Part 1 – I Was Trained To Be A Spy by Helias Doundoulakis
August 11, 2010 by Xlibris
Filed under Featured Authors, Non-Fiction
I Was Trained To Be A Spy follows the story of an American-born boy who grew up in a small village on the Greek island of Crete. During his final year in high school, he witnesses the German invasion of the island as WWII began. At the age of eighteen, he joined a resistance group and supplied crucial information to the SOE, the arm of the English Intelligence Service. This group however is uncovered, resulting in their evacuation by the SOE, to Cairo.
There, Helias Doundoulakis was asked to join English Intelligence, only to pursue the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the fledgling American spy organization. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and was attached to the OSS’s SI or Secret Intelligence sector, where the author was trained for intelligence as well as defensive combat skills. After being oriented into a skilled “spy”, Doundoulakis was sent back to Salonica, Greece along with a Greek naval intelligence officer, and later set up a communications cell with a wireless radio he smuggled in, hidden inside a can of olive oil!
I Was Trained To Be A Spy is a heart-rendering account told in simple prose, of one young man’s spy training. He was the only American soldier in Salonica for a period of nine months, sending daily messages to OSS headquarters in Cairo on German troop movements. With these cryptic messages, many Axis ships were sunk, trains bombed, and thousand of Germans were killed. The author was decorated by the United States Army and the Greek government after the war, became a successful civil engineer, and holds the patent for the world’s largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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Part 10 – Everybody for Everybody by Samuel A. Nigro
August 6, 2010 by Xlibris
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In our final podcast episode with Samuel A. Nigro, author of Everybody for Everybody! Truth, Oneness, Good, and Beauty for Everyone’s Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Volume I & Volume 2, he tells us where we can find the book. He also says that to follow up Everybody for Everybody, he will not write another volume, but will instead enjoy retirement!
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Part 4 – The Demihuman Archives by Marc Mattaliano
In this podcast episode author Marc Mattaliano gives us his take on what’s wrong with fantasy and sci-fi books today, and tells us why his new novel, The Demihuman Archives, is different.
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Part 9 – Everybody for Everybody by Samuel A. Nigro
July 29, 2010 by Xlibris
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In this podcast episode Samuel A. Nigro, author of Everybody for Everybody! Truth, Oneness, Good, and Beauty for Everyone’s Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Volume I & Volume 2, tells us this book is, in fact, for everyone. Nigro thinks it may challenge liberals whose view might be out of line with his, but he feels it’s written in a way that will appeal to the masses.
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Part 3 – The Demihuman Archives by Marc Mattaliano
Author Marc Mattaliano tells us about his writings before his new book The Demihuman Archives. He also talks about events and hobbies in his childhood that helped shaped his writing style.
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Part 5 – The Value of a Homemaker by Patricia Zona
July 23, 2010 by Xlibris
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In this final podcast with author Patricia Zona, she touches on myriad topics that are brought up in her new book, The Value of a Homemaker: Corporate greed and the strain it puts on a marriage, violence on television and the movies, our broken legal system, especially in divorce cases, and finally her desire to send a positive message with this book that will help readers better their lives.
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Part 8 – Everybody for Everybody by Samuel A. Nigro
July 23, 2010 by Xlibris
Filed under Non-Fiction
Samuel A. Nigro, author of Everybody for Everybody! Truth, Oneness, Good, and Beauty for Everyone’s Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Volume I & Volume 2, tells us how his career as a psychiatrist influenced the material in Everybody for Everybody!
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Part 5 – The Adventures of Button Broken Tail by Richard Leech
In the final podcast episode with Richard Leech, author of the children’s book The Adventures of Button Broken Tail, Leech talks about a lifetime spent with all animals, not just dogs!
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Part 5 – Rogue Progeny by L. Rolland Williams
In the final podcast episode with L. Rolland Williams, author of Rogue Progeny, he gives us a sneak peak at the sequel of Rogue Progeny.
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Part 2 – The Demihuman Archives by Marc Mattaliano
In this podcast episode The Demihuman Archives author Marc Mattaliano tells about the research he did in order to set the story in Dublin, and talks about the unique timeline of the book.
