History is a slippery thing. While it pretends to provide a somewhat clear picture of past events, the veracity of written and oral histories is suspect as not being entirely complete nor true and faithful in reporting what actually transpired in the past. The reality of the phrase, “History is written by the victor,” frequently skews what ends up being recorded. Thus, although it has exceptional, rare shining moments, what passes for history throughout the ages is more or less an artifici...

When I was much younger, attending high school, in Bountiful, Utah, I read a fascinating story by novelist James Thurber, entitled The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It was delightful reading and was made into a popular movie of the same name starring Danny Kaye… one of my longtime favorite movies of all time.I was thumbing through books on my bookshelf the other day when I came across the Thurber classic, and the thought occurred to me to attempt to write a short novel with a similar...

Leaders and managers face tremendous pressure to keep their organizations moving forward successfully. It can seem like an impossible task amid economic uncertainty and hyper-competition.The roles of leader and manager tug us in opposite directions: managers seek stability and predictability, and leaders usually opt for turbulence and change. With so many companies asking their best employees to be both leaders and managers, it’s no wonder that so much of the business world is dysf...

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENTThis book examines theories and concepts of organizational leadership and management as seen through the lens of the New Sciences—relativity, quantum theory, chaos, complexity, and fuzzy set theory. The focus of the book is on how to lead change in rapidly-evolving, organizational environments characteristic of the corporate world today. Readers will develop a functional working knowledge of effective leadership in an organizational climate where stability ...

FANTASY Benjamin Lockhart worked in the aerospace industry in Florida for almost four decades. But all of the years being tossed around in a high-stress, industry environment had taken its toll. Lockhart was physically tired and emotionally exhausted, and ready for something a little less stressful. And so he and his wife, Martha, picked up stakes and moved to South-Central Pennsylvania, where they purchased a small farm property and prepared to live out the remainder of their days in the ...

The rustic Borough of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1751 as the county seat of Cumberland County. This story begins with the birth of one of the early denizens of Carlisle in 1790, not that long after the borough’s founding. His name was David Lewis… known and remembered in the annals of Carlisle as David Robber Lewis. You might ask… Who was David Robber Lewis? Well… plain and simply… he was a scoundrel…. a scoundrel through and through. Although some folks think of him as a made-...

In the early 2000s in a top secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history.As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins testing the new time technology usi...

Six months ago, Colonel Barton Stauffer retired from activity duty to spend more time with his family. Now he has been reactivated and assigned to lead a team of time travelers in a top-secret research facility buried deep beneath Carlisle Barracks to survey the ancient prehistoric past stretching into antediluvian times, a period for which there are no written records. Our understanding of this time period is based entirely on conjecture, flavored by legend, mythology, oral history, and m...

America was beset with a widespread polio epidemic in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Milton Jeffries, was diagnosed with the disease in his early teens, when it became evident from his coughing and difficulty breathing, that the disease was advanced and life-threatening. His mother rushed him to a polio treatment facility, where he spent the next several years stretched out in an iron lung. Many polio victims of that era spent the greater portion of their lives in iron lungs – Many of the...

Some people mistakenly believe that the earliest reported UFO crash in the United States occurred at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. It did not. There are several other reported incidents about earlier UFO crashes in the literature. One of the earliest reported crashes occurred fully fifty years before Roswell in Aurora, Texas, in 1897. This story was suggested by a news article that first appeared in the Dallas Morning News in 1897, which describes the crash of an unidentified aircraft into...

In a top-secret research facility buried deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, a Department of Defense project has developed the ability to travel through time.The projects primary purpose is to set up a defensive posture against a hostile power that could also develop time travel and use it against the United States. Colonel Barton Stauffer is assigned to lead an elite team on a parallel missionone sent in pursuit of humanitys lost history. In their quest to recover lost k...

Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South, 1992), here returns with Lee at the Alamo, a look at what the great military leader might have done under only slightly different circumstances.In the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his nati...