Literati!
Dr. Stan S. Katz is a man of many interests and talents. His love of books led him to open a used/antiquarian bookstore in Southern California, an elephant graveyard where old and discarded books could die in dignity or get new life in the hands of a reader who didn’t mind a few bruised edges.
One afternoon an old suitcase wandered into his store that had the smell of old books and history, and, without opening it to inspect the contents, Stan bought it. When he got around to prying it open, the contents astounded him.
Here were the personal letters, photos, documents, remnants of a journal of the most famous man you never heard of, Colonel Sidney Mashbir. From riding with General Pershing and First Lieutenant Patton in Arizona in the early 1900s, as envoy to Pancho Villa, and later as the creator of a spy network that General MacArthur’s advisors credited with shaving two years off the WWII, to laying the groundwork of the CIA, Mashbir not only witnessed, but shaped pivotal events in American history. Sidney Mashbir was cowboy, soldier, spy, entrepreneur and diplomat.
That suitcase transformed Stan from reader of books to writer. The Emperor and the Spy: the Secret Alliance to Prevent World War Two, documents the deep friendship Mashbir engendered with the heir to the last Shogun of Japan Prince Tokugawa, and their covert efforts that delayed and almost prevented Japan from entering the war aligned to the Axis Powers.
As A Word with You Press begins its 16th year, introduce yourselves to our community and give us a link to you websites or books for sale.
You can read the fascinating story by our good friend Dr. Stan S. Katz at https://theemperorandthespy.com/ and find it for sale on Amazon.
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