Robert Maddock

Operation Wappen (eBook, ePUB)

A War That Never Was
Illustrator: Pönk?nen, Raija

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a short story spanning two years from 1956 to 1958. It includes the authors Marine Corps service as a Second Lieutenant artillery forward observer attached to Third Battalion Sixth Marine Regiment led by Colonel Austin C. Shifty Shofner (one of only nine men ever to escape a Japanese prisoner of war camp). It describes the maturation of Phase III warfarethe landing by helicopter of an intact infantry battalion ready to fight behind enemy lines (Operation Deep Water) and the beginnings of Phase IV warfare with the return of knights to the battlefield (Yasser Arafat/eventually Osama bin Landen) and an MI6/CIA joint clandestine, frustrated effort to overthrow the Syrian government (Operation Wappen).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781543460858
• Artikelnr.: 52646204

Autorenporträt

Robert K Maddock Jr. has a love of history. He graduated from St Georges School, Middle Town, Rhode Island 52, and Stanford University with a BA, 56. He is a Captain USMCR with active service and reserve duty (56-65) part of which was in the Middle East. He graduated from the University of Virginia with an MD 62. He, did 5 years post graduate training at University of Utah College of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, was full time faculty 3 years and eventually Adjunct Professor of Medicine (U of Utah) and Fellow in the American College of Physicians. His wife, Raija Pnknen RN, FNP, is illustrator. Combined they have reared 9 children.