BOOKS WRITTEN BY DLI FACULTY AND ALUMNI
and published in past newsletters

Taking on the Middle East - By Howard Rowland - See more info at - http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXVII-Jan2008.htm
This book is the story of the author's experiences both living and traveling in seven countries of the Middle East during the years 1962-65, when he was a young man between 23 and 26 years of age. They include a year of service as a Russian linguist on a small U.S. Army listening post on the Black Sea in northern Turkey, six months of residence among the locals in Aleppo, Syria following an overseas discharge from the military, and two journeys amounting to several months of low-budget travel, on busses and by means of hitchhiking, in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Egypt. To order copies contact the autor at (831) 375-4477 or at hdrowland@earthlink.net. The price for "Taking on the Middle East" is $35 (including shipment and taxes).

Barking Her Way to the Top - By Howard Rowland - See more info at - http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXVII-Jan2008.htm
In “Barking her Way to the Top: A Collie Pursues in the Civil Service,” author Howard Rowland uses humor and imaginative fiction to satirize life in the civil service through the medium of a super intelligent dog. To order copies contact the autor at (831) 375-4477 or at hdrowland@earthlink.net. The price for "Barking Her Way to the Top" is $15 (including shipment and taxes).

Security Clearance Manual - By William H. Henderson - See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXXI-Jan2009.htm
Security Clearance Manual will help people understand how the security clearance process actually works. The book provides de-tailed explanations of the investigative and adjudicative standards and procedures with step by step instructions for completing the SF86, tips for mitigating suitability issues, numerous case examples, and information on how to get a copy of your investigative file. The book is intended for people applying for initial clearances and those preparing for their periodic reinvestigations. To order this book, please visit the Last Post Publishing website at . http://lastpostpublishing.com/default.aspx

Dead Drop - By William H. Henderson - See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXXI-Jan2009.htm
This is a novel entitled Dead Drop that takes place at the Presidio of Monterey involving DLI personnel. The book is an espionage thriller set during the first Gulf War that vividly reveals old cold war rivalries that never died. Four years after “glasnost” and “perestrokia” changed the foundation of the former Soviet Union, U.S. intelligence agencies were chanting the mantra, “the threat has changed,” but did it? To order this book, please visit the Last Post Publishing website at http://lastpostpublishing.com/default.aspx

Struggle for Survival - By Regina Todd - See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXV-July2007.htm
The book My Struggle for Survival (2006, Park Place Publications) www.parkplacepublications.com outlines the life of Ms. Regina Todd, a retired Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) faculty member, who was a member of the Russian faculty for 33 years, her life from childhood through her choice of Monterey as a place to settle in the United States. An autobiography, the book begins with her birth and childhood in Leningrad, under the Stalinist terror. It goes on to relate her horrific experiences as a victim of the 900-day siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany during which time more than one million city residents died of bombings and starvation. Next, it traces her life in Central Asia, her law studies and graduation from Leningrad University in 1951, her work as a corporation lawyer for five years in the former Soviet Union, and her flight to Europe and the United States.

Presidio of Monterey - By Harold E. Raugh, Jr. See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterIV(Oct04).htm
The entire rousing tale is the subject of Presidio of Monterey by retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., the Command Historian of the Presidio of Monterey. Raugh's new book tells the story of the Presidio through rarely seen photos chosen from the Presidio's archive and from other sources.

The Eye of the Viper - By David DeHart. See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterVI(Apr05).htm
"The Eye of The Viper." published in 2005 by Booklocker.Com. A synopsis and excerpts from the book are available at www.TheEyeOfTheViper.com. DeHart says it's a fast-paced, entertaining story of Military Intelligence Agents Dan, Bull and Nateesha, who are sent to Izmir, Turkey, to track down a renegade Kurdish terrorist, code-named "The Viper." The trio of Army "Spooks" treats the reader to a ride-a-long through the exotic and historic Aegean seacoast region of Western Turkey.

Of Rice and Men - By Richard Galli. See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterIX(Jan2006).htm
Lead character of this novel is a DLI graduate. Read an excerpt at: http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780891418856&view=excerpt

Gold in the Shadow - By Richard Marcotte. See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterX(Apr2006).htm
GOLD IN THE SHADOW was published in 2000 and written as an archaeological thriller, in the same general vein of the Indiana Jones, Clive Cussler and Tombraider stories. Although the author was not able to use his German language skills from DLI in the mixed Egyptian and Andean settings of the novel, linguists should appreciate the appearance of five other languages mixed into the story, including Quechua, Yaminhua, Machiguenga, Spanish and ancient Egyptian. The plot is a fanciful blend of Andean and Egyptian mythologies set in the present day Madre de Dios jungle of Peru, and follows the misadventures of an expedition seeking the legendary lost city of Paititi. The book is available through special order at most major chains and via Amazon.com."

Past Imperfect, Present Progressive - By Kerry Wood. See more info at http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXIV-Apr2007.htm
This book is a gallimaufry of reminiscences by a vocal member of the Silent Generation. Kerry Wood traces his childhood during the late Depression and World War II to adulthood and seniority in stories and poems born of experiences as a four-year-old consigned to a military boarding school, an awkward adolescent, an undergraduate at Yale, and a career high-school teacher. Enjoy moments of melancholy punctuating a lifetime of exuberant playfulness, in such unlikely areas as Shakespearean tragedy, English grammar, poetry analysis, Scrabble, spelling bees, and service in the lowest ranks of the U.S. Army.

The Man With a Thousand Faces - El Hombre de las Mil Caras - By Ben De La Selva. See more info at: http://www.dli-alumni.org/Newsletters/NewsletterXXII-Apr2009.htm
The multicultural and cosmopolitan life experience of the author shows up in the stories presented in this book. In "Aurora" and "The Fountain of Youth," he writes in the magical and occult literary genre that is shared by many Latin American writers, and in "The Man with a Thousand Faces" and "Boarding School" he tells two brief tales about life in his native Nicaragua in a realistic and humorous vein that would definitely appeal to both US and Latin American readers. "The Front Line Interrogator" is the product of the author’s own military experience in Vietnam, as he shows how US Army interrogators and their Vietnamese detainees attempt to outwit each other. In "The Arabic Student" he makes an interesting effort to portray the life of an American-born Hispanic student who, against his will, has been assigned by the Army to a lengthy course of intensive study of one of the world’s most difficult languages and how he copes with the situation. "The Suicide Counselor" and "A Fatal Error" use the common device of American short stories known as the surprise ending and leave the reader gasping for breath. De La Selva no doubt has a large number of additional stories up his sleeve, and hopefully he will share them with readers in more such short-story collections of his in the future.