Hazardous History: Real People, Real Events During the Heroic Ages of the United States and Britain

Author: Pierre V. Comtois

ISBN 978-1-947532-10-6 (softcover)

320 pages

Warning! Anyone suffering from acute retrophobia (fear of the past) should get their doctor’s permission before reading this book! It is not for the faint of heart, radical feminists or those easily offended by traditional values of honor, courage, and ambition.

Among these pages you will meet soldiers, statesmen, explorers, and ne’er do wells. You will be there when armies clash, empires flourish, and men compete. In short, you will encounter real history and real heroes. Men who helped build Western Civilization and expand the frontiers of knowledge but who did it in often messy ways that do not conform with today’s PC values. Here, you will witness little know but key battles of the American Revolution and Civil War, America’s battles with Japan and Germany, the struggle for the American West, and adventure and danger in the far-flung British Empire.

So beware readers who need trigger warnings, fear microaggressions, who are afraid of the past, or deny the truth! But if you’re a reader who is curious, hungers for the facts, and is bold enough to embrace history, then by golly, you’re in for a rollicking good read!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pierre Comtois has had a number of books in print, including Goat Mother and Others, published by Chaosium Fiction in 2015, and Marvel Comics in the 1980s: An Issue by Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon, published in 2015 by Twomorrows Pubs. Earlier volumes include Marvel Comics in the 1960s and 1970s. The author has also had numerous short stories appear in various collections and magazines over a decades long career, including novels: A Well Ordered Universe, Strange Company and Sometimes a Warm Rain Falls; and anthologies: The Way the Future Was and The Portable Pierre V. Comtois. In non-fiction, Comtois has published Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor and has had articles appear in such magazines as World War II, America's Civil War, Wild West, and Military History. Upcoming novels include Scheduled for Extinction, to be published by Desert Breeze in late 2017, and Talismanic, to be published in early 2018 by Rogue Publishing.