A Captain of the Gate

A Captain of the Gate

John Birmingham

Language: English

Pages: 28

ISBN: B005WLQ7Y0

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A fabulous story in the 'Without Warning' trilogy. A 'What if' story of the Cold War ... a small piece of alternate history of the period told via a biography of one of its players, Lieutenant Branch McKinnon, an adventurer in a different post-WWII world of American isolationism.

The Outcasts (Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1)

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)

The Fire King (The Invisible Order, Book 2)

Day of Atonement (Rogue Angel, Book 54)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So for all Americans when he said, ‘When these men fought, they saved the world.’ And so the world comes to pay homage. On an unusually bleak October day one year and one month after the atrocity of 9-11, with a cold rain threatening, and an ill-tempered, contrary wind jagging through the long rows of headstones, a line of mourners wound down from the small, tree-covered knoll in Section 1 of the Arlington National Cemetery, a short walk from the grand colonnade of the Memorial Amphitheater. At.

McKinnon was the first American he had ever seen in the flesh, the first and last he ever met in close combat, and, according to the stooped and frail grandfather who had long ago led the defence of the Emporer’s inner sanctum, a man of giri. The personal story of Branch McKinnnon does not begin with their meeting of course. He arrived in the world in 1925, born at a quarter past five in the afternoon, following a twenty-hour labor, during which his mother, Elsina Grace McKinnon, nee Wilmott,.

Half bit through one of her husband Lester’s old leather belts. Baby Branch was a big boy at 10.3 pounds, and he took his own good time in getting here. He enjoyed an unremarkable, if straightened childhood, his daddy always managing to find just enough work to see the family, which soon enough grew to three children, through the hardest days of the Great Depression. We’ll return to Macon, Georgia, in due course, and spend a little time with the McKinnon clan, but it is Branch’s public life, his.

Spread through his platoon that the Navy had developed massive ‘rocket barges as big as aircraft carriers’ but carrying no planes, only hundreds of V2-style missiles. ‘I don’t believe it for a minute myself,’ he wrote to his sister on Christmas Eve 1945, ‘but the boys have been very excited this week by talk that the whole show might be called off because Halsey and Nimitz are planning to steal MacArthur’s thunder by parking hundreds of these things offshore and just raining them down on top of.

Spread through his platoon that the Navy had developed massive ‘rocket barges as big as aircraft carriers’ but carrying no planes, only hundreds of V2-style missiles. ‘I don’t believe it for a minute myself,’ he wrote to his sister on Christmas Eve 1945, ‘but the boys have been very excited this week by talk that the whole show might be called off because Halsey and Nimitz are planning to steal MacArthur’s thunder by parking hundreds of these things offshore and just raining them down on top of.

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