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A great action book with a wonderful love story! This historical fiction saga begins with a crisis in the life of Homer Harris before World War Two. Difficult legal events are presented and evil is overcome with the help of many good people. Challenging experiences at the U.S. Naval Academy prepare Homer for a decisive role in the Merchant Marine and the U.S. Navy. Pearl Harbor changes everything when the American and German storylines merge during a desperate sea battle. You can feel the action with incredibly creative soldiers and sailors responding to leadership that will propel Homer from Ensign to America's youngest Admiral. The story leads you through interesting developments that include Australia, India, England, the Coca-Cola Company, financial institutions, and the military industrial complex. Two fine women appreciate Homer's faith character, kindness, and courage. One will become his bride at a White House wedding with President Roosevelt as best man. This captivating story will take you on a journey into the past that will resonate until the very end, keeping you up turning pages until you are finished.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers
Date de parution	30 octobre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781645367499
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Broadside
Don Girvan
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-10-30
Broadside About The Author About The Book Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Formative Years Chapter 2 Oh No! Chapter 3 Reconstruction Chapter 4 Evil in Germany Dusseldorf, Germany, April 1, 1933 Lisbon, Portugal, April 6, 1938 Rio de Janeiro, April 16, 1938 Chapter 5 From out of Nowhere Sparta, New Jersey, January 25, 1938 Chapter 6 What Now? Chapter 7 Summer in Roswell Chapter 8 Anxiety on the Rhine Chicago, April 1, 1939 Chapter 9 Escape to Annapolis Roswell, Georgia, May 21, 1939 Terminal Station, Atlanta, May 29, 1939, 9:55 a.m. Chapter 10 Get on the Gray Navy Bus Annapolis, May 30, 1938 Chapter 11 Georgia Superior Court Chapter 12 Looting the Estate Chapter 13 Justice Chapter 14 Meeting Caroline Chapter 15 The Hangman’s Noose Tightens Chicago, December 22, 1938 Chapter 16 Plebe Year Annapolis, December 25, 1938 Chapter 17 I Can’t Get Serious Chapter 18 Summer 1940 Chapter 19 The Pace Accelerates Chapter 20 Passage to Portugal Chicago, August 10, 1941 Chapter 21 The Home Stretch Year Annapolis, August 10, 1941 Chapter 22 Assigned to the Leopard Chapter 23 Graduation Annapolis, February 28, 1942 Chapter 24 Preparations for Sea Chapter 25 The First Leg March 4, 1942, 2300 Hours Chapter 26 The Canal Chapter 27 Pacific Danger Chapter 28 Australia, UK, and the USA Chapter 29 The White House Chapter 30 Return to Annapolis Chapter 31 Becoming Operational Chapter 32 Penny Chapter 33 The Plank Owners Chapter 34 Epping Forrest Chapter 35 The Wedding
About The Author
Don Girvan graduated from Georgia State University, where he edited the award-winning Georgia State Signal newspaper during his senior year. He also established a community paper called Plantation Times in Atlanta. After graduation, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant Armor serving as a Tank Platoon Leader, Armored Cavalry Troop Commander, and Aide to the Commanding General U.S. Army Alaska, Information Officer for Yukon Command, publishing the award-winning Yukon Sentinel . His last assignment was Editor of the Bayonet at Fort Benning. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal and decided, upon leaving the Army as a Captain, that he preferred a career in chemical manufacturing with Celanese Corp. After six jobs with Celanese, he founded ProTeam Products, manufacturing a commercially successful line of swimming pool chemicals in the USA and Europe. He holds five U.S. chemical patents and a number of foreign patents. Don retired, following the acquisition of ProTeam by Haviland Consumer Products, and lives with his wife and best friend, Patty, in a home that they built on the St. Johns River near St. Augustine, Florida.
About The Book
A great action book with a wonderful love story! This historical fiction saga begins with a crisis in the life of Homer Harris before World War Two. Difficult legal events are presented and evil is overcome with the help of many good people. Challenging experiences at the U.S. Naval Academy prepare Homer for a decisive role in the Merchant Marine and the U.S. Navy. Pearl Harbor changes everything when the American and German storylines merge during a desperate sea battle. You can feel the action with incredibly creative soldiers and sailors responding to leadership that will propel Homer from Ensign to America’s youngest Admiral. The story leads you through interesting developments that include Australia, India, England, the Coca-Cola Company, financial institutions, and the military industrial complex. Two fine women appreciate Homer’s faith character, kindness, and courage. One will become his bride at a White House wedding with President Roosevelt as best man. This captivating story will take you on a journey into the past that will resonate until the very end, keeping you up turning pages until you are finished.
