Command influence

by Robert Shaines

Overview

This is a story of international political pressure working its way down to change the lives of three Air Force personnel and their being charged with premeditated murder of an oriental man in war torn Korea of 1953. The author was very young Air Force JAG officer charged with the defense of another young Air Force officer, on trial for his life.It is a true story that reads like a novel. It ultimately involved the President of the United States and other powerful Senators and military officials including the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the United States Suprreme Court.
It is a story of the war and little known facts ablout the political climate in war torn South Korea. His book has been compared favorably wioth the book by David Halberstram titled "The Coldest Winter." For more information see the author's web site: http://www.rshaines.com

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012243478
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	11/23/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	430
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert . Shaines is a practicing attorney in Portsmouth, NH. He has had this story on his mind for all of the many years after it unfolded. he lives in Rye, NH with his wife Denise and their two Bichons.
While no stranger to writing this is the author's first published book. It has received many excellent reviews and has won a national award for History.
Bob Shaines is in the process of writing his second book,which will be a fictional account of issues involving the former Soviet Union, where Bob worked as a contractor to the Defense Nuclear Agency on the Cooperative Threat Reduction Treaty in the early 1990's.

Editorial Reviews

A well told tale of ego and politics subverting justice and a military with a conspicuous lack of honor, set agaist the misery of wartime Korea. Shaines is bell clear in his depiction of military power mongering, the incompetence of many officers and the outrageous roadblocks thrown up against the defense.Shaines tells it in a grippingly direct manner and with an urgent livliness.

Kirkus Review

Some might classify Command Influence as a courtroom drama, personally I don't buy into that. For me it is a window into the world of injustice, and the military and political mind of that time. The larger question is does this type of injustice remain today?
Command Influence is written from the heart. I don't goive stars like other reviewers, but if I did, my advice would be to step outside on a clear night and look upwards.

Simon Barrett

Now, more than 50 years later, after long reflection and with the experience, knowledge and maturity gained through a distingushed career as a practicing attorney, Shaines recounts the entire episode with clarity, insight and objectivity.

Admiral George Kinnear