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Michael G Walling
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- Michael G. (Mike) Walling (Hudson, Massachusetts) is the author of six books and is an internationally recognized military, aviation, and naval historian.
His most recent book, Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (Osprey Publishing, 2017), tells the story of the men who faced an unceasing series of D-Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, mostly against well-entrenched enemy positions. It traces traces their operational history from Guadalcanal to Casablanca, Sicily, Normandy, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa. The men's stories are told in their own voices, with fascinating accounts from Underwater Demolition Teams, Attack Transport crews and many other unsung heroes of World War II. First-hand interviews, entries from personal diaries and Action Reports create a unique history, perfectly complemented by historic illustrations and detailed maps. These are timeless tales of determination, sacrifice, and triumph of the human spirit - tales of US Amphibious Forces that for too long have gone forgotten and untold.
His titles include Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices (Osprey Publishing, 2015), which uses the voices of the men and women who have fought in America’s longest sustained war entailing combat operations to tell for the first time the history of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan from 2001 through mid-2014.
Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys in World War II (Osprey Publishing, 2012), captures for the first time the true essence of these convoys and served it to the reader in a book seemingly made from crystalline Arctic Sea ice yet actually composed of Allied and Soviets survivors’ memories and, sometimes, memories left behind by those who didn’t survive. The book is an international bestseller, reaching #1 on Amazon–UK’s World War II list shortly after publication.
Walling’s first book, Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic 1941–1944 (International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2004), received critical acclaim from reviewers and veterans alike. Winner of the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, awarded by The Naval Order of the United States, the book earned praise from the likes of bestselling novelist Stephen Coonts; Master Chief Petty Officer Vince Patton, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.); and Dr. Dennis L. Noble, author of Lifeboat Sailors: Disasters, Rescues, and the Perilous Future of the Coast Guard’s Small Boat Stations and The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard, among others.
Moving from naval to aviation history, In the Event of a Water Landing, tells for the first time the full stories of the Bermuda Sky Queen and Sovereign of the Skies rescues, the only two completely successful open ocean ditchings in Commercial Aviation history. These two stories encompass many facets of ditchings: bad weather, engine failure, horrific sea conditions, and indomitable courage in the face of death. Between these two are tales of other ditchings, as well as the journey we humans have undertaken from the beginning of transoceanic flight to today.
Mike’s first novel, Choke Points (Cutter Publishing, 2009), addresses the real threats to Maritime and Port Security.
Walling has spent five decades collecting stories from veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as those of pilots, merchant seamen, and civilian personnel with NATO and EUFOR. His research has taken him across the United States as well as abroad to such places as Afghanistan, Bosnia–Herzegovina, Croatia, Great Britain, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Russia, and Afghanistan.
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