Note from author, Tom Fulton’s: I have a comprehensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics and modus operandi, making the story unusual in that it tells the tale from both sides. The first excerpt tells of how a mixed group of guerrilla recruits and trained escorts encounter some hardships during their exfiltration to Mozambique for training.
“As the flatness of the terrain also defied the deployment of security force observation posts, it was possible for the group to light in a small campfire. This little indulgence assisted in keeping the wild animals and mosquitoes at bay.
They sat around on the first evening, with a feeling of more relaxation than the preceding week. All removed their footwear as Tadios watched. The men whom he predicted would encounter problems suffered terrible discomfort in those first few days. Blisters deteriorated to open sores, and Aaron administered to the worst afflicted with liberal quantities of antiseptic ointment, but this never stopped the
August 13, 1928-March 12, 2021
STUART, FL â Elizabeth Mitchell Montgomery was born August 13, 1928 in Topsfield, Massachusetts, the fourth child of Ulster-Scots parents from Northern Ireland and the farms of County Armagh. Sarah Mitchell had left for Belfast to work in the linen factories before boarding an immigrant ship to Boston from the port of Londonderry. Joseph Montgomery had done the same â sailing from Londonderry to the port of New York. Sheâd made her way to Wellesley, he to Brookline. She as a domestic and a dressmaker; he as a groom and then a chauffeur and a gardener.
Born at home in the chauffeurâs cottage on the Cummings estate, Elizabeth spent treasured summers in Topsfield; her father planted a Victory Garden, yearly they attended the Topsfield Fair. In the remainder of the year she was a Boston girl from the all-Irish triple-decker-householder neighborhood of Allston.
From left: Jerry Speyer, Rob Speyer, Bill Rudin, Peter Malkin and Anthony Malkin
Seymour Durst and his brothers built six Manhattan buildings in a 12-year run. Paul and Seymour Milstein built 10 in about the same amount of time. And Lew and Jack Rudin built 11 in two decades.
The breakneck pace of development which was largely clustered in the 1960s and the 1980s by those three families, and a slew of others, laid the foundation for many of New York City’s most established real estate dynasties. (Think Tishman, Fisher, Malkin, Resnick, LeFrak, Rose, and Zeckendorf.)
Indeed, after passing down their real estate portfolios from one generation to the next, many of those families are sitting on bricks-and-mortar fortunes today.