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Donald Mitchell Brown, Jr. (born June 3, 1960) is an American author, attorney, and former United States Navy JAG Officer. He has published fifteen books on the United States military, including eleven military-genre novels, the best known of which is Treason (2005) in which radical Islamic clerics infiltrate the United States Navy Chaplain Corps. He has published four works of military nonfiction, including his national bestseller, The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II (2017). Brown may be best known for his work as legal counsel to Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who had been convicted of murder by a military court-martial at Fort Bragg when his platoon became involved in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2011, and his authorship of the 2019 book Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance. On November 15, 2019, President Donald Trump pardoned Lorance, and the book is considered to be a factor in leading to that pardon. Between the release of Travesty of Justice on March 31, 2019, and Lorance's pardon on November 15, 2019, Brown made numerous national television appearances and penned a number of national Op-eds urging President Trump to free and exonerate Lieutenant Lorance. On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, November 27, 2019, Brown and Lorance appeared on Hannity, the nightly national broadcast on the Fox News Channel to discuss the presidential pardon and release. Early life and education Brown was born in Plymouth in Washington County, North Carolina, on June 3, 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Juris Doctor degree from Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. Legal career Brown spent five years as a military attorney in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. He earned a nonresident certificate in International Law from the Naval War College, and published a legal position paper in the Navy's Law Review on how to defend against temporary injunctions filed against the military. He remained on inactive status with the Navy until 1999, when he separated from the service as a lieutenant commander. Brown also worked as a special assistant to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California.He is currently licensed to practice in North and South Carolina, and is the owner of Brown & Associates, PLLC, a law firm located in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he practices law in the areas of civil litigation, military law, criminal defense, family law, and estate planning. In 2018, Brown joined the legal team as one of four military JAG officers representing Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, and in 2019 published the book Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance. Lorance had been convicted for second-degree murder in 2013 by a military court-martial, when American paratroopers in his platoon on his command fired on three men on a motorcycle in Afghanistan who were speeding towards their position. In Travesty of Justice, Brown laid out the defense contentions, including the claim that Army prosecutors withheld biometrics evidence proving that the motorcycle riders were enemy Taliban bombmakers. In a series of national television appearances and Op-eds for Fox News in the summer of 2019, Brown pressed Lorance's case further, urging President Donald Trump to provide presidential relief for Lorance, and accused the military justice system of corruption for the prosecutions of Lorance, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, and Army Green Beret Matt Golsteyn. Authorship Brown is the author of Zondervan's Navy Justice series with the fiction works Treason (2005), Hostage (2005), Defiance (2006), Black Sea Affair (2008), and Malacca Conspiracy (2010), in which terrorists launch attacks against oil tankers in the Malacca Straights.In his Pacific Rim series, Brown wrote his sixth novel Thunder in the Morning Calm (2011) on the issue of whether American servicemen who were listed as MIAs may still be alive in North Korea since the Korean War. Brown stated in interviews that he wrote it to bring attention to the issue. His seventh novel Fire of the Raging Dragon, a geopolitical action-thriller set in the South China Sea, was released through HarperCollins publishers in November 2012.Brown wrote Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six (2015) on the August 2011 downing of a United States Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter in the War in Afghanistan which killed the air crew along with seven Afghan military personnel and 17 members of Navy SEAL Team Six. Brown retells the wartime action, explains the life stories of the service members killed that day, and examines the official military explanation of the incident contained in the infamous Colt Report, arguing that series of events were gross incompetence or a massive cover-up. In March 2017, Brown released his nonfiction work The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II. The book features the true story of Captain Jerry Yellin, U.S. Army Air Force, who flew the final combat mission of World War II over Japan on August 15, 1945, from Iwo Jima, and focuses on the last six months of the air war against Japan, flown by American fighter pilots who were stationed on Iwo Jima, who arrived on the island in March 1945, and remained there until the war's end.In August 2017, Brown and Yellin appeared together to kick off the book's release at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California to discuss the book and Yellin's experiences in the war.Publishers Weekly announced that the book had been named to it national bestseller's list for hardcover nonfiction for the week ending August 7, 2017. The popular magazine and website Townhall named Last Fighter Pilot as one of "10 World War II Books Every American Should Read." Published works Books Navy Justice Series Treason (Zondervan Publishing, 2005) ISBN 0310259339 Hostage (Zondervan Publishing, 2006) ISBN 0310259347 Defiance (Zondervan Publishing, 2007) ISBN 0310272130 Black Sea Affair (Zondervan Publishing, 2007) ISBN 0310272149 Malacca Conspiracy (Zondervan Publishing 2010) ISBN 0310272157 Destiny (Mountainview Books, LLC, 2014) ISBN 9781941291061Pacific Rim Series Thunder in the Morning Calm (Zondervan Publishing, 2011) ISBN 0310330149 Fire of the Raging Dragon (Zondervan Publishing, 2012) ISBN 9780310410447 Storming the Black Ice (Harper Collins Publishing, 2014) ISBN 9780310410454Navy JAG Series Detained (Harper Collins Publishing, 2015) ISBN 9780310338055 Code 13 (Zondervan Publishing, 2016) ISBN 0310338077 Nonfiction Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, through Lyons Press - 2015) ISBN 1493007467 The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II (Salem Media.... 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  • Das Jahr der Rache synopsis, comments

