Jon C. Gabriel
Jon C. Gabriel is a former U.S. Navy submarine nuclear reactor operator, and is now a full-time writer and columnist. He is a regular contributor to Discourse Magazine and the Arizona Republic, and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, and National Review. Jon graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University's top-rated Cronkite School of Journalism.
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John Rhodes
John Rhodes is the award winning author of the Breaking Point series set in the Battle of Britain, and of the Thomas Ford ‘cozy’ detective series. Rhodes graduated from Cambridge University where he studied history. His focus on World War II stems from his earliest memories—he was born while his father was serving at an RAF Fighter Command airfield, and he grew up in London, where, he says, the shells of bombed-out buildings ‘served as our adventure playgrounds.’
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Richard Tregaskis
Richard Tregaskis was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 28, 1916, and educated at the Pingrie Day School for Boys, Elizabeth, New Jersey, at Peddie School, Hightstonsic, New Jersey, and at Harvard University. Prior to World War II he worked as a journalist for the Boston Herald newspaper.
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Shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Tregaskis volunteered as a combat correspondent representing the International News Service. (In fact, Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on location at Guadalcanal.)
Assigned to cover the war in the Pacific, Tregaskis spent part of August and most of September, 1942 reporting on Marines on Guadalcanal, a pivotal campaign in the war against Japan. He subsequently covered the European Theater of Op -
T. Martin Bennett
After attending Westmont College in Santa Barbara, T. Martin Bennett served as vice president of a nonprofit company with Keith Green, a leading recording artist, public speaker, and writer. He later co-founded a manufacturing company that grew to over 100 employees, $20M a year in sales, and won the national Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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In 2005, Bennett stumbled across rare information about Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Tennessee-based author, screenwriter, and entrepreneur says, “I’d never heard a single word about Fuchida, other than that he was a villain.” But as he started researching Fuchida’s life, Bennett knew he had to tell this incredible story. He said, -
P.T. Deutermann
P. T. Deutermann is a retired Navy captain and has served in the joint Chiefs of Staff as an arms control specialist. He is the author of eighteen novels, and lives in North Carolina. His World War II adventure novel Pacific Glory won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, administered by the American Library Association; his other World War II novels are Ghosts of Bungo Suido and Sentinels of Fire. His most recent novel is Cold Frame, a contemporary thriller set in Washington, D.C.
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Al W. Moe
Al W Moe is an American author and Mob-Casino Historian born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California.
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Moe was intrigued by gambling probability and statistics and attended the University of Nevada, Reno, before graduating from UOP.
His first articles appeared in Gambling Times - Poker Player and were followed by regular columns in "Casino and Gaming Chips" before the publication of "Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling."
He has worked for casino groups in Washington, Nevada, and Arizona and plays poker regularly when not constrained by writing deadlines.
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Andrew Dubbins
Andrew Dubbins is an award winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Magazine, Alta, Slate, and other publications. He is the author of Into Enemy Waters, the story of a WWII frogman and the demolition divers who became the Navy SEALs. He was awarded “Journalist of the Year” in 2021 by the Los Angeles Press Club and has been featured among Longform.org’s “Best Articles” and The Daily Beast’s “Best Reads.” Several of his narrative non-fiction articles have been optioned for film and TV. He studied English and Government at Georgetown University and lives in Los Angeles.
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George Sessions Perry
Virtually unknown today, Perry was one of Texas’ most celebrated authors in the 1940s and 50s.
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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.
Publication in the Saturday Evening Post came in 1937, then a book deal. In 1941 came his masterwork, “Hold Autumn in Your Hand” — one of America’s most celebrated agrarian novels oft compared to Steinbeck -
Gerold Frank
Gerold Frank was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books,[citation needed] however, are The Boston Strangler (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and An American Death (1972), about the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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Kalee Thompson
Kalee Thompson is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in a range of publications including Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Inc., Runner's World, and The Hollywood Reporter. She is the author of Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History (HarperCollins, 2010), and the co-author of The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Kalee currently works as a senior editor at the product-review site Wirecutter, a New York Times company. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Dan Koeppel, and their two young boys.
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Philip K. Allan
I am from the UK where I live with my wife and daughters. My writing combines my passion for ships and the sea, with intelligent writing and pacey plots.
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Frank A. Mason
Frank A. Mason is the pen name for author Robert (Bob) F. Amason, Ph.D.
