By ©2007 Robert Louis Bernard, All Rights Reserved World Wide. Narrative Nonfiction Book: The Fire, the Ice, and the Fury: The Untold Story of the Battle of Chosin Author: ©Robert Louis Bernard Agency: Trident Media Group, New York. Agent: Scott Miller Created by former William Morris executives, Trident represents over 500 authors and their diverse client list includes: Dean Koonz, Charles Grodin, Larry Hagman, Mariel Hemingway, Englebert Humperdink, Cedric the Entertainer, Paris Hilton, The Osbournes, Carl Reiner, Tori Spelling, Jon Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Oksana Baiul, Tatum O’neal, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby, and The Vatican. Publisher: Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England. Editor: Anita Bryant Publishing military books since 1967, past Osprey works include: “Samurai Commanders,” by Stephen Turnbull, “The Hundred Years War,” by Ann Curry, “Trafalgar,” by Gregory Freemont Barnes, “Sherman’s March to the Sea,” by David Smith, “US Doughboy,” by Thomas Hoff, “The German Army in World War I,” by Nigel Thomas, “Stalingrad 1942,” by Peter Antil, and “Wolfpack,” by Gordon Williamson. United States Distributor: Random House, New York. Random House is a international corporation and one of the world’s largest publishers, offering diverse services such as distribution and vendor representation. Estimated date of publication: The book is finished and delivered to publisher and is now in the final editing process with publication targeted for the fall of 2007. Book, Documentary, Movie, Mini-series Every dog has its day. Book: The story of the “Battle of Chosin’ has remained dormant for well over fifty years, but suddenly it has become a hot commodity, not only among literary circles but in Washington D.C., and Hollywood as well. The book is unique in the fact that it is the first ever saga written strictly from the viewpoint of the U.S. Army fighting in that epic battle. The Army’s 31st Regimental Combat Team, was a small contingent of 3,000 men that fought in conjunction with 28,000 combatants of the heralded 1st Marine Division at Chosin Reservoir, an isolated and blighted area that rests in the northeastern sector of Communist North Korea. The projected date of publication is tentatively planned for the fall of 2007. Documentary: Ms. Julie Precious, a U.S. Army officer living and working in the D.C. area, is scheduled to release her long awaited documentary “Task Force Faith,” around the beginning of 2008. Feature Film: The film company “2929 Entertainment,” owned by Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban and his partner from their Broadcast.com days, Todd Wagner, have announced they plan to shoot the feature film, “The Chosen Few,” in May, 2008, scheduled for release sometime later in the year. Heralded military action screenwriter and academy award nominee, John Milius, the producer of such heralded successes as “Conan the Barbarian,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Clear and Present Danger,” and many other combat epics, was handling the screenplay. Millius’s current work can be seen on the popular HBO special, “Rome.” I emphasize the word “was.” Milius died suddenly on April Fools Day, March 31st 2007 of pneumonia and kidney failure. 2929 has not released a statement as to how this will affect the movie. 2929 is also planning a controversial feature film starring Charlie Sheen advancing the theory that 9/11 was the result of a covert plot by the Bush Administration. Mini-series: Robert Bernard’s agent, Scott Miller of Trident Media Group has indicated that talks of a mini-series along the order of Stephen Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers,” are being bandied about, with that likelihood depending on the success of the movie. Synopsis: “The Fire, the Ice, and the Fury: The Untold Story of the Battle of Chosin.” ©Robert L. Bernard The greatest war story never suitably told lies buried beneath the ice and snow in a place that appears to have no earthly business within the realm of God’s green acres. In the throes of winter, Chosin Reservoir, on the northeast end of the Korean Peninsula, is arguably one of the most isolated, desolate, and barren places the world has ever seen. And it is at Chosin that over two thousand young men remain; forsaken for all time in unmarked confines far from home. They are left for all eternity, interred on a frozen hill, in a shallow ravine, or a lonely glacial corner of some remote field in the wasteland that is North Korea. In this distant and faraway place the landscape is disturbed only by the melancholy moan of an arctic wind cascading down from Siberia’s frozen tundra. Nothing shows the horrors of war like this place and the battle that was waged here in the winter of 1950. Suddenly in the