Rush On Boys Audiobook Goes on Sale
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Rush On Boys - Audiobook
Book Interview: Rush On Boys
I just gave an interview on my Hamilton book. Find it at the link below.
Book Interview: Rush On Boys
Book Interview: Rush On Boys
Interview I gave on the Gettysburg Battlecast
I just gave an interview to Greg Caggiano for his excellent widely read blog site, "From New York to San Francisco." Greg is the official blogger for Ron Maxwell's forthcoming film, COPPERHEAD and in this talk I discuss the details of the Gettysburg Battlecast and the exciting plans for the Gettysburg 150th anniversary celebration this summer.
Check it out HERE if you have a moment.
Check it out HERE if you have a moment.
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Gettysburg 150th
Canadian Audiobook Now Available
Check it out here Audible.com
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War and Military,
WWI
Gettysburg Battlecast (Pickett's Charge Live) Opens to Subscribers
Today the streaming site, Gettysburgbattlecast.com opened to subscribers. This subscription site will allow viewers from all over the world to watch the epic battle of Pickett's Charge live on July 7th from the 150th Anniversary Gettysburg National Civil War Reenactment.
The Gettysburg Battlecast is the the streaming component of the coverage. It is not only the live Pickett's Charge but we have offered it as a four month subscription now for one low price. Subscribers will be able to watch exclusive interviews and other material leading up to the reenactment and we will also be posting daily video highlight reels from each of the four days of the battle reenactments that people won't see anywhere else. This is also something that has never been done before. It is all very ground breaking and that's what in my view makes it exciting.
Gettysburg: Final Measure of Devotion is the official commemorative film of the 150th Gettysburg National Civil War Reenactment. It will be released on Remembrance day in Gettysburg on Blu-Ray and DVD disc. There are plans to show it in a theater or two in Gettysburg. And also we plan a national broadcast of the film in February 2014 on PBS.
Hope you're able to check out the battlecast!
Production Completed on WWI Audiobook, How Canada Won the Great War
I auditioned nearly twenty narrators but Colin rose to the top. He has this timeless quality to his voice which fit perfectly with the WWI story. It was a true collaboration from start to finish and it was fun to again work across an ocean. James Gillies is just wrapping the narration on my Rush On Boys - Hamilton at War book in Scotland.
The audiobook files for How Canada Won the Great War are being processed now and they will soon be available on both Audible.com and itunes. I will make a separate announcement when I know the definite retail release date which be in early April. Listen to an excerpt below.
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War and Military,
WWI
Alexander Hamilton Book Now on Kindle
The paperback version of the book is already out and the audiobook version should release next week.
Hamilton Book Now Shipping, Audiobook Version Recording in Scotland
I am pleased to announced today that the book, Rush On, Boys: Hamilton at War (print version) is now shipping globally. The official release date is tomorrow but you can purchase it now. The Kindle version will be released next week.
And the audiobook version is now being recorded in Scotland by veteran BBC narrator, James Gillies. Please click on the advance audio excerpt below.
Rush On Boys, Audiobook excerpt, read by James Gillies by Robert Child
Gillies grew up in Scotland where he still resides and he is recording the narration only six (6) miles from the county line of Ayrshire which is ancestral home of Alexander Hamilton. Gillies knows the Hamilton story well and he related to me a tale which may or may not be true but both he and I agree it is fascinating.
Gillies, "As a child I was taught that Hamilton's ancestors came from Ayrshire, a county whose border is only some six miles from here. In Ayrshire is a place called Dollar. It is a compact town these days, but once upon a time it was primarily known as the site of the Scots' Royal Mint, and the coins made there were known, not surprisingly, as 'dollars'. In the fullness of time, the dollar coin was replaced by a currency known as the 'pound Scots' and new dollars were no longer minted. However, as they were made of solid silver, they continued in circulation, far beyond our shores, disseminated by sailors and fishermen as they moved from port to port. Eventually many of them were to be found in the hands of the privateers and other ne-er do wells who made their living around the West Indies.
As a result, goes the story, Hamilton would have been utterly familiar with the dollar, both from shared family memories of Scotland and from the turbulent trade which moved through the Caribbean as he was growing up. The story goes that when Hamilton and the others were discussing the establishment of a new American currency, there were strongly argued objections to creating an American Pound due to its unwelcome associations with the former colonial power. Hamilton, it is said, reached back into his memory and suggested the name of the coin associated with his family's former home, and thus the Dollar was reborn. As I said, this latter part of the story might be apocryphal, but I find it quite interesting."
And I agree. Look forward to the audio book release during the first part of March with James Gillie's stirring narration. He truly brings Hamilton's war time story in Rush On, Boys to life.
And the audiobook version is now being recorded in Scotland by veteran BBC narrator, James Gillies. Please click on the advance audio excerpt below.
Rush On Boys, Audiobook excerpt, read by James Gillies by Robert Child
Gillies grew up in Scotland where he still resides and he is recording the narration only six (6) miles from the county line of Ayrshire which is ancestral home of Alexander Hamilton. Gillies knows the Hamilton story well and he related to me a tale which may or may not be true but both he and I agree it is fascinating.
Gillies, "As a child I was taught that Hamilton's ancestors came from Ayrshire, a county whose border is only some six miles from here. In Ayrshire is a place called Dollar. It is a compact town these days, but once upon a time it was primarily known as the site of the Scots' Royal Mint, and the coins made there were known, not surprisingly, as 'dollars'. In the fullness of time, the dollar coin was replaced by a currency known as the 'pound Scots' and new dollars were no longer minted. However, as they were made of solid silver, they continued in circulation, far beyond our shores, disseminated by sailors and fishermen as they moved from port to port. Eventually many of them were to be found in the hands of the privateers and other ne-er do wells who made their living around the West Indies.
As a result, goes the story, Hamilton would have been utterly familiar with the dollar, both from shared family memories of Scotland and from the turbulent trade which moved through the Caribbean as he was growing up. The story goes that when Hamilton and the others were discussing the establishment of a new American currency, there were strongly argued objections to creating an American Pound due to its unwelcome associations with the former colonial power. Hamilton, it is said, reached back into his memory and suggested the name of the coin associated with his family's former home, and thus the Dollar was reborn. As I said, this latter part of the story might be apocryphal, but I find it quite interesting."
And I agree. Look forward to the audio book release during the first part of March with James Gillie's stirring narration. He truly brings Hamilton's war time story in Rush On, Boys to life.
The Wereth Eleven Tonight on Military Channel at 10P
The Wereth Eleven retraces the steps eleven black GI's from the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion took when their unit was overrun by Germans at the start of the Battle of the Bulge. Their 10-mile trek from their battery position to Wereth, Belgium would be the last journey of their lives as a local resident turned them in to an SS scouting party. Subsequently all eleven were butchered and killed in one of the least understood, as well as unknown, war crimes of WWII.
