John Sammon Sammon A young recruit learns the price of honor trying to win a medal for himself in the truce village of Panmunjom, on the volatile border of North and South Korea, between two of the world's largest hostile forces. The North Koreans are as tough and mean Read more ... as the propaganda blaring from their loudspeakers. In an era of push-button warfare, at Panmunjom they still fight like cavemen, with fists and rocks. An intimate and ribald portrait of what it was like to serve in an elite handpicked force at Panmunjom. Based on a true story. Review below from Amazon.com UK: Top Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars By Abafwetu Format: Paperback Freedom Pagoda delivers the inside view of a young man's life inside the military, serving in a foreign country, and facing the challenges of life and love for the first time. While it gives you a good look inside the military and political workings of warring parties, it also is reflective of one man's life that is touching, raw and real. It's a boy becomes a man story that will leave you wondering when the sequel will be available. Freedom Pagoda is available at https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Pagoda-John-W-Sammon/dp/1588989259.

John Sammon Sammon If there is a villain in the historical novel of World War I “Guns at the Abyss” it is Arthur Zimmermann, German Undersecretary of State in 1914. In actuality he was Secretary of State because his boss Gottlieb von Jagow, a shy retiring man, was Read more ... often detached and dis-involved from the momentous events. Thick-headed, determined, obnoxious, arrogant, Zimmermann was consistently a driving force behind the scenes in steering Germany toward the disastrous decision to support its ally Austria Hungary to attack Serbia with no conditions, the famous “Blank Check.” Later Zimmermann would become infamous when in a deadly display of stupidity he authorized the sending of a telegram to Mexico guaranteeing the Mexicans that if they launched an attack on the neutral United States (to diverts its attention from the war), Germany would help Mexico recover territories lost to Mexico in the Mexican War (California, Arizona, New Mexico). The British intercepted the “Zimmermann Telegram” and relayed it to an infuriated and formerly pacifist President Woodrow Wilson. The U.S. entered World War I a few months later and tipped the war in favor of the allies ensuring Germany’s defeat. “Guns at the Abyss” is an accurate recreation of the secret meetings that led to the Great War. Here is what the publisher said of the historical suspense romance novel. Guns at the Abyss is a novelistic political stage show replete with a realistic cast of government bureaucrats, dignitaries, military leaders and soldiers, patriots and radicals, actual city and street names, parks and buildings, true-to-life details of period dress, decoration, pomp, charm, period viewpoint, sexuality, and voyeurism. The dialogue and other human interaction are calculated to fit the portrayal of an era when manners and social behavior dictated allegiance to custom, position, and patriotism. You may access the novel at https://www.web-e-books.com/abyss/editors-notes.html.