    Das Jahr der Rache

    Jonathan Freedland & Dietmar Schmidt

    Madison Webb, StarJournalistin der L. A. Times, ist fassungslos, als ihre jüngere Schwester an einer Überdosis Heroin stirbt und die Polizei sich weigert, Ermittlungen aufzunehmen....

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    Selected Poems

    Osip Mandelshtam

    James Greene's acclaimed translations of the poetry of Osip Mandelshtam, now in an extensively revised and augmented edition.

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    The Houston Crime Scene Collection

    DiAnn Mills

    Bestselling author DiAnn Mills's romantic suspense Crime Scene: Houston novels are now available in one ecollection.The ChaseTo the FBI it’s a cold case. To Kariss Walker it’s a ho...

  • Not The Whole Story synopsis, comments

    Not The Whole Story

    Angela Huth

    'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Country LifeThis short volume has turned ou...

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    The Navy Jag Collection

    Don Brown

    Code 13Caroline is just getting her feet wet at the prestigious Code 13, but is thankful for at least one familiar faceher old flame, P.J. MacDonald. He loops her into the assignme...

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    Lord Jim

    Joseph Conrad

    'A murmur of dismay and horror ran through the crowd at the sight of that familiar token. The old nakhoda stared at it, and suddenly let out one great fierce cry, deep from the che...

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    Don Shula

    Carlo DeVito

    In Don Shula: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History, acclaimed sports historian Carlo DeVito captures the story of one of the greatest coaches in sports history. First...

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    Free to Be

    Shirin Etessam

    Do you find yourself feeling unfulfilled? Unworthy? Like you’ve checked all the boxes and built a life, a career, a family but still, something is missing?From an early age we’re t...

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    The Peter Lawford Story

    Patricia Lawford Stewart & Ted Schwarz

    As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by th...

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    Thunder in the Morning Calm

    Don Brown

    Lieutenant Commander “Gunner” McCormick is assigned as an intelligence officer to Carrier Strike Force 10, being deployed to the Yellow Sea at the invitation of South Korea for joi...

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    How to Heal a Broken Heart

    Rosie Green

    'The poster girl for divorce.' The Times'If you've ever had your heart broken (and who hasn't) Rosie Green's How to Heal a Broken Heart is your best friend. Honest, comforting and ...

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    The Dan Brown Companion

    Simon Cox

    With its indepth look at some of the themes and reallife stories behind the fiction, The Dan Brown Companion gives a unique insight into the world of one of the most successful bes...

