This work is simply the crazy thinks of one man's life starting at age eight in 1948 and continuing to retirement in 2004. Probably not much different that many of you readers. The thoughts start in a small Midwestern town where growing up was strictly biological and without direction or purpose. A place where things were done because that was what you did. A time when everything seemed predestined. The stories were gathered by traveling on the roots of lightning strikes as they formed spider webs across the sky: by flowing with Kandinsky strokes down his canvas; from trekking the aortas to...

This work is simply the crazy thinks of one man's life starting at age eight in 1948 and continuing to retirement in 2004. Probably not much different that many of you readers. The thoughts start in a small Midwestern town where growing up was strictly biological and without direction or purpose. A place where things were done because that was what you did. A time when everything seemed predestined. The stories were gathered by traveling on the roots of lightning strikes as they formed spider webs across the sky: by flowing with Kandinsky strokes down his canvas; from trekking the aortas to...

To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.
ENDGAME, 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Through their ground-level movements, Stafford traces the elaborate web of events that led to the war's real resolution: the...

"The Silent Game" traces the history of spy writers and their fiction from creator William Le Queux, of the Edwardian age, to John le CarrE, of the Cold War era. David Stafford reveals the connections between fact and fiction as seen in the lives of writers with experience in intelligence, including John Buchan, Compton Mackenzie, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming, and Graham Greene. Le Queux used his spy fiction as xenophobic propaganda before and after World War I, and le CarrE's novels have provided reflections on the Cold War and the decline of Britain's influence. Anxieties about the decline...