It takes a lot of perseverance to write a book. I should know because I have finished ten of the things. It would have been easy, so easy to lay a half-written book aside and promise myself I would get back to it some day. And then wait for that day to come. It never [...]
Also tagged Cold WarGenealogy Blog, Family History, murder, Space Race, writing booksRecently IE Magazine came out with its latest issue. It is dedicated to Industrial Engineers mostly in America and I am a life member of the organization. So the editors gladly gave me part of a page to tell about what I, a retired industrialist have been doing. Here is how it came out:
Sometimes the [...]
It’s over. My ninth book is on the market and I can turn to more important things, such as my tenth book. And Ham radio. And maybe, politics.
My ninth book, Ploughshares into Swords, is about WWII—how civilians and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) helped win the war. A friend of mine was also a [...]
Also tagged anti-matter, Baikonur, Caltech, Carl Anderson, China Lake, CIA, FDR, Ham Radio, Khrushchev, NASA, NSA, Pasadena, Ploughshares, SwordsIn my forthcoming book, Ploughshares into Swords, I tell how a Colonel in the US Army visited Belgium at the end of WWII. At an inn an old Belgian man wanted permission to kiss the colonel because the American Army had save Belgium not once but twice from the German horde. “American chickens had [...]
Also tagged Barack Obama, Belgium, Black Church, Chickens, Cold War, Election 2008, Jeremiah Wright