Books by Robert Lofthouse

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  The Best Year of Our Lives

  Saucon Valley High School, a small school in Pennsylvania’s LeHigh Valley, wasn’t historically known as a football powerhouse. Having to rely on homegrown talent, they’d often lose out to bigger schools with larger recruiting bases.

   

  But 2015 would prove to be different.

  Digging deep and pounding out their final year as Saucon Valley Panthers, cocaptains Zach Thatcher, Evan Culver, Mike Kane, Christian Carvis, and their teammates embarked on a quest for a Pennsylvania state football championship that would defy the odds. Fielding the school’s best team in decades, Head Coach Matt Evancho brought a group of determined young men together for a journey none of them will ever forget.

  With local roots but universal appeal, The Best Year of Our Lives uses recent interviews, personal stories, and media accounts from the time to paint the picture of everything the players, coaches, and local community experienced that storied year-the unity, the disappointments, and the triumphs.

  
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  Honor Through Sacrifice

  “A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere,” President Lyndon Johnson told a senator in March 1965. “But there ain’t no daylight in Vietnam-there’s not a bit.” Even as he said that, he was committing the first US ground combat units and initiating a massive bombing campaign in North Vietnam. Unaware of President Johnson’s private misgivings about the conflict, Gordon Lippman dutifully entered Vietnam as the 3rd Brigade/1st Infantry Division executive officer in September of that year.

  It didn’t take long for his fellow soldiers to figure out that Gordon Lippman was the man they wanted to follow into battle. Overcoming great challenges in the Army, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross and two battlefield commissions and became a hero among heroes. He focused on the mission at hand, rallied his troopers, led from the front, and dodged enemy bullets. A couple of times they hit home, but he came back to fight again! He was one of those studs to come out of small-town America and become a leading member of “The Greatest Generation.”

  This is a sweeping story on the broad landscape of twentieth-century compromise, accommodation, and conflict, from the allied war in Europe to the forgotten victory in Korea to the televised dinnertime war in Vietnam.

  Honor Through Sacrifice has recently been named an Amazon #1 New Release in Korean War Histories and a first place winner in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir in the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Ebook Awards.

  Honor Through Sacrifice has been named an honorable mention in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir in the 2022 Southern California Book Festival.

  Honor Through Sacrifice has been named a first place winner in the category Non-fiction History and a second place winner in the category Biography/Historical in the 4th Quarter 2021 Firebird Book Awards.

  Honor Through Sacrifice has been named a finalist in the category Inspirational in the 2022 Feathered Quill Book Awards.

   

  
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