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Mon, Jul 20, 2009

If "blogging" means posting effusions on politics, the arts, my Weltanschauung, or what I had for breakfast, then this isn't a blog. But I'll say a bit about my books:

Storm Approaching: The first (and, unless it sells, perhaps the last) volume in the Mercenaries series, about which you can find much information here and at Amazon.com. Three more volumes are written and ready to go.

And Gladly Teach:  A satirical look at life at a fictional boarding school: funny, usually light-hearted, occasionally serious, and more realistic than you might wish. Ideal reading on long trips, at the beach, or at dull faculty meetings (as long as you sit way in the back so the Headmaster can't see you). 175 pp. Pub. 2001.

Miscellanea: A short (61-page) gaiimaufry of mostly humorous essays (8) and poems (2) on various subjects, including fads in modern education, Napoleonic military history, the Lord of the Rings and first three Star Wars movies, and even Osama bin Laden. Published by Lulu.com

The United States Constabulary 1946-1952. Not funny (at least not intentionally), not satirical, not publishable except by me, this 190-page tome contains my dissertation (115 pp.) and three grad-school seminar papers: The Blockade of Brest, 1803-1805 (a detailed study of the dullest successful military operation in history); Struggle for the North: Latvia in 1919 (I'll bet you don't know much about that); and German Intelligence on the Eastern Front: An Assessment (a study of how little the vaunted Reinhard Gehlen and his Foreign Armies East department really knew about what the Red Army was up to in three famous battles (Stalingrad, Kursk, and the Soviet summer offensive of 1944). This stuff is pretty good history, I think, but perhaps the main importance of blowing the dust off them, retyping them, and seeing them into print was to remind me that, had my teaching career been in colleges instead of prep schools, I would have had to spend my whole life writing stuff like this. My deepest thanks to all those institutions of higher learning that ignored my resume in the 1980s! This is probably the only doctoral dissertation that contains a smiley-face in a footnote, and is available at Lulu.com

 

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