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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II
In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonishing find—his briefcase is empty but for photos of beautiful white horses that have been stolen and kept on a secret farm behind enemy lines. Hitler has stockpiled the world’s finest purebreds in order to breed the perfect military machine—an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food.
With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army’s last great cavalrymen, Colonel Hank Reed, makes a bold decision—with General George Patton’s blessing—to mount a covert rescue operation. Racing against time, Reed’s small but determined force of soldiers, aided by several turncoat Germans, steals across enemy lines in a last-ditch effort to save the horses.
Pulling together this multistranded story, Elizabeth Letts introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters: Alois Podhajsky, director of the famed Spanish Riding School of Vienna, a former Olympic medalist who is forced to flee the bomb-ravaged Austrian capital with his entire stable in tow; Gustav Rau, Hitler’s imperious chief of horse breeding, a proponent of eugenics who dreams of genetically engineering the perfect warhorse for Germany; and Tom Stewart, a senator’s son who makes a daring moonlight ride on a white stallion to secure the farm’s surrender.
A compelling account for animal lovers and World War II buffs alike, The Perfect Horse tells for the first time the full story of these events. Elizabeth Letts’s exhilarating tale of behind-enemy-lines adventure, courage, and sacrifice brings to life one of the most inspiring chapters in the annals of human valor.
Praise for The Perfect Horse
“Winningly readable . . . Letts captures both the personalities and the stakes of this daring mission with such a sharp ear for drama that the whole second half of the book reads like a WWII thriller dreamed up by Alan Furst or Len Deighton. . . . The right director could make a Hollywood classic out of this fairy tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Letts, a lifelong equestrienne, eloquently brings together the many facets of this unlikely, poignant story underscoring the love and respect of man for horses.”—Kirkus Reviews
On Christmas Eve 2007, Judy and Wayne Anderson’s daughter, Michele, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, arrived at their home for a family meal.
Unbeknownst to them, their daughter was armed with a loaded 9 mm pistol and McEnroe was carrying a .357 Magnum. Both parents were callously shot dead by the pair and their bodies hidden from view.
Two and a half hours later, Michele’s brother Scott, his wife Erica and their two children, Olivia (5) and Nathan (3), arrived at the house. Within the hour, they too had been pitilessly slain, in an act of violence that was breath-taking in its scope and cruelty.
With his highly-anticipated third book, Paul Sanders takes the reader inside every day of the trial of Michele Anderson, with his customary attention to detail, from December 2015 until March 2016.
And in a unique digression from his other works, Sanders includes something he has never done before: An interview with one of the killers, Joseph McEnroe, at Walla Walla Penitentiary.
Banquet of Consequences is the first of two books on what came to be known as the Carnation murders. Were the killings a premeditated act, or had the defendants acted in self defense? And what of the deaths of Olivia and Nathan? Who shot them and why? It would not be an easy task for a jury to decide.
Paul’s book, Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight (Book 3 A Juror’s Perspective) has received many honors in the General Non-Fiction category: 2018 Winner Florida Book Festival, 2017 Winner Los Angeles – Halloween Book Festival, 2017 Runner-Up Southern California Book Festival Honors, 2017 Runner-Up London Book Festival Top Honors.
Look for Book Two: The Carnation Murders, “Beyond the Pale: Rogue Juror – The Joseph McEnroe Death Penalty Trial.”
Available 2020.
Reader reviews for Paul Sanders:
“Move over Ann Rule and Shanna Hogan and make way for America’s newest crime writer!”
“Paul Sanders is now among my favourite authors. Both of his books had me right there!”
“The reader is taken into a world few of us who have ever received a jury summons will ever experience.”
On June 4, 2008, at approximately 5:30 PM in a quiet suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, Jodi Arias stabbed Travis Alexander twenty-nine times, cut his throat and then shot him in the head. The killer then went to great lengths to cover up the crime, including sending his grandmother flowers, going to the memorial service, driving by the victim’s house and calling the lead investigator, Detective Esteban Flores.
It would take five years before the case would be put in front of a second jury and leave them to decide whether Arias was a cold, calculating killer or the victim of extreme domestic violence at the hands of an abusive boyfriend?
