Lee B Croft

This is book three in a three-book biographical series about the fascinating life of John Croft--a soldier in Great Britain's first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), a business magnate in Sydney, Australia, from 1843 to 1859, and a wealthy gentleman with two named estates in Victorian England.

This is the first biography in English of Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich, who was hanged as the explosives technician of the "People's Will" party of terrorists who assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II with a thrown grenade on March 1, 1881....

This book, PEACE and PRESERVATION: The Life of Gregory Melikian, is the biography of Gregory Melikian (b. 1924-) who, as a 20-year-old radio telegrapher for General Dwight D. Eisenhower....

In this, book one of a planned trilogy, John Croft graduates from the Addiscombe Military Seminary in England at the age of sixteen, sails to Madras, India, where he witnesses the burning of "suttees," thence to Rangoon, Burma.