When I was a kid, just after World War II, the Trotters came to our town, Bellingham, Washington, every year. At that time, before being reduced to a silly sideshow of clowns, they were the best basketball team in the world. They beat the NBA champions, the Minneapolis Lakers, three games to two at the…

3.      Volume Three of this book series is titled The Grand Alliance and details Germany’s eastward expansion in an attempt to conquer the Mediterranean region and even threaten Russia. Eventually, England allied with Russia to halt Germany’s advancement eastward. Russia and the West became unlikely allies in their effort to stop Hitler’s march into the…