Unsinkable Sailors: The fall and rise of the crews of the USS Frank E. Evans, is a non-fiction book to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the June 3, 1969 sinking of the USS Frank E. Evans, written by Lakewood, Colorado author Paul Sherbo. Using official documents and survivor interviews the author has compiled in book form the first comprehensive American version of the tragic 1969 collision at sea in which the USS Frank E. Evans (DD-745), a United States Navy destroyer, was struck by the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. The author describes in detail the actions leading up to, during and after the catastrophic incident as told by survivors and witnesses from both ships involved. Operating as part of a combined force with the Royal Australian Navy and other allied naval ships, the Evans executed a starboard turn into the path of Melbourne at 0315 a.m. on June 3, 1969 and was cut in half by the heavier and larger war ship. Evans' broken off bow section sank almost immediately taking 73 unfortunate crewmembers with it. Only one body was recovered in the aftermath of the collision, bringing the total lost to 74. Out of the 273 crewmembers on board, 199 survived. Five crewmembers assigned to the Evans were not aboard at the time of the collision. The stern section, although severely damaged, remained afloat. Throughout the book, the courage and heroic spirit of both ships' crews add a genuine admiration for their bravery despite their confusion in the sudden turn of events.

Unsinkable Sailors

History

Sherbo, Paul

Military

Patriot Media, Incorporated

Pearl Harbor Honor Flight, The Last Goodbye, a book created to honor military veterans of the Greatest Generation for their courage and personal sacrifice during the attack on United States military forces at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. Billie and Robert Nicholson have assembled a photographic journey of six Honor Flight veterans from Pensacola, Florida during the week long 70th year commemoration of the attack, the last and final organized annual reunion of Pearl Harbor survivors. One veteran spoke of his desire to return to Pearl Harbor, "... to say one last goodbye to my friends and comrades who died that day and throughout the war."

Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye

Nicholson, Robert

Nicholson, Billie

DIE LISTE: Revenge on the Black Sun is an action/adventure novel. Amos Mead, WWII OSS agent, is building a life after the war when an old comrade-in-arms shows up and pulls him into a secret project of the CIA. Mead finds himself once again in a dangerous game of international intrigue. During the war he sought enemy agents. Now he faces a serial assassin of Nazi war criminals brought to the United States by the government in an experiment gone wrong. Mead begins an international chase, with friends who may be foes, while back home his psychologist wife, Brigit, provides insights about clues, and her growing suspicions. It ends with an explosive twist in a faraway lair of Nazi history.

Die Liste: Revenge on the Black Sun

GAUTHIER, TOM

Literature & Fiction

A highly prized intelligence find rests on the bottom of Skagerrak Strait: a Soviet Golf II class submarine equipped with three nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. All that is needed is to find this needle in the haystack, lift a thirty-five hundred ton vessel from the ocean bottom unnoticed and secure it in a surface ship designed by the CIA for this purpose.  A near impossible task, nonetheless a band of U.S. submariners agree to take it on. 

Skagerrak (Submarine Classics by D.M. Ulmer)

Ulmer, D.M.

Genre Fiction

When young Claire’s family brought home a donkey from a rural Michigan county fair in 1920, several miraculous events caused them to believe the donkey was a gift from God. Dan Mertze, a 48-year-old newspaper reporter, vainly tries to overcome a despairing world view that has gradually permeated his writing. He reluctantly accepts an assignment to interview 99-year-old Claire Henning, relating her childhood religious experiences involving a donkey. After several interviews with Claire, subtle changes occur in Dan’s life as he learns not all troubles are bad and some are blessings.

The Donkey

Religion & Spirituality

Stuligross, Paul

Christian Books & Bibles

A Cowboy Goes to War is a fascinating accounting of history spanning into three centuries as told from an often humorous perspective by 89-year-old Ralph McDougal. Raised on a rural ranch in Southwestern New Mexico during the 1930s, Ralph shares tales of family outlaws, Pancho Villa, growing up as a cowboy, riding trails and building dams as a teenager, and later of going off to war. Upon entering into World War II by enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps, McDougal was trained as a bombardier/navigator for the B-26 bomber, flying missions over Germany. Among the World War II planes Ralph flew are the B-26 Martin Marauder—the first B-26 Trainer which he flew in until they were removed from combat. After the war, Ralph served in the United States Air Force as a senior ranking Non Commissioned Officer working in aerial photography. Duties included mapping the entire Empire of Japan.

