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BIRDS IN HAND: RCA and a Communications Revolution In the 1970s, the cable television industry was transformed - not by cables, but by communications satellites flying more than 23,000 miles above the earth. These satellites enabled a programming revolution that made household names out of HBO, CNN, ESPN, Ted Turner and Pat Robertson. The common thread in the emergence of these global brands was a fleet of satellites built and operated by RCA, which extended the reach of cable TV in ways that previously were unimaginable. This revolution was made possible by the technologists who built and...

The Forgotten War Begins -- A Novel of the Sea War in Korea Nonstop action set in the actual events of the times It is 1950. World War II is over, the nation is at peace and the US armed forces are drastically cut back in size. The new, bomber-centered, nuclear-armed Air Force is now king and the Army, and especially Navy forces, are cut to the bone. Unexpectedly, 100,000 North Korean troops cross the border into South Korea driving the lightly equipped South Korean Army down the peninsula. President Truman, with United Nations backing, pledges to help South Korea and directs the US Navy to...

On June 25, 1950 the North Korean Peoples Army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea. The United Nations, primarily the United States, came to South Korea's aid. Because America had largely dismantled its Army and Navy after World War II, the Navy needed to quickly take 110 WW-II destroyers out of mothballs, return them to fleet service and staff them with crews. Many young men answered their country's call and joined the Navy -- among them was a young music school student named Archie T. Miller. This book depicts his sailor's story of adventures in the "Tin Can" Navy. Plucked...