I taught American History, Military History, and Historical Writing at San Jose State University from 1988 to 2002. I am a trained military historian, not a journalist or a history buff. I am fluent and literate in German. My subject area is largely WWI ranging from POW escapes, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and German U-Boat operations. I have also written books on naval aviation covering the period 1925-1942. A manuscript titled, Eleven Months to Freedom is currently under consideration by the Naval Institute Press (2015). My work has also appeared in The American Neptune (German Gunboats in China), The Quarterly Journal of Military History (German U-Boats), War Revolution and Peace (Germany's Yangtse Patrol), Silent Hunters Savas Publishing, (German U-Boat Commanders in WWII), 1942, Issue in Doubt, Eakin Press, (Early Pacific War), Naval History (German Gunboats im China, 1898-1914, POW escape from Siberia, 1915-1916, and the Loss of the USS Langley, 1942). I also wrote the foreword to Gaylord Kelshall's, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean. and the Naval Institute's Classics of Naval Literature title, Voyage of the Deutschland.