My Books

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  The MacHugh Memoirs

  Piper and adventurer Roderick Gaspard ‘Rory’ MacHugh tangles with Napoleon Bonaparte, The Duke of Wellington and Davy Crockett. Captured by the Blackfoot Indian tribe when he's 13, Rory learns to become a warrior. After a daring escape from prison, he joins the British Army, and then is seconded to the Secret Service. Despite a near-fatal weakness for the ladies, MacHugh travels from the plains of North America to cities and deserts on four continents. MacHugh returns forty years later to resume life as a Blackfoot. Or does he?...read more

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  Black War-Bonnet

  In this, the earliest known volume of The MacHugh Memoirs, the traumatized thirteen-year-old Rory MacHugh is taken captive by a band of Blackfoot. His tragic and strange life becomes even stranger as he matures into a Blackfoot Warrior — until the day he solves the tragic mystery that forces him to return to the whiteman’s world to seek vengeance....read more

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  A Secret Of The Sphinx

  Spring of 1798: Young Rory MacHugh leaves his Blackfoot World for an Ancient World. There determination, versatility, and several unique friends enable him to survive many new lives -- a British sailor, an Egyptian Mameluke, a convict, a Secret Agent, a French Grenadier, a Highland soldier, and a forbidden lover in an Egyptian court. But the most devastating is his first encounter with the man destined plunge the world into war and to become Rory’s own personal demon, the young General Napoleon Bonaparte...read more

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  The Assassins

  Rory returns to Paris in 1803 as bodyguard for the mysterious Count Méhée de la Touche, There Rory’s affair with the glamorous Duchess of Abrantès lands him in the notorious mountaintop prison, the fortress of Bitche. After a unique escape Rory becomes embroiled in several assassination attempts aimed at his very personal enemy, the Emperor Napoleon....read more

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  The Fugitives

  Lieutenant Rory MacHugh, the British Army’s only Blackfoot Highlander, is about to depart the fortress of Almeida when one of the greatest man-made disasters in history turns him into a fugitive. Fate brings MacHugh together with a small band of fugitives, each with his own secret. Joined by a bewitching and mysterious Spanish widow, their perils increase until only three remain to take a vital role in the epic Battle of Bussaco....read more

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  On Secret Service

  It is 1810, shortly after the British victory over the French invaders of Portugal. During the winter lull, MacHugh is sent to London to track down a beautiful French spy. Things do not work out as planned and he ends up kidnapped and imprisoned in France. He soon encounters, among others, the notorious Joseph Fouché (head of Napoleon’s Secret Police), the future King George IV, and the Duke of Wellington. MacHugh even finds himself embroiled in American plans to invade Canada....read more

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  The Suicide Battalion

  Meet the men of the 46th Canadian Infantry (South Saskatchewan) -- the raw recruits who would earn a reputation as the finest fighting soldiers of the First World War. ...read more

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  GAS! The Battle for Ypres, 1915

  The true story is told by the front-line soldiers of several nations...read more

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  AMIENS: Dawn of Victory

  It was the decisive battle of World War I. German commander Erich Ludendorff called it "the black day of the German army." Many authors have stated that it was the beginning of the end of the great conflict. And yet, until now, no book has been published on the climactic battle at Amiens....read more

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  A Piper's World

  A Piper’s World contains 99 tunes from around the world, including Scotland, Ireland, North America, Europe and Asia. ...read more