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Stephen Watts

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in Bitburg, Germany
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Ernest Hemingway

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The child of an Air Force family, Stephen Watts was born in West Germany. He is the grandnephew of Harold Carleton, the main subject of Stephen’s second book, Searching for Harold.

Stephen began organizing his family’s genealogical files, tracing his lineage, and transcribing the family correspondence in 1996.

His English immigrant great-great-grandfather’s correspondence inspired his first book, the award-winning Searching for Charles, published in 2022.

Stephen grew up to serve in the Air Force himself. After nine years, he left to begin a three-decade career in the insurance industry before retiring in Georgia, where he lives with his still-tolerant wife, Karin.

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“An engaging collection…an intimate portrait of wartime at home and abroad, expressed in personal letters.” ~ Kirkus Reviews, “Get it.”

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British Soldiers, American War by Donald N. Hagist
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An interesting and underreported perspective on the American Revolution. The book presents the stories, and often the brief memoirs, of a handful of British soldiers who fought in America.We learn how disparate the British forces really were, forces ...more
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Saratoga by Richard M. Ketchum
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This was well worth the time to read - There is so much to the story of the Battle of Saratoga. Epic events that led up to it, ramifications that impacted so much that happened immediately after and in the years to come. I highly recommend.
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
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Excellent, in-depth narrative describing the famous crossing of the Delaware - and the events leading up to it.
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Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
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Angel in the Whirlwind by Benson Bobrick
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If you're only going to read one book about the American Revolution, let this be it. ...more
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin
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Joseph Martin's book was published in 1830, nearly fifty years after the time period covered in his book ended. It remains as one of the most frequently used primary sources of American Revolutionary War history. His narrative provides an immensely i ...more
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Breaking Midnight by Lynn  Walker
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Lynn did a great job pulling together her father's story, which is fascinating in its detail and because of the perspective of a pre- and post- Miami Vice era Miami undercover narcotics detective turned drug smuggler. Along with all that, we see the ...more
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“I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.”
Stephen Watts, Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

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