  • The Greatest Classics Ever Written synopsis, comments

    The Greatest Classics Ever Written

    Herman Hesse, Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dante, Henrik Ibsen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Confucius, William Makepeace Thackeray, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Von Arnim, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, D. H. Lawrence, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, Weedon Grossmith, H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, James Matthew Barrie, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, L.M. Montgomery, Homer, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Gaston Leroux, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kalidasa, Valmiki, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Cao Xueqin, Princess Der Ling, Inazo Nitobe, Kakuzo Okakura & Soseki Natsume

    eartnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest world classics: Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (He...

  • Don A. Brown v. United States America synopsis, comments

    Don A. Brown v. United States America

    United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

    Before STEPHENS, BONE and POPE, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.

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    Inspirations

    Paulo Coelho

    'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a sort of reminder of something else, a small token of something ...

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    Treason

    Don Brown

    The stakes are high . . . and the entire world is waiting for the verdict. The Navy has uncovered a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps, i...

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    Hostage

    Don Brown

    Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most. JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing...

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    The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James & Geoffrey Moore

    When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the fr...

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    The Hunt

    Andy McNab

    From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventurefilled and actionpacked new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces ...

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    The Folds

    Clint Townsend

    On July 23rd, 1978, Danny Lee Albright turned ten years old. As a birthday present, his father, Tommy Lee, surprised Danny and his four friends with a trip to meet Superman at the ...

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    Outsmart Your Brain

    Daniel T. Willingham

    In this revolutionary, comprehensive, and accessible guide on how the brain learns, discover how to study more efficiently and effectively, shrug away exam stress, and most of all,...

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    Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room

    Tom Burke & Reid Oslin

    With five Division I national championships to its creditmost recently in 2012the men’s hockey program at Boston College is a force to be reckoned with year after year. Tales from ...

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    Paradiso

    Dante & Robin Kirkpatrick

    Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, c...

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    Llamas

    Ted Dekker & Erin Healy

    Aunque el pasado de Janeal se había quemado, ahora se levantaba de las cenizas.Años atrás, el Gypsy Kumpania donde Janeal Mikkado vivía fue atacada por desconocidos. Al estar su me...

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    The Last Fighter Pilot

    Don Brown & Jerry Yellin

    A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "mustread" book.From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots...

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    Cleveland Browns A - Z

    Roger Gordon & Mike Pruitt

    A musthave book for any Cleveland Browns fan, this updated edition of Cleveland Browns A to Z is compiled alphabetically for easy accessibility. The book offers a complete histor...

  • En un instante synopsis, comments

    En un instante

    Ted Dekker

    De la mente de Ted Dekker, autor de gran éxito de ventas según el New York Times, viene la pregunta: "Si usted supiera el resultado de sus decisiones, ¿determinaría eso lo que hici...

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    What the Bears Know

    Steve Searles & Chris Erskine

    The incredible story of how one man went from a hired hunter to becoming one of America’s top champions for this iconic animal. A Los Angeles Times and USA Today BestsellerIn this ...

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    The Science of Why, Volume 4

    Jay Ingram

    Back by popular demand: a brandnew volume of science queries, quirks, and quandaries in the megabestselling Science of Why series, sure to enlighten and entertain readers of all ag...

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    The Ice Cream Sundae Book

    Michael Turback & Bonnie Matthews

    Recreate the classic and nostalgic flavors of your youth with the bestloved recipes in ice cream sundae historylearn how to make your favorite ice creams and toppings: French vanil...

  • Oliver Twist synopsis, comments

    Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens

    With an essay by Graham Greene.'A parish child the orphan of a workhouse the humble, halfstarved drudge to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied ...

  • Shots Fired synopsis, comments

    Shots Fired

    Joseph K. Loughlin & Kate Clark Flora

    Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in reallife casesToday’s media is filled with discussions about officerinvolved shootings. ...

  • Detained synopsis, comments

    Detained

    Don Brown

    A man and his son dreamed of America’s freedom, but the dream became a nightmare when they ended up at Guantánamo Bay.Hasan Makari and his son, Najib, both Lebanese nationals, have...

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    Franchise

    Seth Coleman

    FRANCHISE is a supernatural thriller that helps us understand spiritual warfare on a personal level. With God’s awesome angels protecting him, Daniel is led through a trial that ta...