by Bob | Aug 26, 2020 | Hidden History
Sounds like a reverse Man in the High Castle. I had never really considered it until I saw a book in the Fort Campbell library some years ago titled Japan’s Secret War: How Japan’s Race to Build its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North...
by Bob | Feb 18, 2020 | Hidden History
It seems like a headline from a current newspaper but this was 1969. And one of those was the commander of the Fifth Special Forces Group (Airborne) who would later become the template for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. While running technically illegal cross-border...
by Bob | Feb 13, 2020 | Hidden History
I’ve examined the balance of power in the United States in several of my books because the Founding Fathers never intended their work to last this long. In The Line, I looked at what the military might do if it felt the President was going against what they...
by Bob | Jan 27, 2020 | Hidden History
First off, if it had worked, many of the big problems in our Constitution that had to be incorporated to allow slavery wouldn’t exist and our present would be much different. But the bigger question is this: would the one for Independence then have even been...
by Bob | Jan 3, 2020 | Hidden History
First interesting piece of trivia: William Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became LSU. In 1860, with war clouds on the horizon, he wrote a letter to a fellow professor where he...
by Bob | Dec 29, 2019 | Hidden History
I recently noticed the Secretary of State weighing in on his review of a movie. Which is odd, to say the least. I watched The Report and yes, it is fiction. Thus, why is he weighing in on it? Doesn’t he have more important things to do? It’s also odd since...
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