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An actor, Klemperer is best known as the bumbling camp commandant Colonel Wilhelm Klink from the Hogan's Heroes TV show. Klemperer brought an interesting background to his part: a Jew, he and his family fled Germany just as Hitler came to power. The 1960s show, which is still a cult hit (even in Germany), poked exquisite fun at Germany's World War II machine and won Klemperer two Emmy awards. Klink's ineptitude was in large part his own idea. "He insisted in all the shows that he come out as the loser," said his longtime publicist, Bernie Ilson. "He was sensitive about that. He was worried that the commandant would come out as a winner." He died December 6 at home in New York from cancer. He was 80. From This is True for 10 December 2000 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Robert J. Hogan List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $16.99 Editorial Review: In this grim business of war, The Red Falcon Flies Alone. He carries no flag and owes allegiance to none. But the Falcon is still ready to give the service of his courage, and his guns, to the men who made him an outcast. Join Barry Rand and the great warrior Sika as they fly their patched together plane from their hidden base in the Vosges Mountains to battle the Germans and help win the Great War. In this fourth exciting collection of Robert J. Hogan’s adventures of The Red Falcon, Age of Aces brings you the last of the stories from the Dare-Devil Aces years, including a second cross-over appearance by G-8 and His Battle Aces. Also in this volume is Scott Cranford’s new original story that chronicles The Red Falcon’s beginnings. Stories included: The Invisible Raiders, Boomerang Busters, Hell's Triplets, The Flame Staffel, Black Legion Patrol, Drums of Doom, The Renegade Patrol, The Branded Eagle, Vultures of Vengeance, Flight of the Vultures.  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: Robert Hogan List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $16.99 Editorial Review: Journey Back To An Age Of Aces! He was an outcast ace! The prey of friend and foe alike. From their hidden base in the Vosges Mountains, the crimson wings of the Red Falcon and his aide Sika fly once again into battle skies, waging a war of their own, doling out justice by the power of their blazing guns. Robert J. Hogan's Red Falcon flew through thirty-four stories in the pages of Dare-Devil Aces from 1933 to 1938. Age of Aces Books has gathered together eleven more never before reprinted air-action stories for this third volume in a series of four exciting Red Falcon collections. Also included is Don Hutchison's look back at Harry Steeger, the founder of Popular Publications. In this volume: Thunderbolt Patrol, Dynamite Devils, The Invisible Pilot, Dynamite Vultures, Hell Crashers, Buccaneer Buzzards, SOS Buzzard, Buccaneer Busters, Explosion Buzzard, The Apache Patrol, The Tom-Tom Ace  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.  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? |
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