American Merchant Marine Veterans

2008-06-30 12:57:59

I wish I'd had more time at the annual convention in Portland of the American Merchant Marine Veterans, of which I’m a proud member. I wish I could hang out more with these guys. Every one of these World War II merchant mariners that I meet, I...

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SS Ohio Inducted into National Maritime Hall of Fame

2008-03-14 15:36:39

The legendary tanker SS Ohio, whose wooden decks are the stage for some of the scenes in my book “At All Costs,” was inducted into the National Maritime Hall of Fame at a luncheon ceremony in New York on Saturday, January 26. The Hall of...

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Top Ten Reasons

2007-03-01 09:21:48

TOP 10 REASONS Why You Should Buy the Book At All Costs (As taken from the first 10 reviews posted on Amazon.com by readers of At All Costs, by Sam Moses. These are actual quotes. You could look it up.) 10....

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Note to Booksellers

2007-02-01 08:58:31

In 1942, the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth. Hitler needed Malta as a stepping-stone to get to the Persian oil. To Churchill, Malta was the crux of the war. "At All Costs"...

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Note to Librarians

2007-01-01 08:54:14

For most of the two intense years it took to research and write "At All Costs," there were some 200 history books, biographies and memoirs piled around my desk. Nowhere among them did I find the story told here, about the importance of the...

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Chapter 4: Fire Down Below

2006-12-10 17:19:44

Fred Larsen’s Irish grandfather, the woodcarver Christopher Melia, and William Russell Grace, who founded Grace Line after emigrating from Ireland, were about the same age and had the same eye for beauty. Had they lived long enough to see...

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Chapter 3: Loose Cannon

2006-12-01 07:35:38

At twenty-eight, Lieutenant Reinhard Hardegen, a German U-boat captain, was a loose cannon. He carried unchecked ambition and relentless intensity along with his war wounds—a short leg and bleeding stomach—from the aviation...

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Random House Releases "At All Costs"

2006-11-06 16:58:43

“Thrillingly told and beautifully researched, AT ALL COSTS is not just the against-all-odds story of the saving of Malta, but also of how the fate of nations can turn on the personal bravery of two ordinary men.” —Robert...

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