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Now Available!
The Insider
Thomas S. Fiske
ISBN 978-1-935188-20-9
Historical
Fiction
288 pages
$22.99 USD
This story of heroic American physician Tad Benson is true.
Tad really spent nine years of his life in and out of the USSR during the Space Race, helping to keep Soviet cosmonauts alive. Despite
official denials—to this day—that the U.S. had a man inside the
USSR, Benson did his humanitarian work as a physician and scientist behind
the scenes and without recognition. He was a wonderful friend who began to tell me of his secret career when he found that
his life would soon end. Grudgingly, US Intel agencies have admitted that Tad was one of their own during the Space Race years,
but little else. International politics prevent me from revealing his true name. That is why this book is a novel and not
a history.
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Reviewed by Leon Fletcher
You know, of course,
that there are actually 1,000's of books about WWII. But this book---Ploughshares
into Swords---is distinctive, perhaps unique.
It does not report the politics, maschinations, documents, intrigues
of leaders, lives if VIP's, or such. Rather, it "evolkes the lives of civilians during the period of 1940-45, and what they
did to win a war in Europe and a war in Asia at the same time." That's the "goal" of this book, as stated by the authors on
page 11 of their introduction to the book.
And the authors attain that goal admirably! Here you'll read about the
Melzian family--he an engineer and she a talented artist--and what they did to help America win its conflicts. And you'll
also read bits about dozens of other such people, few of whom ever were mentioned in news reports.
This is a book
you'll most likely think about for months after you've read it!
Enjoy! !
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NEW RELEASE!
Ploughshares into Swords:
How Civilians
and Caltech Helped Win WWII
Thomas
S. Fiske
with Lannea Melzian
ISBN: 978-1-935188-04-9
Non-Fiction
$22.95 USD / 332 pages
How did Caltech contribute to the Atomic Bomb project during WWII? Who was
supposed to have run the project instead of J. Robert Oppenheimer? Why did this famous institution become a rocket factory
and build the famous China
Lake facility? Ploughshares gives little-known one-time secret answers to these
questions as it recalls how civilians lived their lives and contributed to the winning of WWII.
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Thomas Sebastian Fiske, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, spent much of his adult life in various cities across the country as an employee of G.E.
As a retired executive of te Bobrick Corporation in CA, he has written several articles and eight books and has become Ham
Radio operator AA6TF. Tom received his BBA from Western Reserve in Cleveland and his MBA from Case, also in Cleveland. He lives with his wife, Evie in Southern
California where he operates a web site,
www.fiskefamily.com/fiskacetics .
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