![]() ![]() With these experiences, the author has produced a war story that one reviewer described as a “chillingly plausible and totally credible account of global war at sea.” He also got access to the kinds of information about the nation’s defense systems that most military fiction writers only dream about. But the rest of the information was gleaned from his first-hand observations and his eight years of research as a Naval historian in Washington, D.C. The Navy job let him witness the Gulf War of 1991 from a near-Pentagon perspective. Some of the details, he said, came from a copy of “Jane’s Fighting Ships,” a reference book on naval ships and their weapons. The book is fiction, of course, but the military strategies, machines and weapons, that Palmer describes, are real. Palmer’s book, published in March by Vandamere Press, is a blow-by-blow description of a conventional weapons war between the United States and Russia in 1999. But for now, the ECU history professor is holding on to the notes and drafts from his newly published book “The War That Never Was.” There may be questions later, serious questions, about how a fiction writer knows so much about military strategies and the mechanics of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() 29, 1994) - When Michael Palmer completes a book-writing project, his usual practice is to throw his reference notes away. ![]()
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