In Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. He presents evidence of "stay-behind" units in many European countries funded by illegal drug sales and counterfeit British bank notes, used not only to ward off possible invaders, but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks. Sure to be controversial, Operation Gladio connects the dots in ways the mainstream media often overlooks.

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Paul L. Williams, PhD (Photo by Patricia H. Williams)

Paul L. Williams, PhD, is a journalist and the author of Crescent Moon Rising, The Day of Islam, Osama's Revenge, The Al Qaeda Connection, and The Vatican Exposed, among other books. The winner of three first-place Keystone Press Awards for journalism, he has written articles for major news outlets, including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review. He has also served as a consultant for the FBI, editor and publisher of the Metro, and an adjunct professor of humanities at the University of Scranton.

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In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills of South Dakota, setting the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. Thieves' Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn by Terry Mort tells the little-known story of how Custer's exploratory mission, and discovery of gold, brought hordes of white prospectors to the Sioux's sacred grounds, trampling a treaty and inflaming conflict.  

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Terry Mort

Terry Mort has degrees in literature from Princeton University and the University of Michigan. After graduate school he served as an officer in the US Navy. He is the author of The Wrath of Cochise and The Hemingway Patrols, which was selected as the best of the month by Amazon in August 2009. He is also the author of five novels and a book on fly fishing. He has edited anthologies of Mark Twain, Jack London, and Zane Grey. 

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In August 1906 in the town of Brownsville, Texas, shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded.  Although no one involved was ever positively identified, President Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharged one hundred sixty-seven members of the black battalion on duty the night of the shooting. Taking on Theodore Roosevelt: How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American Politics, by Harry Lembeck investigates the controversial action of an otherwise much-lauded president and the challenge to his decision from a senator of his own party. As this thoroughly researched and engrossing narrative shows, the damage done to both Roosevelt's reputation and black support for the Republican Party lingers today.

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Harry Lembeck, a retired attorney, is a freelance writer and a recognized Theodore Roosevelt historian. He has spoken about Roosevelt at meetings and seminars of historical organizations and acted as a historical advisor for a PBS program on peonage called Slavery by Another Name. 

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