From This Day Onward [antikvár]

Acknowledgments Many people selflessly offered their services and expertise to me as I was researching this book. I would like to thank Dr. Russell S. Gilmore of the Harbor Defense Museum of New York at Fort Hamilton, who gave me pertinent information on Forts Hamilton and Lafayette and who was kind enough to read the Prologue of this book and pronounce my hero's escape feasible. I also owe a great deal to Kathy Bills at the Western New York Landmark Society for her assistance in making the Rochester section of the book true to the time in which it is set. The help I received from Donald Loker, director of the local history section at the Niagara Falls Public Library, was invaluable in helping me to see the city where I grew up in a totally new light. The information he made available to me added a wonderful veracity to the narrative. In addition, I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to the staff of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and, in particular, to Mark Cedeck of the Barriger Railroad Library branch of this wonderful institution. His patience in providing me with everything from timetables to descriptions of the railroad cars and pictures of the U.S.S. Michigan and the Philo Parsons is very much appreciated. Another enormous, heartfelt thank-you goes to Charles Brown of the same institution. He is a librarian's librarian, and no request for information was too obscure for the multitude of talents he brings to his vocation. His help in researching