Paul Sanders sat in the public gallery for each and every one of the 47 days of the trial, and took extensive notes, transposing every twist and turn of it to social media every night. With allegations of pornography, racial slurs and a search for the answer to the question of domestic violence and alleged child abuse, the journey is both painful and meticulous.
Humbling, intimidating and powerful at the same time, this trial would test the jurors in ways they could never have foreseen, in their ultimate search for truth and justice.
On Pre-Sale Now! The stunning sequel to Paul Sanders first book, 'Brain Damage: A Juror's Tale':
'Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire - The Domestic Violence Query' (March 26, 2018)
Amazon Reviews:
“Having sat on this very jury, I can attest to the accuracy and attention to detail of “Why Not Kill Her.” Two thumbs up!” Haaken-Liknes, Jury Foreman of the Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial.
"Why Not Kill Her" is a gripping true crime story from the eyes of a former death penalty juror with a heart and soul that seeks truth and justice."
"Move over Ann Rule and Shanna Hogan and make way for America's newest true crime writer!"
On January 14, 2009, Marissa DeVault killed her husband, Dale Harrell, by striking him multiple times on the head with a hammer. It seemed like a simple case of murder, but questions remained. Was Dale Harrell a hapless, innocent victim of a brutal killing, or was this the final act of a desperate woman who had suffered through years of domestic violence?
The fact that the incident took place in a middle class suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, with the couple’s three children within the property at the time, meant nothing.
The questions for the jury were simple. Was the killing premeditated or was it an act of self defense? Was it done for financial gain? Should the defendant pay for her crime with her life, should she be incarcerated for twenty-five years to life, or should she receive a life sentence with no chance of parole?
Author Paul Sanders was Juror #13 in a trial packed with twists and turns. He sat every day in court, in a trial which got deep inside the day-to-day lives of a family and eventually delivered justice to a victim.
Read this remarkable true story now and make up your own mind as to the truth behind the Hammer Killing Trial.
On Pre-Sale Now! The stunning sequel to 'Brain Damage: A Juror's Tale':
'Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire - The Domestic Violence Query' (Released March 26, 2018)
Amazon reviews:
“Mr. Sanders is a brilliant writer. You feel like you are right in the courtroom with him…”
“This is a must-read for any avid trial watcher!”
“Brain Damage is a very interesting journey through a death penalty trial. It made me want to be a juror!”
Also by Paul Sanders:
"Why Not Kill Her: A Juror's Perspective - The Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial"
"Banquet of Consequences: A Juror's Plight - The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson" (March 2017)
On January 23, 2014, the author reported for jury duty without taking notice to the media vehicles lined in front of the courthouse. He checked in unaware that 1200 others were also being counted as potential jurors. He did not know when he walked into the courtroom that the case of premeditated murder would change his life. It would seem that the most important question of the day, as asked to every potential juror, was whether he could, if the circumstances were correct and the law dictated as such, apply the death penalty to the defendant?
The most critical question, however, came during the written questioning process of voir dire, a tool for the court to determine whether a potential juror would be a final decision maker. The question was simple: had he ever experienced domestic violence as an adult or juvenile?
The answer would force the juror to face a past painted with child abuse and a future framed by shame. He had to confront the demons that would eventually impact his decision of whether the defendant should live or die.
Award winning author and former death penalty juror, Paul Sanders, does it again in his juror’s perspective series that began with the best-seller, ‘Brain Damage: A Juror’s Tale’, continued with ‘Why Not Kill Her: A Juror’s Perspective’ and riveted readers with ‘Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight’. ‘Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire’ is not as much about an infamous killer but about the sacrifices and truths a juror must confront before deciding the fate of another.
Amazon reviews of prior works:
“A treat to be inside the jury room…!”
“If the sign of a great writer is seen when you can’t put the story down…then Paul Sanders is a great writer!”
“Brain Damage is one of the best books ever written…kept me engaged!”
