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#1 New York Times bestselling author. Midnight Flyboys. Sons and Soldiers. Bridge to the Sun. Hero Found. Down to the Sea. And the Sea Will Tell. U.S. Navy vet.

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Learn more about the heroes of MIDNIGHT FLYBOYS
YouTube video by History in Five Learn more about the heroes of MIDNIGHT FLYBOYS

Now available for preorder...
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16.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Midnight Flyboys The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring c...

Wow. Publishers Weekly review is in.
β€œPropulsive account...spotlights Allied aviators and spies who were part of a top-secret operation to disable and disrupt Nazi defenses ahead of the D-Day invasion...Novelistic and enlightening.”
www.simonandschuster.net/books/Midnig...

31.08.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A story that reminds us who we are. #bookclub #reading #bookworm #books #booklover #bookreview #bookcommunity #nonfiction #bibliophile #TBR #bookrecommendations #WWII #theboysinthelight

22.07.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, β€œThe First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

28.04.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 27689    πŸ” 6671    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 280

Trump donor John Phelan, who never served in the military, now Navy Secretary, looking to hire as spokesperson a correspondent for far-right news outlet Breitbart. Fake news anyone? My advice to U.S. sailors (I used to be one, proudly so): volunteer for sea duty. Now.

23.04.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breitbart correspondent Kristina Wong being considered for chief Navy spokesperson role Kristina Wong, a correspondent for far-right leaning Breitbart News, is being considered to be chief spokesperson for Navy Secretary John Phelan, sources say.

www.cbsnews.com/news/kristin...

23.04.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The next one...Now available for preorders.

24.03.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump behavior today with Pres Zulensky was shameful. We have lost our standing with Europe and global allies. We are now an ally of Putin.

28.02.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2458    πŸ” 422    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 12

Money talks

16.02.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 95473    πŸ” 9704    πŸ’¬ 2218    πŸ“Œ 331
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On this day in 1945, Violette Szabo was executed in RavensbrΓΌck death camp. She had received secret agent training in England and parachuted into France in June 1944 to fight the Nazis occupying her country. Her story is in my new book Midnight Flyboys due this Fall and now available for preorders.

05.02.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, Musk and his crew will be demanding to know what all these spare parts are about? And do you really need that many mechanics? Give them buyouts!

05.02.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On this day in 1945, Violette Szabo was executed in RavensbrΓΌck death camp. She had received secret agent training in England and parachuted into France in June 1944 to fight the Nazis occupying her country. Her story is in my new book Midnight Flyboys due this Fall and now available for preorders.

05.02.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

05.02.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5450    πŸ” 1863    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 57
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More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs β€” the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warpla...

I have never been more ashamed of my country, my government. Where do these travesties stop?
www.yahoo.com/news/more-de...

26.01.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps the most disastrous thing he's done yet, although it's still early. (Is this really only Week One?)

25.01.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Robert Saleh is an omen: 6 signs that the 49ers' luck might be changing With the re-hiring of their old defensive coordinator, the 49ers already have a win streak going into the 2025 season.

The 49ers' luck is already changing in 2025 -- 6 reasons why landing Robert Saleh is a better start to the off-season than anything that happened in 2024

sfstandard.com/2025/01/25/r...

25.01.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

20.01.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Removing Turner means there are things Trump and Gabbard and Putin and Elon plan that no one but an active traitor to the United States would accept or not blow the whistle on

We’re seeing all the signs that what’s coming is a hard stop for American democracy, and nothing is being done to avert it

16.01.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 5
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Trump and Family Blur Lines in Deals on Cusp of His Presidency Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses.

The scale of overlap between President-elect Trump’s family members and their business interests β€” and the government he will lead β€” underscores how unprecedented the second Trump presidency and the potential for conflicts of interest will be.

07.01.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 364    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 21

A temporary halt to a brutal war. Perhaps 33 hostages will come out. Tireless work by Sec State Blinken and CIA Dir Burns. Diplomacy only ratifies reality. The IDF smashed Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran alone. Trump threat significant to foes of Israel.

15.01.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Buckeyes have looked unbeatable since they destroyed Oregon.

11.01.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Victor Brombert, Princeton Scholar With a Secret Army Past, Dies at 101 As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America β€” then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.

The last of the Ritchie Boys I wrote about in Sons and Soldiers. Lovely piece about a lovely man...

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/u...

13.12.2024 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What about Mangione's mental health? Something happened to this smart and accomplished young manβ€” social withdrawal, lack of impulse control, etcβ€”not CAUSED by the country's health care system. More likely, he became schizophrenic, which often presents itself between late teens and early 30s.

10.12.2024 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Victor Brombert, age 101, the last of the six Ritchie Boys I wrote about in Sons and Soldiers. Born to Russian Jewish Γ©migrΓ©s, he grew up in France. As a member of the first armored unit to land at Normandy, he played a key role in the battle to liberate his beloved France.

02.12.2024 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles' lobbying clients include:

- The tobacco industry
- A Canadian mining private equity firm
- A foreign news company whose owner has been indicted for money laundering

So much for draining the swamp.

19.11.2024 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3432    πŸ” 671    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 23
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Morning, friends. Time to dig back in to all of this.
Democracy matters.

17.11.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 48658    πŸ” 4848    πŸ’¬ 1393    πŸ“Œ 226
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"Our Week in Reviews: 11/16/24." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our...

16.11.2024 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Veterans Day to all veterans! No matter where or when you served, or for how long, or at what ranks, or which service, active duty, guard, or reserve: Well done!

10.11.2024 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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