by Robert | Mar 21, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union
I apologize Tom, I’ve reread this morning the article by Naomi Oreske’s et.al. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future that you’ve posted on your Facebook page some time ago. My initial opinion, that she misinterprets the...
by Robert | Jan 31, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union
Bihac, Bosnia-Herzogovina Last week Patrice and I went to Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina for our ninth wedding anniversary. Driving from Bihac to Velika Kladusia (border town between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) one encounters roadside memorials commemorating WWII...
by Robert | Dec 1, 2013 | Book Reviews, Deception, Publishing, Russia, Soviet Union
Serge Kotlar and I (Yay!, Merrill, Wisconsin) translated Thirteen Coats from Russian to English as research for the next book in The Long War series, The Executioner’s Son. I read and speak Russian and have studied the country and its culture since my 17th year on...
by Robert | Nov 20, 2013 | Russia, Soviet Union
On a spring day in 1953 on Illian Meadow across the Kamenka River and beneath the walls of the Suzdahl Kremlin, Danton Larionov, son of the NKVD executioner and a bully, spies the stranger, fourteen-year-old Ekaterina Soroka, daughter of the dancer and a storyteller....
by Robert | Jul 16, 2013 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union
Spirit Falls – Ледоход My long time, Merrill, Wisconsin, friend Serge Kotlar has been translating my Cold War inter-connected series of novels into Russian. The first volume, Spirit Falls (Ледоход in Russian) is now available in print and electronic...
by Robert | May 9, 2013 | Deception, Publishing, Russia, Soviet Union
Nickolai Chernyshevski and Vladimir Lenin wrote essays fretting over What is to be done? As do I; fret, that is. Their ambition was to remake Russia; mine is somewhat less, merely to tell you what my plans are, or specifically, what I will publish over the next two...