PLEASE CLICK THE TITLE

BLOG JACK RAGSDALE

Gentle reader: In life, I’ve met wisdom in others, and folly in myself. Please share with me some of the real life I’ve known – and the visions I’ve chased with my pen.

JACK'S VOYAGE TO THE UNKNOWN

My sea career began in September, 1935 with the S. S. Chincha of the American South African Line. The vessel was constructed at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1912. In 1935 she was commanded by Captain Arthur Lee, a handsome Englishman highly talented in all matters of the sea. I suspect the Chincha was built for the Grace Line.

AMERICA'S SPLENDID LITTLE WARS

Why is America so constantly at war? Why do American presidents seek out enemies, launch campaigns of lies to vilify small countries, then waste thousands of American lives in a vain struggle with straw men?
AMERICA'S SPLENDID LITTLE WARS is the story of some of America's cruel and unrewarding wars--mostly against those little able to resist.
Amazon May 20

STOUGH BEERS HAS NO FATHER

A Civil War Novel by Jack Ragsdale
Stough is the story of young people struggling and coping with tough times--he and his friends in the North and South. It is also the story of cruel slavery and women, with few opportunities, denied education--having to make their own living in the worst of times. They refuse to give up their lives. Amazon
Excerpt from the first chapter