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September 26, 2016 By Timothy Ashby Leave a Comment

WARRIOR’S RETURN – A GHOST STORY

WARRIOR’S RETURN – A GHOST STORY

WARRIOR’S RETURN By Timothy Ashby I saw my father last night. Mother had gone to bed, pleased that I was home again during one of my rare visits.  Making myself comfortable in a frayed armchair, I opened a novel.  Cocooned amid familiar books and musty furnishings, surrounded by silver frames displaying fading ancestors, I felt […]

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October 4, 2013 By Timothy Ashby 1 Comment

Chemical Warfare: As Old As History

Chemical weapons have been used for millennia. They are among mankind’s most despicable weapons, and have never caused anything but heartbreak and devastation. In a bizarre twist of history, invading Iranians used clouds of sodium chloride gas in AD 256 to kill Roman soldiers in the ancient city of Dura-Europos in Syria. During the American […]

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September 27, 2013 By Timothy Ashby Leave a Comment

Syria: A Very Bad Bet

Weeks after the fact, I remain outraged that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry so strongly advocated a US-led attack against targets in Syria. Someone in Syria, in all likelihood Assad, killed and maimed thousands of people with horrific chemical weapons. The is unforgivable. And yet—I am not willing to support an action that […]

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August 6, 2013 By Timothy Ashby Leave a Comment

Special Operations Then and Now

In my latest novel, TIME FALL, Lt. Art Sutton and his six-man “Fox” team are members of the US 2nd Ranger Battalion. Sutton was a survivor of the assault on Pointe du Hoc during the Normandy invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944. I based “Fox” team on the real life “Alamo Scouts,” who were small teams […]

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June 26, 2013 By Timothy Ashby Leave a Comment

Nazi Holocaust Killers: Still Here

Do Old Nazis matter? The Holocaust ended with the Second World War 68 years ago, yet some of the Nazis who perpetrated history’s most horrendous crimes are still alive.  Recently, the 94-year-old former commander of a SS military unit was found in Minneapolis, where he had been living quietly for six decades.  His unit commited […]

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An international lawyer, businessman and writer, Tim Ashby worked in Washington DC as a counter-terrorism consultant to the U.S. State Department, and then as a senior official at the U.S. Commerce Department. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Southern California, a JD from Seattle University Law School, and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Scotland. Tim Ashby currently lives in the south of France. Read More

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