A Cowboy Goes to War

Biographies & Memoirs

McDougal, Ralph

Leaders & Notable People

Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye, is a beautiful color softcover book. Filled with pictures, this premium color edition was created to honor military veterans of the Greatest Generation for their courage and personal sacrifice during the attack on United States military forces at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. Master photographers Billie and Robert Nicholson have assembled a photographic journey of six Honor Flight veterans from Pensacola, Florida during the week long 70th year commemoration of the attack, the last and final organized annual reunion of Pearl Harbor survivors. One veteran spoke of his desire to return to Pearl Harbor, “… to say one last goodbye to my friends and comrades who died that day and throughout the war.”

Mill, George

Carraway, Myron J.

Edmond, Frank L.

Braddock, William M.

Landis, James L.

Phillips, Cass E.

Gallawa, Jacob

In 1864, during the American War Between the States, a special train leaves Atlanta, Georgia with wounded Union soldiers and heads north. It also carries a secret cargo for the President of the United States. While en route, Confederate soldiers attack the train near Morristown, Tennessee and hijack the precious cargo which disappears for nearly one-hundred and fifty years.      Paul and Tina Mouchette find an unusual artifact and a personal diary written by Paul’s great-great-grandfather who fought for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After doing in-depth research, they believe a large amount of gold is hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee.       Before Paul and Tina can realize their goal of finding the gold, career criminals and an unscrupulous politician attempt to deprive the couple of their just rewards. However, not all is what it seems and the mystery of Lincoln’s Treasure continues to deepen.

Lincoln's Treasure

Schultz, Chris

Action & Adventure

Two years after a Soviet initiated nuclear attack on the United States, the war becomes one of attrition and must be resolved beneath the waves. As people on both sides grow tired of the war, they express their dissatisfaction, setting the scene to remove both regimes, one by military coup, the other by political means.United States Navy LCDR Brent Maddock, Commanding Officer USS Steelhead, becomes a leading force to foil the Soviets' plan to bring down the American government. He must help his sworn enemy in order to gain details of their secret plans. Crucial for allied success, intelligence gathering and destroying Soviet undersea warfare assets, Maddock must take Steelhead into the North Atlantic beneath the Arctic ice pack.Unknown to Maddock, he is secretly being hunted by a Russian naval officer, sworn to kill him.

Beyond Silent Battleground (Submarine Classics)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

In 1972, the United States Congress authorized Custom Services to establish a fifteen-man, American-Indian law enforcement unit to patrol the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation in southern Arizona. Their primary mission is to track drug smugglers and illegal immigrants who cross the border of Mexico into the American-Indian Tohono O’odham Nation located in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona, an area infested with dangerous rattlesnakes, venomous lizards and sometimes with deadly radical terrorists. The unit is called Shadow Wolves, earning the name by the way they conduct a field operation. If a Shadow Wolf customs agent or a U.S. Border Patrol officer finds any evidence of drug smuggling and illegal migrations within the Indian Nation’s boundaries, a team, or in some cases, the entire fifteen-man unit is deployed to track and hunt down the lawbreakers. The Tohono O’odham Shadow Wolves organization is the only authorized American-Indian tracker-unit presently in the U.S. law enforcement inventory. Their motto is: In brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight … for I am a Shadow Wolf. While on assignment in the desert, Special Agent Tino Ortega, lead agent of the Shadow Wolves, and two members of his team find three bodies killed execution style. Two of the bodies are U.S. Border Patrol agents. The third body is one of their own, a Shadow Wolf tracker. The FBI asks Ortega to assist in finding those who murdered the three men. He agrees, but the Shadow Wolves soon learn there is more to the case than a simple murder investigation.

Shadow Wolves

Ottenhausen, Nelson O.

Mystery

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