It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945."

    Joseph Mahoney, the last colonial commissioner in the spectacular Kariba Gorge, is there to witness the death throes. Somehow, he must also ease the birth pangs of the new Africa that will take its place. His companions are Samson, his Matabele servant, and Suzie, the girl he loves.But Mahoney and Suzie are drifting apart, and now Samson has been accused of murder. And all too quickly, it seems, the country is heading towrds a bloodbath of revenge.Hold My Hand I'm Dying - a compelling story of freedom, friendship and love in the face of hatred, violence and death.

    

    Fiction

    The American Colonel in command at Okinawa thought he might win General's stars if Okinawa had modern housing, schools, progressive organizations and profitable business. But the Colonel's plans laid an egg in Tobiki village. Captain Fisby, in charge there, just couldn't get "American" ideas across. Instead, in a weak moment, he accepted a gift of two geisha girls, who mobilized Tobiki--with explosive results for the Colonel, the Captain, and the community.

    It surges through the last years of Tsar Nicholas' reign and charts the climactic end of an era.Intimately involved with the great evens of those tumultuous, bloody years is the highly placed von Glasman family. Elegant, wealthy, and handsome, landowners, financial advisers to the Tsar, and united through marriage to the royal family itself, the von Glasmans were practicing Jews-and as such subject to tragic and oppressive persecution.The exotic story of the von Glasmans Tragic fall from the peak of romantic security to the disruption and exile includes a huge cast of characters. Among them are:Ronya von Glasman-mercurial beauty, ho loves life almost as much as her blonde Tartar. Ultimately, Ronya must make a choice between these two passions when, in the end, they conflict.Boris-Ronya's vital Tartar husband.The fruit of Ronya's turbulent marriage-an impressive line of courageous sons and a loyal daughter-in-law- who become unwilling pawns in the deepening political crisis at court. Tamara-Boris' tempestuous gypsy mistress.The story of the von Glasman family is in the great tradition of such epic novels as War and Peace, Gone with the Wind, and Anthony Adverse, and it is perhaps because the period she has brought to life is a part of her own life that Rush Freemon Solomon has been able to blend fact and fiction with the expertise of the masters.