Stories from in-depth interviews with more than 100 family members from different ethnicities reveal the impact of the first-born daughter's role on her adult life, her siblings and family relationships. Commonly expressed: "I want to know I'm not the only one out there feeling this way." Results from the author's online survey of several hundred adult family members about their experiences and feelings provide additional insights into the pride and pain, resentments and hopes of oldest daughters and those who share their lives. At the end of each of the ten conversational-style chapters, a contributing clinical psychologist adds insights and self-help Reflections for personal transformation and restoring or improving sibling and family relationships. As this book illustrates, birth order is a fact; it does not have to be a fate. "Oldest Daughters: What to know if you are one or have ever been bossed around by one" affirms that changes are possible and can be transforming.
What could be better than travel highlights from the World’s Best Books written by the World’s Best Writers.
Twain in Paris, Dickens and Dumas at the Carnival in Rome, a bicycle trip from Teheran to Yokohama, Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale first meeting in Crimea , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Ceylon and Rudyard Kipling interviewing Mark Twain.
For many years before his death in 1943, R. G. Collingwood, who was both a Professor of Philosophy at Oxford and a practicing historian, was engaged in what he intended as a major contribution to the philosophy of history.
The Idea of History, first published in 1946, was this contribution. It became a canonical text, and linked the practise of philosophical thought with the job of the historian to place themselves in the minds of those men whose deeds he was placing into a context.
Four parts of the book describe how the modern idea of history has developed. Collingwood begins with the Greeks and Romans, writing of Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus and Thucydides, then progressing to the early modern period throughout Europe and focussing in turn on each of the main centres of historical thought: Italy, Germany, France and England.
Dr. P. J. Miller's story is unique. Growing up in New York City, who would have thought that he’d complete his veterinary degree at the Royal School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland? In Cute Poodles, Sweet Old Ladies & Hugs, Dr. Miller has assembled a "greatest hits" of veterinary tales—stories that include colorful clients, wisecracking hospital staff, and pets that aren't always friendly.
Cute Poodles, Sweet Old Ladies & Hugs provides a humorous look at what Dr. Miller went through to become a veterinarian and his daily life as a doctor, told only as a typical New Yorker could. Underneath the humor, Dr. Miller gives a glimpse of how strong and emotional the human-animal bond can be, becoming an instant must-read for any aspiring veterinary professional or animal lover that wants to know what it is really like to be a veterinarian.
See his website for further information about the book and for more veterinary tales http://www.yodrmiller.com/
Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII.
But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged - twenty-five courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic.
Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb.
Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves.
This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.
It follows their lives from the terrifying moments of the detonation of the bomb, through their years as outcasts in their own country, to their not always idyllic stay in America, and on to their lives since — some tragic, some heroic, some affectingly ordinary.
“An illuminating portrait of heroic people...A sobering inspiration for all of us” — Philadelphia Inquirer
“Controlled, fearsome, wonderful, appalling.” — Los Angeles Times
“Evokes a range of human emotions that has been lost in the dead vocabulary of annihilation and deterrence” — The New York Times
Rodney Barker has been an editor, an investigative reporter, and a feature writer for a wide variety of regional and national magazines. In 1979 he was one of three American journalists awarded travel grants to Japan to write about Hiroshima; his resulting reportage, which was published in the Denver Post, reawakened his involvement with the Hiroshima Maidens, two of whom had stayed with his family when he was a child.
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There is a hidden game being played in your business. It is made up of the unspoken rules, unquestioned assumptions, and the invisible agreements that define how your organization operates. When you don’t know the hidden game exists, it runs you and your business. You aren’t playing the game—the game is playing you.
In Your Hidden Game, business consultant and CEO of Think Business Growth, Sharon Rich, shows you how to bring these invisible agreements out on the table, shine a light on them, and work out new agreements together. Sharon identifies the ten agreements that are most essential to success in any business and lays out a roadmap for bringing your team into alignment so they can execute at higher and higher levels of performance.
Sharon shares real stories from the front lines of her client businesses that demonstrate where organizational behavior goes awry and what leaders can do to get their teams on track toward their desired outcomes.
Simply put, by becoming aware of the hidden games being played in your business and intentionally reworking the rules, you’ll find yourself playing a new and more successful game.
Speaking from his own experiences as a soldier and a journalist C. E. Montague writes about the boundless optimism and commitment of men who enlisted and then returned with a communal sense of disenchantment.
Describing heavy hearts and the harsh regimes imposed on both sides he explores what duty means in hindsight and questions the way in which war is fought whilst accepting the need for resolution.
