Archive for August 9th, 2014

Islamic State: America Acts

Saturday, August 9th, 2014

President Obama had no choice. The US has in place the military assets to prevent genocide among Yazidis and Christians in flight without food or shelter and pursued by columns of Islamic State militia. Such is the chaos in the region which the neo-con Bush administration intended to be a beacon of democracy, America finds itself supporting a grouping which includes Russia, Iran and Syria all of whom are engaged directly or indirectly in fighting the same extremist adversary. There is a very real risk that, unless a coordinated alliance with a clear vision and a firm plan is established, the shaky government structures struggling against an anti-government ideology, will implode. If that happens the whole region will explode.

Think about that over the weekend.

Book Promo: Hitler’s First Lady

Saturday, August 9th, 2014

To celebrate the launch of the new compact edition, with a striking new cover, of Hitler’s First Lady in denser type and therefore 100 pages shorter, the paperback will be on  offer  for a short period at the special price of £5.99, or currency equivalent, worldwide from Amazon.  The new Kindle  of this edition will be on sale at £0.77p.  Get it now!

Customer Review   ” I really enjoyed this book – fascinating plot that had me gripped. At centre of the story is an Anglo-German family whose loyalties are torn during the second world war. The woman has an affair with Hitler – seems rather far-fetched but the book draws you in and I couldn’t put it down!”

Historical drama spanning more than one hundred years, from its origins at the beginning of the twentieth century to continuing repercussions into the twenty-first. Here is an extract:

It is easy to speculate on the variety of dramas which could be expected to ensue when a twenty four year old bride of three months is confronted by such a scene, but this was no ordinary bride. This was a girl born in a hazardous environment in a frontier country on the edge of modern civilisation, who had survived tropical fever, a native armed uprising and the sting of a scorpion, later to be driven from her mother’s country by irrational prejudice, to make a new life in the New World, en route to which she had been swept by a storm wave from one end of a liner to the other. She had at last arrived in the country of her ancestors to find it in chaos and political dysfunction, where she had identified the men who could save it and had become part of their mission. This was undeniably a matrimonial crisis on an unusual scale. But Lise was a Bauer and in a crisis the Bauers held their nerve. As silently as she had come she crept back to her bed.

 

 

 

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