In 2003, Major William Edwards and Lt. Col. Robert P. Walters of the 165th Military Intelligence Battalion were given the near-impossible task of improving the U.S. Army's security posture at Abu Ghraib prison under unfathomable conditions. With input from officers who served with them, their candid firsthand accounts of life at the notorious prison reveal unpublished details of the human devastation that took place there, along with unexpected glimpses of humanity.

Inside Abu Ghraib: Memoirs of Two U.S. Military Intelligence Officers

Biographies & Memoirs

Edwards, William

Zanon, Paul

Walters Jr., Robert P.

Leaders & Notable People

McFarland

The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver: David Harrison Beckett, My Autobiography

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life, and work for all his adult life. He brushed with death on more than one occasion—such as when called in to assist when the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 and claimed 852 lives. Among the depths of despair, there are lighter moments, including treasure hunting in the Philippines, almost clinching a contract to salvage the bursar's safe from the Titanic, and surviving a 24-hour typhoon which brought 80-foot waves crashing down on his boat. The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver is gritty, sometimes comical, and offers a unique glimpse into a life at sea, much of it at the bottom.

Beckett, David Harrison

Pitch Publishing

Sinner and Saint is an incredible story of transformation and redemption. After serving four prison sentences between the ages of 18 and 24, Martin Murray beat adversity to become Britain's best middleweight, and a four-time world title challenger. Still active at world level, he also serves as a mentor and youth worker.

Sinner and Saint: The Inspirational Story of Martin Murray

Murray, Martin

Pitch Publishing Ltd

A member of the USA's stellar 1984 Olympic boxing team, Paul Banke then scaled the heights as a professional to become world champion in 1990. Unfortunately, throughout his career, he was at the mercy of his secret mistress—drugs. As part of the celebrity slipstream, Banke often had free access to heroin, crystal meth, and cocaine. Best remembered for his epic trilogy with Daniel Zaragoza, drugs overtook him and Banke soon became a forgotten champion. Shortly after retiring in 1993, he was homeless and destitute. Having not eaten for three days, Banke found himself lying in a dumpster in Vegas, ecstatic at finding a partially consumed cheeseburger. Arrested for grand theft auto in 1995, he was urged in jail to take an HIV test, due to sharing needles. He had contracted full-blown AIDS. Miraculously, after three decades of drug abuse, Banke turned his life around in September 2014 and became clean and sober. Now once again warmly embraced by the boxing fraternity, he shares his story to inspire and deter those on a similar path.

Staying Positive: The Story of ‘The Real’ Paul Banke

Sports & Outdoors

Banke, Paul

Biographies

The Hard Way

Hardcastle, Paul

Arts & Literature

Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Ltd

“The narrative describes the arc of Tapia’s professional life in economical but effective detail…Zanon knows the sport well enough to keep these bouts intriguing…with a good deal of momentum and little sentimentality. The resulting portrait is that of a deeply weak and flawed man who could nevertheless exhibit a real zest for living. A gritty, engrossing, and concise account of a boxer’s meteoric career and tortured personal life.”―Kirkus Reviews
 "If I wake up, I know I'm a success. The day I don't wake up, I know I'll be home. I have one foot on this earth and one foot has crossed over. I didn’t just die, I lived.”―Johnny Tapia ...the ghost of Johnny Tapia lives on
“Mi Vida Loca” (My Crazy Life) was Johnny Tapia’s nickname and his reason for being. Haunted by the brutal murder of his beloved mother when he was a child, fighting and drugs gave him the escape he craved―and he did both with gusto. In The Ghost Of Johnny Tapia, Paul Zanon, with the help of Tapia’s widow Teresa, tells the harrowing and unforgettable story of a boxing genius who couldn’t, in the end, defeat his demons.
The Ghost of Johnny Tapia is the second in the Hamilcar Noir series. Hamilcar Noir is "Hard-Hitting True Crime" that blends boxing and true crime, featuring riveting stories captured in high-quality prose, with cover art inspired by classic pulp novels.
From the Foreword: "Johnny had incredible heart, was such a sweet man, but was also tormented. He had two sides to him. The sweetest, nicest guy, but then the other side which could probably kill you. He was tortured with his addictions, but Johnny was always pure emotion in that ring."―Sammy ‘The Red Rocker’ Hagar, Musician

The Ghost of Johnny Tapia (Hamilcar Noir True Crime Series)

Hamilcar Publications

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