New Releases by Rob Morris

Glowing fingers of grasping flame clawed the ball turret's armored window; I felt the heat through the cracked glass. Flames poured from The Phoenix's left inboard nacelle, blackening and consuming the wing. My electric system was shot out, the ball jammed. I was trapped, hanging from the belly of a B-17 Flying Fortress at twenty thousand feet and twenty degrees below zero. My nostrils burned from oily smoke and the cordite of hundreds of fifty-caliber shells that leapt from the guns. My foot pedals and the controls on my firing arms were dead, the hydraulics gone. Whether I'd live or die depended on Polansky or Carson, up in the waist. One of them would have to crank me up manually. Jack Jones, a man haunted by the loss of his B-17 bomber pilot father in World War Two shortly before his birth, travels back in time through a Native American portal with Blackfeet Medicine Man Alvin Tailfeathers and his coyote Leon. Together they are transported to 1942 America, where Jack trains before being assigned to a heavy bomber group in England and flying harrowing combat missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner. His time-traveling mission's goal will save one man's life while costing another his. This work of historical fiction by acclaimed military historian Rob Morris takes the reader through all aspects of training, combat, and the prisoner of war experience, ending with an 89-day forced winter march and a thrilling climax that has more twists and turns than a juking Messerschmitt being jumped by a P-51!! Filled with memorable characters, intense combat scenes, and humor, this new novel truly brings to the page what it was like to fly and fight in the American bomber war at a time when the odds of surviving 25 missions was one in three.

Dedication: This book is dedicated to the memory of Bradford Stevens and Myer Winkelman, the two men who flew Marinell, and to Mary Shuffleton, who was Marinell's inspiration. Noted historical writer Rob Morris found this story by accident at a garage sale. The sale of personal effects from World War 2 veteran Brad Stevens. Brad had been a fighter pilot and through bad fortune had found himself riddled with Alzheimers and his property was being sold to pay for his care. This book is a carefully researched and structured history of his story. It tells of his glorious service and of his saddening decline.

Dan Culler's The Black Hole of Wauwilermoos first came out in 1995. It was self-published, written in a burst of creative energy over a three-month period during which Dan sometimes worked day and night. A small print run of 1,000 books resulted, and were quickly sold out. Despite its small scale and lack of promotion, Black Hole of Wauwilermoos has become a book that is widely admired and often quoted by World War Two scholars and historians, most recently in Donald Miller's best-selling Masters of the Air. I have attempted to stay true to the book's original premise and style. All I've done is tighten it up (it's about half as long as the original). If, upon finishing, one is left wanting more, I recommend the original version of Black Hole, and Dan's memoir of his childhood and young adulthood, The Circle of Thorns: Birth and Learning Years. Dan is a prolific and thoughtful writer of short stories, poems, and books, most of which he shares only with a few friends. Reading Dan's collected works has allowed me to get to know a man who is at the core intensely guarded and private, a man who has been deeply impacted by his wartime experiences who carries with him a multitude of physical and emotional scars that will never heal. Despite his having lived through the banality and evil of war and imprisonment, despite being betrayed by his own government, he continues to courageously reach out to others. Given every reason to reject a loving God and a rational universe, he continues to be a spiritual man. We both hope you learn from the book and that it opens your eyes to a little-known story of World War Two.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1853 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1875 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1856 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

Military author Rob Morris spent three years tracking down and interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, and/or or sinking. Each stand-alone chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, from Bataan to the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, each chapter of untold valour and against-the-odds survival tells an intensely personal tale of young Americans fighting for survival. The book is certain to interest anyone with interest in the Second World War, told with the intensely personal style and attention to background research that has become Morris's trademark.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.

The complete history of a legendary World War II bomb group

In his lifetime, Rob Morris wrote over four hundred poems, most of which were dedicated to the themes of Freemasonry. He became a Freemason in 1846 and was the author of the rituals of The Order of the Eastern Star. In 1884, he was named the Poet Laureate of Freemasonry, which was an honor not granted since the death of the famous Masonic poet Robert Burns. Morris' most famous work, "The Level and the Square," is included in this book as is a Table of Contents for easy reference. This book was originally published in 1879.

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The only openly gay Republican member of Congress, Steve Gunderson, offers a unique vision for the GOP and for gay men and women on the eve of the 1996 presidential election. Co-author Bruce Bawer is a leading cultural critic and the author of A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1993.

A poem about Freemasonry with a memorial to the author's father (Robert Morris) by Master Mason John Scott.

Brief history of ancient Greece in comic book format. Includes a crossword puzzle and a quick quiz.