Dedication
To the greatest generation.
Copyright Information ©
Don Girvan (2019)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher.
Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Girvan, Don
Broadside
ISBN 9781645367499 (ePub e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019907906
The main category of the book — FICTION / Romance / Military
www.austinmacauley.com/us
First Published (2019)
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
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New York, NY 10005
USA
mail-usa@austinmacauley.com
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Acknowledgements
My wonderful wife, Patty, deserves five stars for encouragement and six stars for patience with my feeble computer skills. She was thrilled when four publishers offered a contract for my first book and helped me choose the best.
Commander Kevin Owens USN (RET), my friend of twenty-five years, knew that an army guy was writing a navy story, so he helped me with little words, big pictures, and expert proofing.
Dr. Bryan Hickox, my movie producer friend, advised, after going over the story outline, that this would be a very expensive movie to make, and I should do it as a novel. I would then have a better chance negotiating movie rights.
Monika Forrest, a dear friend of twenty-eight years, was three years old and alone with her mother when the Red Army captured Berlin. She received a solid education learning English beginning in the fifth grade. As a young woman, she was hired by the U.S. Army and met her soldier husband who was from Texas. I have been fortunate to spend hours with Monika’s mother learning what it was really like and for Monika proofing the second German story line.
Leon Holbrook Esq. and William Horne Esq. both proofed the legal part of the story and offered encouragement when the early chapters were taking shape.

This original historical fiction story describes the life of Homer Harris in America before World War II, and the challenges faced by a young man coping with difficult events. He is helped by many good people and overcomes evil. His experience at the U.S. Naval Academy prepares him for a decisive role in the Merchant Marine and the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. Well-known military and political figures are combined with fictional persons in America, Australia, Great Britain, and Germany. Two fine young women appreciate his faith, character, kindness, and courage. One will become his bride.
Chapter 1

Formative Years
Homer Harris was born at the Newton New Jersey Hospital on November 1, 1921 to Mildred and Bob Harris. Bob received the Medal of Honor during the Great War for saving his submarine that dove with the main induction valve stuck open. He placed his leg into the intake and nearly died before the crew spotted a warning light and re-surfaced. After the Great War, Bob returned to Sparta, New Jersey, and went to work in sales with New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Bob and Mildred were married on June 1st, 1920, at the Sparta First Presbyterian Church. Mildred, known to her friends as Mil, graduated from the St. Barnabas School of Nursing. Mil and Bob had been in love since their freshman year at Sparta High School.
During the next 17 years, Bob Harris became one of the top insurance salesmen and, using both Mil and Bob’s income, they bought their dream home on Manitoe Island in the middle of Lake Mohawk. The Island had 31 houses served by a one-lane wooden bridge. The Harris home was built by the same builder who built a similar English Tudor for Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh following the loss of their baby.
The Lake Mohawk Country Club was a real estate development of the Arthur D. Crane Company, with very high security. The spring fed lake had nine miles of shoreline. There were three guard houses manned 24/7 by shotgun-armed, off-duty local police, or New Jersey State Patrol officers. The security plan was created by General Norman, Schwarzkopf’s father. The development had a beautiful nine-hole golf course with a separate club house, and 21 miles of private roads. If you lived at Lake Mohawk, you had arrived. Many of the neighbors were New York multi-millionaires who wanted a safe, casual place to raise their families, and did not want the fast lifestyle on Long Island. The Harris Family did not make it to even the bottom of the social register, but at Lake Mohawk that didn’t matter.
Homer and his best friend, Hans Schmidt, were partners in a 100-customer New Jersey Herald paper route, and saved their profits to buy a 13 ft. Penn Yan Swift runabout boat with a 22 horsepower, rope-start Evinrude outboard motor that was kept in the Harris boat house, because the Schmidt family did not have a lakefront home. In 1920, the Schmidt family immigrated to the USA following the Great War, and Hans’s dad became a home builder, while Frida Schmidt designed and sold custom wedding dresses. She was a wonderful cook. The Schmidt family spoke German at home and Homer began to pick up the language.
During the ninth grade at Sparta High School, Homer elected to take German for two reasons. First, he already had a head start with his vocabulary, and second, his teacher, Christine Costello, was a beautiful Italian blond widow from Northern Italy. Mrs. Costello had graduated from the University of Florence with a master’s degree in languages. Italy was on the allied side during the Great War, and when her