Pegasus Bridge: And the People Who Saved It
It was 1944 in Benouville, a little village in France. German soldiers had occupied it for four years. Every day, they infiltrated the humble little town for food, drinks, and […]
The Doolittle Raiders: the Final Chapter
Picture this. It is early 1942. Memories of a vicious attack in Pearl Harbor burn hot in your mind. They especially trouble you, because you are a young man in […]
Dan Wescott – On Another Battlefield
The sun burned hot in the isolated countryside of Belgium. So hot…. and the horizon lay vast and unbroken. On either side of the car, we only saw open farm lands, and […]
Poetry Break – “Let Me Tell You How I Died” – Part I Finale – An Old Soldier
Hello everyone! As promised, here is the final segment of Part I of my Poem epic – the conclusion to the WWII part of the series (which is brought to […]
Poetry Break – “Let Me Tell You How I Died” – The Bomb
When I first began research for my historical fiction novel about World War II, I wanted to include a scene that dealt with the bombs. I collected many materials – […]
Hurtgen Forest – A Hike Through the Green Hell
If you ask me, the whole thing started off on the wrong foot. We had intended to beat the heat with an early start, but typical travel snares in a […]
Poetry Break – “Let Me Tell You How I Died” – Stalingrad
As promised, here is another portion of the 21-segment poem epic I wrote recently. The segments are divided into three parts, and this is the second segment of Part I. […]
Poetry Break – “Let Me Tell You How I Died” – The Blitz
An Intro When I was in high school, my brain was a fountain of poetry. I wrote poems about everything. Things that bothered me, events in the news, things that […]