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Professor at Large at Northern Illinois University (Semi-Retired). He earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and University of Florida. A retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, Bob Amason was a college professor for 25 years. As an officer in the USAF, Bob flew B-52s during the Cold War, was a flying training instructor, and directed high-level staff organizations over 22 years of his early adult life.
He is a life member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He now lives in Florida with his wife, who is also university professor and author
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Tony Rea
Tony Rea is a writer and people's historian who lives in Devon, England and is currently working with Sapere Books on a series of World War 2 action novels featuring RAF pilot Gus 'Bouncer' Beaumont. He is an author of history, historical fiction and short stories.
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Following a successful series of GSCE history books, Tony wrote SOUTH DEVON IN THE GREAT WAR (Pen and Sword, 2016) which was followed in 2019 by a stage play, THE ARMISTICE, about the Great War and how it impacted Ivybridge and the South Hams. His first novel, RED SKY OVER DARTMOOR (2017) and its sequel, THE ROAD TO ENNISKEAN (2023) feature Marc Bergeron and Doncha Ryan and are set in 1918-22.
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Craig DiLouie
Craig DiLouie is an author of popular thriller, apocalyptic/horror, and sci-fi/fantasy fiction.
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In hundreds of reviews, Craig’s novels have been praised for their strong characters, action, and gritty realism. Each book promises an exciting experience with people you’ll care about in a world that feels real.
These works have been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA. -
Richard Townshend Bickers
Richard Leslie Townshend Bickers has written more books about the RAF and its predecessor, the RFC, than any other author past or present - some under a pseudonym. Being multilingual, he does his own research in foreign archives and by interviews and correspondence. His short stories and newspaper articles were first published and broadcast while he was a serving RAF officer. By the time he left the RAF his first four novels had appeared. His biography of his friend "Ginger" Lacey, the top-scoring pilot in the Battle of Britain, was published to acclaim in 1962.Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. In England he operated with Fighter and Coastal Commands; in North
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Justin Fox
Fox is a novelist, travel writer and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is the former editor of Getaway travel magazine. He was a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University after which he was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he taught part time for 20 years. His articles and photographs have appeared internationally in a number of publications and on a wide range of topics, while his short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. He has written scripts and directed award-winning documentaries and is a two-time Mondi journalism award winner (1999 and 2004). Recent books include The Marginal Safari (Umuzi), The Impossible Five (Tafelberg), Beat Ro
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David Healey
David Healey made his publishing debut with SHARPSHOOTER, a what-if historical thriller about an attempt to assassinate Union General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, published by an imprint of Penguin Putnam. That novel was the result of years of research into the Civil War that included time as a reenactor at Gettysburg and other battlefields.
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In its review, the Civil War News wrote: “SHARPSHOOTER has the feel of a techno-thriller, the kind offered by Tom Clancy or Dean Koontz ... SHARPSHOOTER moves quickly and is filled with all manner of intrigue."
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William L. Shirer
William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II.
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Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but his greatest achievement was his 1960 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published by Simon & Schuster. This book of well over 1000 pages is still in print, and is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical information from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin. Later, in 1969, his work The Collapse of the Third Republic drew -
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Noel B. Gerson
Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking.
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Aside from "Samuel Edwards", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan. -
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Justin Fox
Fox is a novelist, travel writer and photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is the former editor of Getaway travel magazine. He was a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University after which he was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he taught part time for 20 years. His articles and photographs have appeared internationally in a number of publications and on a wide range of topics, while his short stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. He has written scripts and directed award-winning documentaries and is a two-time Mondi journalism award winner (1999 and 2004). Recent books include The Marginal Safari (Umuzi), The Impossible Five (Tafelberg), Beat Ro
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Gavin Mortimer
For a detailed biography, to learn more about all the books I have written and to discover my forthcoming projects, please visit my website at the above link.
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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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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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Elaine Hume Peake
Elaine Hume Peake was born on Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland, the site of the first United States Army Bomb Disposal testing and training base. Here her father, Captain Edward Hume learned the fundamentals of BD and became part of the first American army ordnance squads of World War II, setting the stage for the origins of the historical drama series, “The Kaboom Boys”.
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Elaine studied journalism/mass communications at Towson State University leading her to a multi-year career in television news. She received multiple journalism awards including Emmys and the George Foster Peabody Award for her 9/11 coverage.
In 2019, Elaine completed “The Kaboom Boys” as a feature-length screenplay when, during the pandemic via LinkedIn, she wa