James Stejskal
James Stejskal is a military historian and author of six books, including four novels in “The Snake Eater Chronicles” series. His latest is entitled DEAD HAND, a novel of the new Cold War where “Russia has won the war in Ukraine and is eyeing the Baltics next. The world stands on the precipice of war.”
Stejskal spent 35 years as a soldier and intelligence officer, often working in far off places with interesting people, experience he uses to inject realism and history into his novels.
Writers he likes are: Charles McCarry, Alan Furst, Ishmael Beah, V. S. Naipaul, L.Frank Baum, JRR Tolkien, Jaroslav Hašek, Ian Fleming, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, WEB Griffen, Frederick Forsyth, David Cornwell.
Other Awards
His military history, Masters of Mayhem, a study of Lawrence of Arabia and the inception of modern British unconventional warfare, won the 2019 Military History Matters Silver Medal winner
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Books by James Stejskal
Direct Legacy
A Question of Time
Appointment in Tehran
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956-1990
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
No Moon as Witness: Missions of the SOE and OSS in World War II
The Horns of the Beast
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