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Paul A. Myers


Biography

Paul A. Myers is the author of the history-based novels "Paris 1935: Destiny's Crossroads," "Paris 1934: Victory in Retreat" and "Vienna 1934: Betrayal at the Ballplatz." He also publishes short travel culture essays under the series name "French Sketches." Previously, he wrote the maritime history "North to California: The Spanish Voyages of Discovery 1533-1603." He is a self-employed CPA and lives in Claremont CA with his wife Minche, where both are active in fine arts groups. Myers serves as co-president of the Scripps College Fine Arts Foundation 2008-2012. Paul and his wife are amateur francophiles and visit France regularly.

Where to find Paul A. Myers online

Website: http://www.myersbooks.com
Twitter: myersbooks
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://myersbooksparis.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/Paul-A.-Myers/e/B001K86712/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Books

A Farewell in Paris    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $2.99 USD. 74120 words. Published on November 29, 2012. Fiction.
A brave war…a failed peace…a story set in the Jazz Age in Paris of the 1920s with a look back to the war and the peace that came afterward. Two American veterans of the 1918 battle at Chateau Thierry meet in Paris in 1928. Kurt, now a Berlin correspondent, is writing a novel about the grinding end to the war, the desolation of the peace in Germany, and a doomed romance with a German nurse in 1919.
French Sketches: Monaco, Onassis, and Prince Rainier    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 10130 words. Published on April 27, 2012. Nonfiction.
In 1950, Prince Rainier became ruler of Monaco while shortly afterwards tanker baron Aristotle Onassis sailed in as the city-state’s largest investor. The two men had different visions for Monaco’s future: should it be a haven for the ultra-rich or a tax haven for a rising class of international millionaires? Ultimately, Prince Rainier prevailed; Onassis sailed away to marry Jackie Kennedy.
French Sketches: Cap Ferrat and Somerset Maugham    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 8970 words. Published on August 4, 2011. Nonfiction.
In 1928, world famous author Somerset Maugham moved into a sumptuous villa on twelve gardened acres on Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera. Maugham’s marriage to his wife Syrie was behind him; his secretary and companion Gregory Haxton was with him. And so Maugham lived at his beloved Villa Mauresque until his death in 1965. This essay highlights an adventurous life lived amongst great splendor.
French Sketches: Cap d'Antibes and the Murphys    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 5820 words. Published on June 4, 2011. Nonfiction.
Gerald and Sara Murphy, a wealthy young American couple, arrived in Paris in 1921 and walked into the Modernist cultural revolution sweeping through France. They were charter members of the Lost Generation chronicled so poignantly by Ernest Hemingway in "The Sun Also Rises." In 1925 the couple moved into their beautiful home, the Villa America, on Cap d'Antibes where they famously entertained.
Clerk! The Vietnam Memoir of Paul A. Myers    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 20920 words. Published on May 19, 2011. Nonfiction.
Infantry PFC Paul A. Myers was assigned to the elite operations section G-3 at Headquarters, 101st Airborne Division, at Camp Eagle in March 1970 as clerk for the Doctrine, Organization, and Training Section. From this vantage point, he followed the infantry and air war in the northern two provinces of South Vietnam, the corner where the DMZ, Laos, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam intersect.
Paris 1935: Destiny's Crossroads    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 84960 words. Published on March 14, 2011. Fiction.
Madame Lambert meets American diplomat Dexter Jones. Dedicated to her official work, the widow resists romance while becoming intrigued with the charming diplomat as he escorts her to salons across the Left Bank cultural scene. Romance ripens into commitment as momentous events unfold as the French attempt to face the Ethiopian crisis while countering the Nazi threat in the German Rhineland.
Paris 1934: Victory in Retreat    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 85810 words. Published on June 7, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
In Depression-era France, Sorbonne student Sandrine works with American reporters covering momentous political battles raging on the streets of Paris. In summer, she pursues amorous adventures of her own during the festive Bastille Day celebrations. Destinies intersect in October 1934 when a Yugoslav king arrives in France for an important state visit and a historically startling climax.
Vienna 1934: Betrayal at the Ballplatz    by Paul A. Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 82120 words. Published on April 29, 2010. Fiction.
German-backed Nazis move to overthrow Chancellor Dollfuss’s fascist government and deliver Austria to Hitler’s Reich. Foreign correspondent Geoffrey Ashbrook returns to Vienna to write dispatches for his London paper and secret reports for the British cabinet. But Ashbrook has a second secret mission: to find out why his fiancée Anna Marie Linden has mysteriously broken off their engagement.

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