Bücher von Captain Eugene Ray Martin

This book is a collection of adventures that defined the cold war. The theme of some of these adventures is about how close we came to World War III with nuclear exchanges between China, Russia, and America. The results of some of those stories might have resulted in a non-nuclear war with Russia and America shooting at each other. Our NSA protagonist and his KGB girlfriend tie many of the stories together. All the adventures are fictional although they were based on actual events. This was a time when the world's greatest powers, Russia, America, and China were at conflicting ends politically and militarily. Both China and Russia felt it was necessary for them to occupy other countries. This colonization in their eyes was necessary for their very survival. America with her self-viewed position as the world's policemen tried to stop them.

Captain Sam is an experienced convoy commander and captain of a Mahan-class destroyer. He is responsible for thousands of men in warships and the merchant ships of this convoy that must get to England for that country to survive. The Germans had proved the master of the Atlantic in this war, this battle of the Atlantic. German submarines had sunk thousands of ships. Those ships carried desperately needed things for England, everything from food, medicines, and clothing. And naturally, things to make war-things needed to invade France and end the terror the Germans created all over Europe. This was the time of the war when the Allies finally had enough ships and aircraft to counter the Germans in the Atlantic. The Germans were still very formidable. The Germans were desperate to stop supplies from reaching England; otherwise, they knew it will get much worse for them.

President Roosevelt in 1941 sent the twenty-seven-year-old battleship Texas and her mini task force on an important mission to an American territory. Not to protect that territory, but to salvage their wealth before the Japanese can obtain that wealth and use it to build more weapons of war. Their primary goal was to avoid frightening or threating the Japanese, thus giving the Japanese an excuse to start a war. At that time the Japanese were rattling their sabers. The Americans expected the Japanese at any time to attack somewhere in Southeast Asia. The Japanese were in the midst of a multiyear attempt to colonize China. Because of the political intrigue, they had to secretly organize the expedition. They had to decide what minimum resources were available. It took time for political mechanisms to get started and for the military planners to organize the expedition. It had to be done right the first time. They will face frantic Japanese forces with overwhelming forces.