Bøger af Robert Gilbert

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir SeriesBob Gilbert was a ball turret gunner in a B-17 with the 533rd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, Ridgewell, England.Out of the harshness of the Great Depression were produced the people who would fight World War Two in the factories and on the battlefields. Though very human in their failings, they were a generation or so of people who were not particularly self-absorbed or frivolous. As history has shown, they were able to face with fierce dedication the terrible forces of the Axis Powers and beat them. This story observes one of these young persons as he grows rapidly to adulthood, along with his peers, experiencing love, fear and having deep feelings of dedication to protect his country...and is told at times with some humor.This memoir is the story of a young aerial machine gunner, on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, who had to grow up fast. He participated as a teenaged enlisted man in the World War II Big League of air war...the ETO. In his turret hanging under that storied bomber, he was positioned to defend his bomber from the Luftwaffe's deadly fighter aircraft. This compelling story presents his perspective of the committed life he and his peers brought to manned bomber warfare, which is The View From The Bottom Up... literally and figuratively.ContentsPrologueAuthor's Notes and AcknowledgementsChapter 1: The Boy AwakensChapter 2: From Long Beach to TampaChapter 3: E Pluribus UnumChapter 4: Bon VoyageChapter 5: And So It BeginsChapter 6: Return to SchweinfurtChapter 7: LondonChapter 8: Of Shots and ChaffChapter 9: The City GirlChapter 10: Hamburg to Buzz BombsChapter 11: The Dog FightChapter 12: The Battle of the BulgeChapter 13: At The Palace HotelChapter 14: Big B and Valentine's DayChapter 15: The Combat Tour ClosesChapter 16: GoodbyeChapter 17: VE Day in the DarkChapter 18: The Final ChallengeEpilogueAfterwordAddenda 1: Combat MissionsAddenda 2: Medals Awarded to S/Sgt. Robert GilbertAddenda 3: Fortieth Year Reunion, SeattleReferences27 photos, illustrations and documents

Desire is a collection of playful and seductive adventures told by three woman, teasing out their sexual enjoyment. Their bodies react in exquisite harmony with their partners. Pure and explosive, deeply sensual, each woman's passion craves her man even before the first touch. Each lady is very attractive, sophisticated and tantalizing, leading to pleasurable, erotic sex. The seduction in each story is intoxicating. Sexual persuasion is met with approval. Robert Gilbert has been writing Romance and Western stories for over twenty years combined. His first romance novel, MEGAN'S LOVE has been enjoyed worldwide. After moving to Hollywood, California, working on entertainment assignments, he became set on writing love stories and epic Westerns. The itch for cowboy stories began when visiting many times the Western back lot of a major studio in Burbank, creating stories in his mind of tales to be told. His stories have been published in Frontier Tales. Gilbert now lives near Chicago and the Romance stories and Westerns continue. The Romances are playful, seductive and arousing, filled with all the sensation of passion. The Westerns are epic tales from across the high plains, windswept canyons, dusty streets and noisy saloons.

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In Boston in the early part of the twentieth century a young woman, Maggie McLaughlin, is caught between the reality of her humble birth and her desire to succeed in a cultured world. At the same time, a young man, Hugh Brent, is caught between his lofty society upbringing and his attraction to the young woman. The road to the fulfillment of Maggie's wish is opened up when a bargain with Hugh Brent allows her to attend Mt. Holyoke College. A huge turn in Hugh Brent's life takes place when he goes against his family and wealthy fiancé's wishes and instead of joining his father's lucrative business firm, studies medicine. Hugh's ideas are altered by a brush with death, and his eyes are further opened when, as a doctor, he goes to France, is submerged in the horrors of W.W.I., and is eventually seriously wounded. Maggie is now a librarian and while working hard for the war effort, waits for Hugh to return from the war, clinging to the unrealistic hope that he will marry her. The story is one of complex characters and the struggle between hope and apparent reality.

Epic cowboy Westerns come alive in Robert Gilbert's collection of ten short-story tales across the high plains, a sweltering desert, mountain ranges with towering peaks and bending canyon walls where sunlight disappears on a blistering day. Not far away is a place called Cheyenne River, a tough cowboy town, kept peaceful by U.S. Marshal Warren Brothers. He carries himself with confidence, is muscular, and his skin is bronzed by the wind and sun. His dark eyes frame a hard, weathered face, and a thick mustache curls above his lips. Along with Marshal Brothers, you will be introduced to Marshal Garriet Bask. Together they are up against villains, desperadoes and gunslingers who tempt their fate. Few of these misfits become victorious while others feel the hot lead from a Colt .44 penetrate their body. These ten tales are stories of a Western frontier, with mean-talking strangers who have shadowy quick eyes beneath a worn Stetson. Voices speak in a cowboy twang, laughter is rough and the smell of whiskey and smoke drift about in every saloon.

When William (Bill) Compton arrived at Hanford, he was issued badge number TNX-35 indicating that he was the 35th person hired by the DuPont Company. Bill, like so many of his colleagues, were proud of the work they performed at the Hanford Engineering Works (HEW) for the Manhattan Project during World War II. The feats they accomplished were amazing. In 1994 Bill Compton began to notice that his colleagues were aging and some had passed on. Their stories and experiences were being lost. To preserve their amazing stories and accomplishments on the Manhattan Project, Bill conducted personal interviews and captured firsthand, their memories on audio tapes that are summarized here in this book. Bill Compton conducted most of the interviews featured in this book and Edgar Robert (Bob) Gilbert provided major support, transcribing all the interviews into readable text and conducting interviews when Bill was not available. Bob made a commitment to Bill prior to Bill's death, to ensure that all their hard work and the memories of their colleagues would not be forgotten. Without Bill's passion and Bob's diligent effort, this book would never have been possible.

Your Days are Numbered is the autobiographical sequel to the late Rev. Robert Lewis Gilbert's book No Excuses Accepted (1988) which was completed a few months before his death in 1992. He was fifty years old. Rev. Gilbert never lost his faith in God although taken to death's door again and again because of hundreds of hospitalizations and surgeries for chronic illnesses; witnessing his own father die; burying his best friend in college, and even being held at gunpoint. Rev. Gilbert's powerful testimony invites readers, in whatever stage of life, to cherish the gift of life and to accept the reality of death with dignity, courage, and grace while trusting in God.