The storm clouds over the western democracies since 1979 strikingly resemble the frightening 1930s climate that forewarned the horrors of World War II. Then as now, detached people and their anti-war leaders were swayed by wishful thinking that faraway troublemakers could be reasoned with and that they would keep their distance. Delaying until it was almost too late, democracys citizens paid a terrible price in the 1940s for their leaders naive tardiness. At Least I Know Im Free takes a what-if look at how the decision not to fight by Western leaders could have cost Americans their basic rights and freedoms.
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Bill Grayson is a former Intelligence Officer leading Signals Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and Operations Security units in Europe and Vietnam. Following his Air Force career, he is a Defense and Homeland Security consultant securing federal agency systems, performing special tasks for the White House, Air Force One, JCS, NATO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. For Homeland Security, Bill supported Coast Guard port vulnerability studies on three coasts. With BA and MS degrees, he is a Command and Staff College graduate, and a student of six languages. Certified in Computer Systems Security and Operations Security, Bill is also a Communications Security expert.
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The World As it Might Have Been,
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Lee Greenwood's song "God Bless the USA" provides both the title of this interesting book and the lyrics which generate a thought provoking look at how our world might have changed if WWII had gone differently. With his usual attention to detail and very intense grasp of serious aspects of war fighting and political processes, Author Grayson has put together a rather compelling scenario for a far difference result from America's war with Japan and Germany. The first great challenge the reader must face is that of suspending knowledge of the actual outcome of WWII. Once past that, the author has created a sequence of momentous events that weave both known important persons and invented players and their decisions and actions into a certainly plausible novel. The alternative history plays upon the actual or suspected ideology of such luminaries as the Socialist Norman Thomas as President, "America Firster" Charles Lindberg as Vice President and pacifist Jeanette Rankin as Secretary of War. The author then composes his novel by giving life and direction to the major antagonists and protagonists of the day, with Hitler, Von Ribbentrop, Stalin, Hirohito, Churchill, Roosevelt and their minions all involved in both actual and alternative scenarios. Strategic and tactical aspects of this history are described, with nuclear weapons serving as in important catalyst for much of the alternative outcome. What makes this book capture the reader's interest is the constant leavening of real events and detailed explanations of developments which give a sense of reality to events which are demonstrably different from what we know to be true. This effort is an easy read and provides some serious points to ponder, while at the same time a historian might find some of the concoctions a bit simplistic or beyond reasonable likelihood. The author does a particularly important service for the less initiated by providing an Annex which compares the actual events with the alternative events, with discussion of why the alternative has been posed. Altogether, this is a good piece of literary work and recommended reading.
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