He explores the pride and idealism of a nation determined to win, the scale of human loss and the traumatic legacy which is left behind.
Gravely critiquing the cost of war, ‘Disenchantment’ lifts the veil of propaganda and configured journalism which was a defining feature of WW1.
Montague expertly critiques the limits on freedom of the press and misuse of information in times of unrest which seem to highlight victories but fail to expand on the ugly darkness which is part of war, or the sacrifices made to win.
References to classic literature make this a beautifully intellectual and unique piece of war time literature.
It is an honest and philosophical account of one man’s disenchantment with a war that undoubtedly also speaks for many other men and was a pivotal piece of anti-war literature when first published in 1922.
Charles Edward Montague, (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928), was an English journalist and novelist. In 1914, Montague was 47, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915.
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John Cudahy’s The Armies March is a personal account of the early days of Nazi Germany’s sweeping invasion and conquering of Europe.
The tale begins in Belgium in the first half of 1940, as rumors of the advance of the German army spread.
Though such rumors are initially derided and popular opinion declares that an invasion will never come, it gradually becomes clear that there is no resisting the power of the Nazis.
With the Belgium government in exile, Cudahy returns to the United States, where the abundance and excesses of the American people creates a striking contrast to the privations he witnessed in Europe.
His feelings of guilt send him back to Europe, where the Nazi flag waves proudly over Germany’s conquered nations, in the capacity of a journalist.
During his time in Berlin, he speaks with a few high-ranking officials, but most refuse to be interviewed. Discouraged, Cudahy makes plans to leave, but on the day of departure word comes that Hitler has granted him an interview.
He travels to Hitler’s remote residence and conducts an interview focusing on questions of Germany’s approach to US convoys, the likelihood of Germany invading the western hemisphere, and thoughts on the path of American-German relations after the war.
Cudahy offers thoughts regarding Germany’s economic situation, which was based on a barter system rather than on a gold standard, and the intended German approach for post-war economics and international trade.
He also writes of Germany’s armies, particularly about the inculcation of young men and women in labor camps regarding the Nazi Party’s platform and beliefs.
Published in 1940, early in the war, Cudahy’s account depicts a Europe at the height of Germany’s power, when the British had retreated and the Americans had declined to officially support the Allies and declare war. As a retrospective look, it offers in the moment thoughts and reflections at a time when an Allied victory seemed but a pipe dream.
The answer to that question is well known today.
However, published in 1933, The German Revolution: Its Meaning and Menace charts and analyses the political situation in Germany without knowledge of the terrible climax.
After the First World War, Germany collapsed into revolution. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and fled. Germany became the Weimar Republic. The Spartacist Uprising sought a Communist State. Communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered. The political right began to rise…
A contemporary British politician, Joseph King gives a perspective and commentary on post-war Germany, examining from the implementation of the Treaty of Versailles, through the political turmoil and putsches, to the rise of Hitler as Chancellor.
This wide-ranging approach sets the scene for Hitler’s rise to power and the policies he began to implement.
A contemporary account, The German Revolution: Its Meaning and Menace is not only a valuable historical work, but also a fascinating insight into how Germany was viewed in this tumultuous time.
Joseph King (1860-1943) was a British politician. Beginning his career in the Liberal Party, Joseph transferred to Labour after the First World War. Joseph wrote a number of political works, particularly on Russia and Germany.
Step back in time and take a journey of over three thousand miles across land and sea.
Eldorado is a series of brief glimpses into a world both haunting and beautiful.
Bayard Taylor takes the reader from New York to Panama, around Mexico and up to California and in that time he seems to see the whole spectrum of human existence.
Sometimes he seems barely to believe what he is seeing, and the novel has a continuous sense of wonder to it.
Although gold is everywhere - in the dirt, drifting in the streams, always changing hands, shaping the landscapes and the people that it touches – it seems that Bayard can see past that precious metal to the land and the lives beneath it.
As his journey takes us beyond California and down into South America it becomes a celebration of the world as Taylor found it.
Taylor collects both stories and songs on his travels, determined to chronicle the changing world around him.
