Legerdemain is the true story of a young undercover operative for the U.S. Air Force during the Truman-Eisenhower Administrations who was sent on a mission to wrest French Morocco from the French colonial system and bring it into the American sphere of influence. The purpose was to insure Moroccan air bases for the Strategic Air Command which was vital for a retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union. The story underlines President Truman's disregard for French friendship and is willing to risk it for the sake of U.S. security. The disregard is further illustrated by the secret storage of atom bombs in French Morocco which was completely unknown to Charles DeGaulle, President of France. The story unveils the working of undercover operatives of Britains MI6, Israel's Mossad, America's CIA, France's Security Services, the Soviet Union's KGB as well as the French Foreign Legion set against the exotic backdrop of the alleyways, coffee houses and bathhouses of Casablanca, the exotic fairs of Marrakech, the settings of privilege in Cairo and the mountainside villages of Cypress. The author's experience also takes him through Berber villages in the Atlas Mountains and Foreign Legion outposts on the apron of the Sahara. Through it all, the author unfolds Islamic thinking of that period and sets it as a prelude to the affairs of the Twenty First Century.

Legerdemain: The President's Secret Plan, The Bomb and What The French Never Knew

History

James J. Heaphey

Americas

History Publishing Co LLC

Legerdemain is the true story of a young undercover operative for the U.S. Air Force during the Truman-Eisenhower Administrations who was sent on a mission to wrest French Morocco from the French colonial system and bring it into the American sphere of influence. The purpose was toinsure Moroccan air bases for the Strategic Air Command which was vital for a retaliatory strikeagainst the Soviet Union. The story underlinesPresident Truman's disregard for French friendship and is willing to risk it for the sake of U.S.security. The disregard is further illustrated by the secret storage of atom bombs in French Morocco which was completely unknown to Charles DeGaulle, President of France. The story unveils the working of undercover operatives of Britains MI6, Israel's Mossad, America's CIA, France's Security Services, the Soviet Union's KGB as well as the FrenchForeign Legion set against the exotic backdrop of the alleyways, coffee houses and bathhouses of Casablanca, the exotic fairs of Marrakech, the settings of privilege in Cairo and the mountainside villages of Cypress. The author's experience also takes him through Berber villages in the Atlas Mountains and Foreign Legion outposts on the apronof the Sahara. Through it all, the author unfolds Islamic thinking of that period and sets it as a prelude to the affairs of the Twenty First Century.

Legerdemain: The President's Secret Plan, The Bomb, And What The French Never Knew

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The story of the way the FBI was forced to change its methods of operation, from the traditional, media-shy Bureau of J.Edgar Hoover, to the technologically savvy and media friendly organization, necessary to capture Theodore Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber.This book provides a fascinating look into the Bureau itself and the three individuals charged with leading the investigation and capture of the notorious terrorist after the Bureau s 18 years of frustration

UNABOMBER: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski

Jim Freeman

Terry Turchie

Max Noel

Criminal Law

The author starts with the seismic breakup of the continent in the ice age, illustrates how happenings in Europe and even Asia, shaped the nation's development into the United States. He pauses in Book One at the Texans defeat at the Alamo and how that defeat had the long term effect in the U.S. development.

Moments That Made America: From The Ice Age To The Alamo

Arts & Photography

Armstrong, Geoff

History & Criticism

War is a cause and blood is the ink used to write the markings on the wall. Blood spills on both sides - those who are innocent and our enemies as well. There will be casualties determined by providence, leaving us unable to choose who stays and who goes. We live by a set of rules and principles that not only govern our longevity in the underworld, but shapes who we are as a player in the game of chances. Death is synonymous with the culture we live in; blood is only repaid in blood. 
 We are Penumbras, mere fractions of a shadow. But when united, we become one full and complete shadow, absorbing the magical and spiritual strength emulated by a total eclipse. And when Penumbras die, they become the Blood of my Shadow. -Mona Moore, Prsident of the Sheridan Syndicate

Blood on My Shadow: The Rise and Fall of the Syndicate (End of the Syndicate Book)

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Jovon

United States

There is something about "Take me out to the ball game" that has lured people to baseball games as a way to create history and memories. It is no surprise, then, that family and cultural ties have been part of baseball at the professional level for eons. That has led to some interesting combinations on and off the diamond.
Fathers and sons, brothers, in-laws, cousins, uncles and nephews...these are some of the "brother" combinations that have played major league baseball or been involved in some capacity since the first league was formed. Some have played together, others generations apart. Some enjoyed long Hall of Fame careers, others made one appearance.
Regardless of what teams they played for or when they played they have created interesting moments, set numerous records, and left unique memories. Their stories, some heartwarming, some bizarre, all intriguing, are the essence of this book.
Brothers in Baseball is a classic collection of anecdotes that bring to life forgotten side notes of the game that has united so many people across the world. It is as interesting as the history of baseball itself.

Brothers In Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Sharp, Arthur G.

Baseball

. In 1967, an eager 30-year-old psychotherapist named Gibbs Williams was offered a job treating heroin addicts at an innovative therapeutic community in lower Manhattan called Odyssey House. What followed over the next seventeen months represents one of the most harrowing and illuminating journeys a young professional can experience at the beginning of his career, due - in large part- to Odyssey's brilliant, pioneering, inscrutable, and mercurial founder and Director, (both a lawyer and psychiatrist). Williams documents his personal and professional Odyssey at Odyssey House in a new book that is both a fascinating look back and an important mirror on some of the most vexing problems our society faces today.

Smack In The Middle: My Turbulent Time Treating Heroin Addicts at Odyssey House

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Samberg, Joel

Williams Ph D, Gibbs

Addiction & Recovery

The author conveys two major messages here. "First, this is a fast look at the chaos that confronted our country during the late '60's and early '70's. Whether you witnessed one of these many events yourself, or whether you read about it, my expectation is that you will discover numerous new and meaningful details within every chapter. I hope you find it entertaining.But there is a second and more ominous takeaway from this review. America may be on the precipice of another season of cultural upheaval. Elements are in place that could cause a more cataclysmic shift than ever before. A cultural "Chinook" could take on new meaning for everyone.
If we learned anything from the '60's and '70's, it was that anger and protests do not in and of themselves bring about worthwhile change. Civilized dialog must replace the heated rhetoric of debate. One of the greatest legacies of our country is that whenever we have faced a crisis, we have applied mental and natural resources to uncover a solution."

Revolution and Renaissance

Hauser, Daniel Forbes

In a common struggle for freedom, one for blacks and one for Ireland, Tony Small and Lord Fitzgerald are more inseparable friends than master and servant for seventeen years before Lord Fitzgerald is captured and murdered by the British. Tony and his Irish wife Julie continue their devotion to Lord Edward's widow Pamela after she flees to Belgium. The Smalls move to London where Tony dies around 1804.By bringing to light the story of remarkable figures in eighteenth-century American, Irish, Canadian, English, and French history, the book is unequaled as a record of mutual respect and devotion between two men that begins on the level battle ground at Eutaw Springs. It also creates an account of African Americans not as mere slaves or free black men and women who do manual labor, but as soldiers and patriots of the highest order to help establish the new republic.

Fortune's Bond

Black, Robert Ray

This book is a polemical historical narrative based on past American Indian depredations, especially the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe. It primarily concentrates on the period from 1850 until 1866

Warrior Culture: The Indian Wars and Depredations

Osborne, Edward

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