Donagh Bracken: 13 books

As the divided nation threw its sons into civil war, the home front demanded to know what was happening. Newspapers, North and South, responded by sending special war correspondents into the battlefront with the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy. They reported what they saw and, in many...

You have never been better than you are now! That is the premise of Career of Gold. Seniors and Boomers have experience, wisdom and emotional intelligence at levels never before realized. At this point in their lives they are better equipped to make decisions than at any time in life. Due to the information...

vvThe image of the FBI Special Agent, since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, has been carefully crafted as being polite, clean shaven young men and pleasantly smiling women whose hallmarks are polite words and good manners. Author Jack Owens goes behind that facade and shares the human side of the FBI....

The author led the U.S. Army into the modern age of computer warfare developing portals through which avenues of digitalization eventually flowed to civilian use. A graduate of West Point, he rose to the rank of Commanding General of the U.S. Army's Signal Corps developing technology used by all the...

During the American Revolution the colonial troops endured bitter winter weather with inadequte military provisions, wore tattered clothing and suffered from a scarcity of food. There spirit ws severely challengedThe driving force to overcome those challenges  was their belief in General George Washington....

The reader is given a rare view of the operations of the Vatican in the diplomatic world and some fascinating sidelights into the Vatican archives such as the role Benjamin Franklin played in the selection of the first Catholic Bishop in the United States and what the Pope actually intended to do...

The penetrating look at the violence that swept prisons in the 1980 s and 1990 s and the organizational structure mirroring the Mafia that erupted in them. The inmates had to make a choice between joining a gang that offered protection, friendships, financial rewards, access to drugs and other contraband...

Bluebeard is a fast paced, well-written story documenting the history behind the reign of terror imposed on Europe by Gilles de Rais, the infamous Bluebeard. The author brings the reader into the castles, pageants, battles and dungeons of medieval Europe to explore the enigma that was the life of...

The U.S. a collection of cities serviced by outlying farms and producers is amazingly transformed into a nation serviced, by a national food production industry to meet the needs of fighting a world war. The armed services, 350,000 strong at the war's start, quickly grew to 11,000,000 men and women...

Many of the same people who inhabited the political jungles of Washington, D.C. during Watergate are still in power today. In their constant jockeying for political power and influence on public opinion, they foster the same ill will and distrust of the FBI they have for 30 years. Their political...

VDuring the Korean War Presidents Truman and Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons as a means of driving the North Koreans to the negotiating table. To this end, nuclear weapons were shipped to Guam and the U.S. Army shipped an atomic cannon to Korea for usage in infantry support. The actual...

The driving force behind this work was a shared commitment to explore the newfound secrets to a better life after living a life of urban terrorism in Chicago's violent ways, Their desire to help the at risk youth of Chicago, the place where street gangs rule,gave the authors a reason to wake up each...

It starts in 1895 in San Francisco, Sully introduces himself and explains how he's come to write this story after 32 years traveling through America's Old West and experiencing its greatest characters and events His story starts as a youth. He is William Garvey Sullivan, a sixteen year old...