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Mike Connell

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Memoir, History, Nonfiction

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Barbara Tuchman

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Mike Connell is a 1980 West Point graduate and retired lieutenant colonel. After leaving the Army, he taught history at a private school in Rockville, MD for two decades and just completed a memoir about his military service in Africa. During his 20-year Army career, he served as an intelligence officer in West Berlin, a commander of a 170-man company in Arlington, VA, a foreign area officer in the Ivory Coast, a security assistance manger in Niger, a history professor at West Point, and an intelligence and policy analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. He is airborne and ranger-qualified, earned an MA in African and European history from George Washington University, and graduated from resident U.S. Army Command and General ...more

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Mike Connell I am looking into writing a short history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC) and its predecessors. I have studied and written about the co…moreI am looking into writing a short history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC) and its predecessors. I have studied and written about the country in graduate school, as a visitor to the nation, and as an intelligence analyst in the Pentagon. Given the area's eventful and chaotic history starting in the late 19th century as an entity known as the Congo Free State, I want to provide an overview of the history of this important region of Africa for the general reader.(less)

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Mike Connell While I was teaching history at a private school after I retired from the Army, I talked with a fellow history teacher who was writing and publishing …moreWhile I was teaching history at a private school after I retired from the Army, I talked with a fellow history teacher who was writing and publishing her first novel. She taught me a lot of the details involved in being a writer such as the importance of catching fleeting ideas about your work when they occur and of drafting a concise query letter to explain the gist of your book to potential publishers. After hearing about her experiences, I decided writing would be a great project to undertake after I retired from teaching.(less)

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