¿Quien es, Pete? As far as Old West History goes, no other person or story had a more profound impact on me as a writer than Billy the Kid. When I was fifteen years old, my parents took me on a three-week summer RV trip to New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. While in New…
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Required Reading for Upcoming Spicy Festivities
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Know Your History: John Calhoun, America’s Greatest Political Thinker Since the Founders
America’s Greatest Political Thinker Since the Founders “Four of Calhoun’s ideas are especially relevant today. The first is that patriotism doesn’t spring from high ideals, but from citizens and the state having a mutual stake in each other’s success. Calhoun’s second main argument is that America’s racially discriminatory policies, including slavery, unify white citizens,…
Aergeweorc
Aergeweorc ‘The period of history which we now call ‘Anglo-Saxon’ lasted from about the mid-fifth century to the end of the eleventh, after the Norman conquest. Most surviving Anglo Saxon manuscripts date from the latter part of that period and the majority of them are in Latin, but England was unique in Early Medieval…
In Memoriam: Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins, author of ‘The Eagle Has Landed,’ dead at 92 I was sad to hear of Jack’s passing. His books were a big inspiration to me growing up, especially his Liam Devlin series. Tonight I will re-read The Eagle has Landed and watch the excellent movie with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall In…
Rooted in the Soil
Rooted in the Soil “Which is why the royal personage who was entombed in Plas Gogerddan in Ceredigion in Wales is so important because just like the ship burial of his ‘significant other’ overlooking the River Deben near Woodbridge in Suffolk, he, like his ancestors, are rooted in the soil of these islands and are…
The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender
You can download the above manual at John Spencer’s Website. Highly recommend you bookmark this site as well, LOTS of good stuff there! I also Highly Recommend you read all of John Spencer’s Urban Warfare Case Studies over at Modern War Institute Via WRSA: You will see this material again. The only real question…
Review – Mine Were of Trouble, by Peter Kemp
Highly Recommend all of Kemp’s novels. Mystery Grove Publishing is a Great Resource for these types of Books.
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Literary Corner: The Great American World War II Novelists
The Great American World War II Novelists I remember reading James Jones The Thin Red Line in High School and being blown away by the dense, layered prose. It took me somewhere around three weeks to get through it because I would re-read some chapters twice. Since then I read Jones’ WW2 trilogy to…