Chris Schweizer's Old Blog

Enemy Ace (from the DC Comics WWI flying ace series) and Captain Nemo (from H.G. Wells’s  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea .  These are two...

Uh-oh!  I've been posting about this on various social media platforms, but have forgotten to talk about it on the blog!  Changing lands...

Happy International Women's Day!   Usually when we think of women combatants in the past few centuries (at least in America), we thi...

Brigadier Gerard, from the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Gerard is the bravest, most dashing, most romantic, chivalrous, va...

I first read Dr. Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh back in college, and reread it this year when an opportunity to work on a project rel...

When Theodore Roosevelt became police commissioner of New York in 1895, the NYPD was its most dangerous and powerful criminal ent...

My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-ca...