All books using the keywords: Christopher Jacobellis

Pawns in the Sugarcane is an action-packed story based on American covert operations on the island of Cuba months before the outbreak of the Spanish American War. This work of Historical Fiction tells the story of an American officer and his six Marines that were sent to Cuba under orders in the guise of army deserters. Their mission was to train members of the Cuba Libre and survey possible landing sights for potential offensive operations against the occupying Spanish. Our hero finds intrigue when his orders take him to places he wasn't supposed to go. He and his men find themselves in situations that test the boundaries of his authority and mission when they collide with the realitie ...

Pawns in the Sugarcane Book II is the thrilling sequel to Pawns in the Sugarcane. It’s a fictitious story set in 1898 Cuba, just at the outset of the Spanish American War. This little written about chapter in American history plays as the perfect backdrop for this tale of international intrigue. The story followed the life of Luke Sheehan, a United States cavalry officer who finds himself placed in a precarious position near the closing days of his commission. Pawns in the Sugarcane leaves off with Captain Sheehan languishing in a Bermuda Prison, where he is being questioned by Chief Inspector Yardley of Her Majesties Bermuda Constabulary in regard to the murder of a Spanish officer an ...

Pawns in the Sugarcane Book III, "Empire of Blood," is the last in a three-book series spanning the days just before the end of the Spanish American War into the Philippine Rebellion of 1901. The hero of this series, Major Luke Sheehan, who journeyed from being a frontier cavalry officer in 1897 (Pawns In the Sugarcane) to an active participant during the Spanish American War (Pawns in the Sugarcane Book II) comes to the end of his service as a Secret Service agent operating in the Philippines during the 1899 Philippine rebellion, within these pages. The situations in this fictitious work are based on actual historical persons and actual events that transpired between 1899 and 1901 duri ...

The Journal of Virgil Fray Lovejoy, 'My Struggle Through the Civil War,' (Small Print Version) is a gripping novel taken straight from the letters, newspaper articles, first-hand accounts, and journals of Civil War soldiers. This extensively researched work is the brainchild of author Chris Jacobellis who spent over 30 years as a Civil War living historian hobbyist. Follow Virgil from his days as a college student to his farm during the last days of the Civil War. Take this journey back in time before political correctness, when the truth was pure and factual, not contrived to serve a particular agenda. The language is rough and honest. Virgil Lovejoy will grow as a man and a human bei ...