Robert H. Adleman was an American

United States

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 novelist and historian

Historian

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A photographer and tail gunner in World War II

World War II

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, Adleman was a businessman and a historian who began a collaboration with U.S. Army Colonel George Walton

George Walton

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 to write books 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

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. 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, Oregon

Jacksonville, Oregon

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 to this day. Adleman died in 1995. His wife and two daughters scattered his ashes on the ocean at the beach in Malibu.

Selected bibliography

• 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
  The Black Box
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  (1973)
• Alias Big Cherry: The Confessions of a Master Criminal (1973)
• Sweetwater Fever (1986)

External links

• NY Times Obituary
• Hoover Institution Archives of Adleman's papers at Stanford University.