913. He was educated at Highgate and at 18 took a job as office boy in a publishing firm, where he gradually became interested in printing and design. When Penguin Books started in 1935 he was production manager, he designed the cover, and drew the Penguin device. In April 1940 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (R.N.V.R.), and four months later entered the submarine service, and was the first R.N.V.R. officer to command an operational submarine. After the War he joined Rupert Hart-Davis, who was then about to start -
Stephen Becker
Stephen Becker (1927–1999) was an American author, translator, and teacher whose published works include eleven novels and the English translations of many works, including Elie Wiesel’s The Town Behind the Wall and The Forgotten and André Malraux’s The Conquerors.
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He was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1927, and after serving in World War II, he graduated from Harvard University and studied in Peking and Paris, where he was friends with the novelist Richard Wright and learned French in part by reading detective novels. The recipient of Paul Harris and Guggenheim Fellowships and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Becker taught at numerous schools throughout the United States, including the University of Iowa, Bennington Col -
Lyle Garford
Lyle Garford is the author of The Evan Ross Series (historical fiction), The Owen Spence Series (historical fiction), The Stick Bug Stories (children’s fantasy), and two standalone works of fiction entitled The Christmas Cafe and The Space Farmer. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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Richard Herley
I was born in England in 1950 and educated at Watford Boys’ Grammar School and Sussex University, where my interest in natural history led me to read biology; but from my earliest years English had been my “best” subject, and shortly before my final exams I decided to try to become a professional writer. The job of the artist – in whichever medium he or she works – is an important one, since, conscientiously practised, it helps us to make sense of ourselves and the world.
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Authorship is not an easy path to follow. I continue to work at the craft and marvel at its subtlety. I prefer a conventional storytelling framework. This offers the greatest potential for the writer: a reader who wants to know “what happens next” is the most receptive and -
Ken Wharton
Ken Wharton is a former British soldier who served in the Royal Green Jackets regiment. Currently, he writes non-fiction books on the violent religious/political conflict in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles.
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Stuart Minor was born and raised in the rural county of Shropshire. Before becoming a professional writer he worked in a number of different trades and countries, seeing the world and doing everything from labouring to management. He has a degree in history and has been writing full-time since 2014 when he published his first novel: The Call of War. Since then he has seen considerable success, his series of sixteen books set in the First World War receiving high acclaim.
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Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times.
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Eva Neisser Echenberg
Born in Lima, educated in the USA, I have lived in Canada for most of my adult life.
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A global citizen, both my writing and my personal life has been dedicated to acceptance of the "Other". As an author of eight Spanish cultural workbooks, I have promoted diversity and cultural literacy in the Spanish language classroom. Written in response to the grammar based language teaching that was standard practice in my profession, I developed interdisciplinary units based on content which are now the norm in the field.
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William Avery Bishop
Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace in World War I.
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Billy Bishop was Canada's top fighter ace of the First World War, credited with shooting down 72 German aircraft in aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Bishop was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and he served during the war as Director of the Royal Canadian Air Force and placed in charge of recruitment.
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Raymond Gantter
A graduate of Syracuse University who had played piano with jazz bands from the age of fourteen, Raymond Gantter was the program manager of the major radio station in Syracuse when he turned down his third draft deferment and entered the army. At thirty years of age, nearly six feet tall and 130 pounds, he made an unlikely infantryman, but in six months, he went from private to acting squad leader to acting buck sergeant before being awarded the Silver Star and a battlefield commission. He began to write the journal that became ROLL ME OVER in September 1944 and finished the manuscript in 1949. He died in 1985, survived by his wife and two children. His manuscript was published by Ballantine Books in 1997.
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Michael Rose
Michael Rose was raised on a small family dairy farm in Upstate New York. He retired after serving in executive positions for several global multinational enterprises. He has been a non-executive director for three public companies headquartered in the US. He lives and writes in San Francisco.
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David Mason
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George Forty
George Forty was a British Army officer who was the chief of staff at the gunnery school at the Royal Armoured Corps. He was later a director of the Tank Museum at Bovington.
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J.W. Phillips
Currently working on my new novel — Wolves of the Road.
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Historical fiction, based on real events. Set in 1360, during the uneasy lull of the Treaty of Brétigny. War-weary, plague-ridden Europe is crawling with restless soldiers — and one man is gathering them: John Hawkwood.
One plague-hardened exile has a decision to make — stop the wolves, or run with them. -
Ian Gleed
Ian Richard Gleed had his first flight at Hatfield (a joyride with the London Aeroplane Club) while still at school. He later became a member of the London Aeroplane Club (thought to have joined in April 1935). He gained his licence on 12 July 1935 (No.12976) at Hatfield. However, one biographer states he qualified on 31 July 1936 (No. 8003) – after he joined the RAF in March 1936 (possibly this refers to a B-licence).
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He was given the nickname 'Widge' – short for 'Wizard Midget', apparently due to his tendency to call things 'Wizard' (like people today describe things as 'Wicked'), and his short stature (he was 5 feet 6 inches / 1.65m). He mentions his RAF nickname in his part-fiction, part-autobiographical book but claimed not to know how -
Don Bendell
-Speaker and best-selling author of 30 books with over 3 million copies in print plus a successful feature film
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- Don just co-wrote a brand new book available on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Select, soon available in print on Amazon (September, 2019). A self-help motivational memoir, it is entitled "Cowboy the F Up! How to be a Real Man in Today's World."
-International Karate & Kickboxing Hall of Fame: 1995 inductee, Grandmaster Instructor in 5 martial arts
- US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer, Vietnam disabled vet
- Master of Science, Business - Leadership, Grand Canyon University, 2011
Bachelor of Science, Business, Colorado Christian University, 1997
- owns the Strongheart Ranch, Florence, Colorado
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Michael J. Daniels
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Michael J. Daniels (2 spaces): GRs author of Becoming Mr. Right
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William Watson
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William Watson was a Scot who lived and worked in the South prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Although he opposed secession, he served with the Confederate army until badly wounded at the battle of Corinth and discharged, whereupon he bought a small ship and took up blockade running in the Gulf of Mexico, making three successful passages. By the time he started much of this activity had moved to Havana, Cuba, which had attracted a variety of characters, some heroic but most shady. Watson describes his many problems in the business in a lively, modern style.
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Christopher Lee Buckner
Christopher Lee Buckner is a highly regarded novelist and game designer renowned for his exceptional ability to craft immersive and captivating universes. He has received widespread acclaim for his vivid portrayal of resilient female protagonists and formidable antagonists. With a primary focus on Roman historical fiction, as well as expertise in the realms of history, science fiction, and fantasy, Christopher has released a diverse range of literary works. Some of his notable publications include "Wolves of Rome," the acclaimed "Rome Unbound" series, "Tyrannus: Immortal of Rome," and the enthralling "Cepheus Protocol." Over the course of the last 17 years, Christopher has contributed his exceptional talents as a writer and game designer to
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Susan Dunn
Susan Dunn is Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at Williams College and Senior Scholar and the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Sister Revolutions
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Academic Degrees
* A. B. cum laude, Smith College, 1966. Phi Beta Kappa.
* Ph.D. Harvard University, 1973
Professional Experience
* Williams College, Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Professor in the Arts and Humanities, 1973 to present
* Wellesley College, Instructor, 1971-1973
* Harvard University, Extension Division, Instructor, 1970-1973
* Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, 1967-1970