Historical Stories

Or, an account of a Young Lad's self-rescue from Accidental Marooning on a Hostile Shore and his two year trek across Untamed Wilderness and Rugged icy Mountains and endless Barren Windblown Plains evading Wild Beasts and Savage Red Indians and Bestial Spaniards to return to the Former Colonies of His Majesty Geo III by the Grace of God. How He Fared.

Corporal Harry Hamlin has just been promoted to Sergeant and put in charge of a Squad of Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division on the 16th of December 1944. Unbeknownst to him this is the first day of what will be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Christmas is only 8 days away; Harry and his fellow paratroopers may gain a better appreciation of the little things in life. But they will have to survive fierce combat and the coldest winter in a hundred years!

This third and final book of the trilogy is set in the European Theater of World War Two and it covered the period of 1939 to 1945. Our Time traveling hero is hard at work trying to smooth the rough edges of history without creating a conundrum and he is seeing the reality of history without any bias from opinionated so called experts of the period.

Sir Francis Drake: legendary explorer, captain, and privateer. Though the most successful sailor of his day, he still manages to stumble onto the treasure hunt of a lifetime in the twilight of his life, leading to a race against his Spanish rival for a potentially world-altering find. This story is a prequel to the video game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Love and loss in 1066 Anglo-Saxon England.

This is the first of a series of stories that I am going to do based on various songs, mostly ones I suspect most readers have never heard. This one is based of an old standard, and involves two young Jewish kids in love with each other in the arranged-marriage ghetto of the Lower East Side. Their marriages have been arranged, but not to each other. How will they cope?

This is the story of Mary O’Donnell, a story of survival against terrible odds. Using her wits and her ability to adapt, to do whatever it takes to survive, she overcomes obstacles and triumphs over adversity.

In a mid-1930s London suburb, as storm clouds rise over the growing militaristic resurgence in Germany, a window cleaner shows his young son the ropes of his business and reminisces in thoughts and conversations about the Great War.

A young Marylander interrupts a very active sex life to join the fight