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# Mike Weedall Author

The Writing Of Mike Weedall

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- [Mike Weedall Author](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/) - COMING July 20th Escape To The Maroons I'm honored to have my newest book published July 20, 2025. The story of the courageous people who self-released from slavery to live free in one of the most inhospitable environments in North America is too little known. Maroons is a term in slave societies that refers to
- [Escape To The Maroons Endorsements](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/escape-to-the-maroons-endorsements/) - Early reviews of the pre-release book have been positive. Take a look. Reviewed by Readers’ FavoriteEscape to the Maroons by Mike Weedall is a historical novel that reveals the untold stories of fugitive slaves seeking freedom in the harsh terrain of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1791. Weedall skillfully combines thorough research with vivid storytelling
- [Contact Me](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/contact-me/)
- [Images Of Maroon Residents](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/images-of-maroon-residents/) - Because enslaved people could not be taught to read or write, there are few written records from that period. Further, the art of photography was yet to be developed. Thus, images from that period are paintings or sketches. Above is a rendition of what a residence of a swamper might look like. Typically built on
- [The Great Dismal Swamp--Then & Now](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/the-great-dismal-swamp-then-now/) - This is a sketch map of the location of the largest Maroon in North America in 1807—The Great Dismal Swamp. At the time I write about, 1791, the swamp was over 2,000 sq. miles--about the size of Delaware. Split between southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, you can see the dotted line dividing those two
- [Native People Who Pre-Dated Fleeing Slaves](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/native-people-who-pre-dated-fleeing-slaves/) - This image is of the Nansemond people fishing in The Great Dismal Swamp. Native tribes occupied the swamp for thousands of years before white European settlers started to populate North America. Those various tribes lived lives of cooperation and intertribal existence. With the colonization of North America, like those fleeing slavery, more Native Americans chose
- [The Story of Osman](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/the-story-of-osman/) - As I cited in the opening page of this website, the image of Osman, Guardian of the Great Dismal Swamp Maroons, was published in 1856 by Harper's Weekly. Rumors of communities of escaped slaves reached the editor of that magazine, and a writer was dispatched to learn about whether the stories were true or not.
- [War Angel Reviews](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/war-angel-reviews/) - Must read ��War is hell. This book offers the point of view of the nurses who risked their lives tocare for the military in Korea.SYNOPSISIt’s 1950. Mary Belanger, a Reserve Army operating room nurse is called up andmust leave behind a philandering husband and the baby of his runaway sister. Alltoo soon, Mary is thrust
- [Op-Eds Saluting Military Nurses](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/op-ed-saluting-military-nurses/) - Saluting military nurses of the Korean War, and the progress they made By MIKE WEEDALL SPECIAL TO STARS AND STRIPES • April 18, 2023
- [WAR ANGEL: KOREA 1950       Sample](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/war-angel-korea-1950-sample/) - In this snippet, Reserve Nurse Lieutenant Mary Belanager reaches her new MASH outfit and is thrust immediately into action. In the early afternoon, they reached Taegu. One officer commented, “Half a day to go forty-five miles on this so-called railroad. When you see the condition of Korean roads, you’ll understand why this is better.” The
- [MASH Video Links](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/mash-video-links/) - Major Ruby Bradley Major Bradley was captured in the Philippines during World War II and served prisoners of war for three years as a captive. When liberated, she weighed eighty-four pounds. In the Korean War, Bradley was the Senior Nurse commanding over five hundred nurses, Copy and paste this link to see some rare Army
- [Korean War Photo Gallery](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/korean-war-photo-gallery/)
- [Iva Toguri Audio & Video Links](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/op-ed/) - The first video is a short reading from my book Iva: The True Story of Tokyo Rose. Following that short reading, the subsequent video and audio links listed provide us the benefit of hearing and seeing some of the key actors in the 1940s that so affected Iva and her fate. Imagine being trapped in
- [Iva: The True Story Of Tokyo Rose Named One Of Top Books of 2020](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/about/) - The December 15, 2020 issue of Kirkus Reviews lists my book as one of the op Indie Books of the year. Besides earning a Star rating by Kirkus when they first issued the review, I'm honored to receive the recognition. In January, 2021 , I was interviewed in their weekly podcast of best books. Check
- [Iva Toguri Photo Gallery](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/photo-gallery/) - Iva Interviewed By Press At End Of World War II https://www.flickr.com/photos/scvtv/21595114233/ U.S. Army Photo Courtesy Of Flickr Iva Toguri Mugshot, Sugamo Prison, March 7, 1946 Photo Courtesy Of National Archives Iva With Her Lead Attorney, Wayne Collins Sr. Photo Courtesy Japanese American National Museum Wayne Collins Jr. Who Took Over Iva's Defense After His Father's
- [Praise for Iva: The True Story of Tokyo Rose](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/early-praise-for-iva-the-true-story-of-tokyo-rose/) - TITLE INFORMATION--KIRKUS REVIEWSIVAThe True Story of Tokyo RoseMike WeedallLuminare Press (303 pp.)BOOK REVIEWA debut historical work focuses on the woman who was turned into World War II’s legendary Tokyo Rose.The name Tokyo Rose conjures up images of a powerfully seductive Japanese woman demoralizing homesick Americansoldiers through radio propaganda during the brutal years of World War
- [Additional Information On The Korean War & MASH Units](https://www.mikeweedallauthor.com/additional-information-on-the-korean-war-mash-units/) - Armed conflict ended in the Korean War on July 27, 1953, with an armistice agreement that created the Korean Demilitarized Zone and returned the border between the two countries to the 38th Parallel. A formal peace agreement has never been signed. Officially, those two countries remain in a state of war. Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals