Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Frederic Franklyn Van de Water

Born: 1890
Died: 1968 (aged 78)
Bio: Frederic Franklyn Van de Water was an American journalist and writer. He was an honorary sergeant in the New York State Troopers. In 1924, he travelled in the West Indies investigated and reported about rum pirates and Chinese smugglers.
Known for:
- The real McCoy (1931)
- Glory-hunter: A Life of General Custer (1934)
- Grey riders (1922)
- Rudyard Kipling's Vermont feud (1937)
- The Reluctant Republic: Vermont, 1724-1791 (1941)