Robert H. Adleman
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Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian, was born on May 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died on November 16, 1995 in Ashland, Oregon.
A photographer and tail gunner in WWII Adleman was a businessman and a historian who began a collaboration with U.S. Army Colonel George Walton to write novels about World War II, the most successful of which was 1966's The Devil's Brigade. A story about the 1st Special Service Force nicknamed the "Devil's Brigade", the book would be turned into a motion picture of the same name.
After selling the movie rights, Adleman and his wife moved from Philadelphia to Malibu, California. They remained there for a number of years until they acquired a large ranch property in Oregon. At which point they opened the restaurant The Bella Union, featuring the peach baboo a cocktail named after their grandson's childhood treat. The Bella Union remains successful in Jacksonville to this day. He died in 1995. His wife and two daughters scattered his ashes on the ocean at the beach in Malibu.
Bibliography: (partial)
- The Devil's Brigade (1966) (written with Col. George Walton)
- Rome Fell Today (1968) (written with Col. George Walton)
- The Champagne Campaign (1969) (written with Col. George Walton)
- The Bloody Benders (1970)
- Annie Deane (1971)
- What's Really Involved in Writing and Selling Your Book (1972)
- The Black Box (1973)
- Alias Big Cherry: The Confessions of a Master Criminal (1973)
- Sweetwater Fever (1986)