Eldorado is a bible of the American frontier: filled with lush descriptions and fascinating stories as Barnard Taylor drifts through America like a ghost, chronicling a vast and changing continent.
There is a newness to everything in Eldorado – a sense that maybe Taylor could be standing where no one has stood before.
Could California ever have been the Eldorado it was promised to be or will humans always demand the impossible?
''With his keen eye and penchant for details, Taylor bestowed upon these tumultuous and anarchistic times an almost cinematic quality. Writing as he traveled, he managed to combine a sense of the poetic with straightforward historical documentation, underpinned with a wry sense of humor.... Widely regarded as a classic of western literature, Taylor's lively chronicle of the birth of modern California has lost nothing in terms of its initial freshness and vitality in the interim.'' Rain Taxi Review of Books
''Of all books written about the Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners, Eldorado is one of the most compelling narratives....A California version of the Federalist Papers.'' The San Francisco Chronicle
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was born in Pennsylvania. A relentless writer, he began reading at age four and writing poems at seven. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Taylor approached Horace Greeley of the New-York Tribune and proposed that the newspaper finance his trip to Europe in return for travel letters, which he would later publish as Views A-Foot (1846). After the publication of Eldorado in 1850, Taylor continued to travel the world, becoming secretary of the US delegation in Russia. A few months after being appointed American Minister to Germany, he died at the age of 53 in Berlin, Germany.
During the winter of 1849-50, while ascending the old Bear Valley trail from Ridley’s ferry, on the Merced river, my attention was attracted to the stupendous rocky peaks of the Sierra Nevadas. In the distance an immense cliff loomed, apparently to the summit of the mountains.
Written by the medical officer of the Mariposa Battalion (the first group of Euro-Americans to enter the valley), Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851 is perhaps the single most important original source we have that focuses on the early history of Yosemite Valley.
Out of print for many years, this wonderful source chronicles key historical events surrounding the discovery of Yosemite, including the 1851 conflict with the Yosemite native population, and the naming of various landmarks.
What makes this source particularly valuable and rich is the first person perspective provided by Dr Bunnel’s narrative.
Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, born in 1824 in Rochester, New York, was an American author, explorer, and physician. Inspired by the males in his family, Bunnell desired adventure in ‘the West’ from a young age. He is perhaps most well-known for his involvement in the Mariposa Battalion, and is often credited as the person who named Yosemite. He was also a soldier and surgeon I the American Civil War.
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“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have made so large a part of our lives and added so much to our happiness?”
On May 1, 1865, Sarah Raymond mounted her beloved pony and, riding alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers, left war-torn Missouri and headed west.
With the sole motive of bettering themselves, the Raymonds began their journey undecided as to whether California or Oregon would be their ultimate destination.
By the middle of June, however, they had been persuaded that Montana was in fact the place to make for and the train altered path accordingly.
As they passed through Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming towards the Rocky Mountains, they faced all manner of perils in experiencing the harsh reality of life on the Great Plains.
After four months and four days, the wagon train finally arrived in Virginia City, Montana in early September, and they set about beginning their new lives.
Unvarnished and evocative, Days on the Road is an extraordinary journal of what it was really like on the trail for the many who emigrated west in a bid to start over.
Sarah Raymond Herndon (1840-1914) arrived in Montana at the height of the Gold Rush in 1865. After teaching there for one school year, she married James M. Herndon in 1867. In addition to Days on the Road she also kept a diary of her experiences in Virginia City.
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PART ONE: HOW TO PUBLISH A BOOK
1. Writing to Market
2. Finding a Proper Editor
3. Covers, Blurbs, Taglines
4. Building Your Book
5. Pricing to Sell
6. Optimizing Metadata--Keywords & Categories
7. Distribution: Wide or Exclusive?
8. Your First Readers
9. Platform Building & Related Terrors
10. Planning for Success
PART TWO: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
11. Birth of the Kindle
12. Pirates!
13. The Lure of Self-Publishing
14. Myths, Shibboleths, Zombie Memes
15. Scammers & Weasels
16. The Age of the Algorithm
17. How the Kindle Store Works
18. Paperbacks, Short Stories. Reviews, Practicalities
19. Starting from Zero
20. Resources
PART THREE: SUCCESS STORIES
