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A character actor, Askin, born Jewish in Austria, fled persecution by the Nazis first to France, then to the U.S., and served in the U.S. Army during WWII. He appeared in more than 50 films and countless TV shows, and is most remembered as the evil-looking Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1965 TV comedy Hogan's Heroes. He retired to his native Vienna in 1994, and died there June 3. He was 97. From This is True for 29 May 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Robert Clary List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $11.53 Editorial Review: Robert Clary is best known for his portrayal of the spirited Corporal Louis Lebeau on the popular television series Hogan's Heroes (on the air from 1965 to 1971 and widely syndicated around the globe). But it is Clary's experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust that infuse his compelling memoir with an honest recognition of life's often horrific reality, a recognition that counters his glittering five-decade career as an actor, singer, and artist and distinguishes this book from those by other entertainers.  By: LaVerne Cash List Price: $12.99 Amazon Price: $12.99 Editorial Review: Take the characters from the 1960's hit sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, and find out what happens when those we trust may be the enemy and those we fear may be friends. It is World War II and both the Axis and the Allied powers believe the other to be further advanced in biological warfare. Need-to-know prevails on both sides. Colonel Alistair Wembley, an operative for British secret intelligence Service, and his OSS counterpart, Mike Anders, read a cryptic message from an agent: the Germans are threatening biological warfare. They send in Colonel Robert Hogan-code name: Goldilocks-to find the truth. The agent is a traitor. Hogan is captured and interrogated by Gestapo agent Emil Gottfried, a psychopath and sadist. German-American Mike Anders volunteers to parachute into Germany and save Hogan. Anders enlists the aid of Kurt Schell, an expert on tetrodotoxin, a poison that alters respiratory and cardiac functions, giving one the appearance of being dead. Can Anders be trusted? When those in power make decisions, do they differentiate between right and wrong?  By: Henry Dunant List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: $0.99 Editorial Review: The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland, that set the standards for international law for humanitarian concerns. They chiefly concern the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war. They do not affect the use of weapons in war, which are covered by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the Geneva Protocol on the use of gas and biological weapons of 1925.  By: Robert Hogan List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $16.99 Editorial Review: Journey back to an Age of Aces! The Yanks and English know him as "The Red Falcon." The French call him "L' Faucon Rouge." And the Germans curse him as "Verdamnt Der Rot Falker". Meet Barry Rand. Unjustly wanted for a firing squad on his own side of the lines-facing death from the Germans on the other. He is a man abandoned by his country, but still willing to die for it! Along with his aide, the great African warrior Sika, The Red Falcon fights WWI on his own terms. Flying the blood-red crate they built themselves from parts of crashed planes, they are the deadliest pair on the Front. Before pilot and airplane demonstrator Robert J. Hogan created G-8 and His Battle Aces, he created The Red Falcon which ran for 5 years in Dare-Devil Aces before moving to G-8. Here is the premiere volume of his collected exploits. Stories in Volume 1: The Red Falcon, The Bat Squad, The Masked Drome, Hurricane Buzzard, Midnight Staffel, The Death Squadron, The Hooded Squadron, Dynamite Cargo (G8 crossover)  By: Robert J. Hogan List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $16.99 Editorial Review: Journey Back to an Age of Aces! All along the Western Front the Germans curse them "Verdamnt Der Rot Falker!" They were Barry Rand, Yank ace and his giant Senagalese aide, Sika. Their blood-red ship was a patched-up crate of salvaged wreckage-their drome a hidden tarmac in the Vosges Mountains. Yet from Paris to Berlin they were known as the most deadly pair of hellcats that ever blazed a death trail through Boche skies! This exciting second volume of the collected adventures of The Red Falcon by Robert J. Hogan includes the following gripping air-war tales: S.O.S. Patrol, The Falcon Twins, Black Buzzards, The Headless Pilot, and The Invisible Patrol (with guest appearances by Smoke Wade and The Sky Devil). Also included is David Saunders' in-depth look at the life and art of Popular Publication's master aviation artist, Frederick Blakeslee. |
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