The Improbable Journeys Of Billy Battles

By: Ronald E. Yates

Discover the amazing, saga of a mysterious man who lives an improbable life of adventure, peril, transgression, and redemption in Asia, Latin America, & Europe between 1860 and 1960 and who remains largely unknown to his family until a great-grandson uncovers his private journals years after his death.

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Book Description

Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore.

Billy is far from his Kansas roots and his improbable journeys are just starting.

The year is 1894 and Billy is aboard the S S China sailing to the inscrutable Far East. Trouble is not far behind. He has met a mysterious and possibly dangerous German Baroness. He has locked horns with malevolent agents of the German government and battled ferocious Chinese and Malay pirates in the South China Sea.

Later, he is embroiled in the bloody anti-French insurgency in Indochina-which quite possibly makes him the first American combatant in a country that eventually will become Vietnam. Then, in the Philippines, he is thrust into the Spanish-American War and the brutal anti-American insurgency that follows. But Billy's troubles are only beginning.

As the 19th century ends and the 20th century begins, he finds himself entangled with political opportunists, spies, revolutionaries, and an assortment of vindictive and dubious characters of both sexes. How will Billy handle those people and the challenges they present? The answers are just ahead.

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