early summer of 1950, North Korea attacked South Korea, and in record time captured practically the entire country, taking the capital of Seoul in all of a single day. Shortly thereafter with lightning speed and a fortuitous battle plan, South Korea was just as quickly wrenched from the jaws of its North Korean oppressors. United Nation’s Forces were spearheaded by US Army and Marine combat divisions under renowned Army General Douglas MacArthur. At that victorious moment, many expected the Allies to stand down, but General MacArthur opted instead to send his triumphant forces on a new mission: the conquest of North Korea itself. Through a quirk of fate, a troop of highly decorated, battle-tested World War II veteran officers were tasked with guiding a 3,000 man force consisting almost entirely of green American teenagers and young South Koreans unceremoniously yanked off the streets of Seoul. The locals, thrown into battle with no training at all, were forged into soldiers alongside the fledgling Americans hardened only by two months already spent trading blood with the invading North Koreans. Their officers, borne from the bloodstained beaches of Normandy, the murderous fields of Bastogne, and the tremendous tank battles on the scorching hot sands of North Africa, could offer little more than determined grit and an unsurpassed legacy of combat leadership. The relationship between the veterans and the plucky young kids was a very special one, evolving from one of skepticism to the growing admiration of teacher and student. As the battle raged and the students gained the increasing respect of their battle-hardened teachers, the needless loss of so many young lives disheartened even the most hardcore veterans. From its inception, the 31st RCT was the victim of a series of horrific command decisions that ultimately left it surrounded by a 200,000 man Chinese army bent on their complete annihilation. Combating 35 below zero weather, running short of ammunition and medical supplies, and lacking cold weather clothing, the young force refused to surrender. Determined to fight, they performed a rare and extraordinary military feat: for four days and five nights these bold troops stopped the Red Army in its tracks. In the process, despite suffering seventy percent casualties, these untested young troops prevented the Chinese from isolating and destroying the heralded US 1st Marine Division, who were blissfully unaware of the danger just fourteen miles away. This incredible checking action allowed the Marines to regroup, reload, and extend the Battle of Chosin; culminating in what most historians call, their greatest victory ever. Chosin was one of the bravest and most heroic battles ever fought and soon it’s tragic, courageous, and unparalleled story will be properly told for the very first time. ©Robert Bernard Narrative Nonfiction Book: "Everglades: A Chronicle of the Burgeoning Drug Culture of Miami and Dade County in the Seventies." Author: ©Robert Louis Bernard Publisher: Tex Star Publishing, Woodway, Texas. Publisher/Editor: Doris Newnam Estimated Date of Publication: Spring 2008 Synopsis: "Everglades: A Chronicle of the Burgeoning Drug Culture of Miami and Dade County in the Seventies." Author: ©Robert Louis Bernard To prepare for this book extensive research was done on the “War on Drugs” through a graduate studies program and to my amazement little has changed since the inception of the U.S. Government’s grossly failed experiment in prohibition. The only amendments in the War on Drugs that can be identified over the years are that the laws have become more draconian than ever. The story details the rapidly emerging drug culture of Miami and Dade County during the raucous seventies. Suddenly billions of dollars in dirty money and illegal drugs were dumped on a community that was struggling economically. Metaphorically, it was as if a never ending swarm of starving locusts had set upon miles and miles of fresh cornfields. All involved had ravenous appetites and struggled mightily for a piece of the bounty. What it led to was a euphoric sort of chaos that included the mob, dirty cops, fearless smugglers, felonious teenagers with more guts than brains, and perfectly legitimate businessmen who could not resist the temptation of such enormous wealth. And of course there were the drugs, the purest and most lethal of our time. It was virgin territory and law enforcement and the community itself was completely overwhelmed. ©Robert Louis Bernard OTHER ROBERT BERNARD PROJECTS IN THE WORKS Narrative Nonfiction Books: Indomitable Spirit: The Ed Reeves Story ©Robert Louis Bernard Compact Disc: Alone in the Breach: A Chronological History of the epic Battle of Chosin During the Korean War ©Robert Louis Bernard |
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