title: High Skies and Fat Horses, A Novel of War and Human Imperfection
author: William J. Wallisch
description: William J. Wallisch is a retired professor of English who's been a life-long collector of military character sketches and tall tales. He's filled many notebooks with ''war stories'' penned during his own twenty-three years of active duty service. Typical of his essays on military heroism is ''In the Belly of the Whale,'' published in <i>War, Literature, and the Arts.</i> His University of Southern California doctoral dissertation was a study of ''The Integration of Women into the United States Air Force Academy.'' This first novel was originally a collection of short stories, taken from what he refers to as his ''dark notebook.'' Though set in Korea and Vietnam, it amalgamates a variety of characters and tales, gathered from many assignments around the world. When asked if the story is a memoir, Bill replies, ''No, but there's a little of the Appo Kid in all of us.'' He divides his time between Colorado Springs and Leadville, Colorado.
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  Preface
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  IN reissuing this book, with considerable alterations and additions, it has
  been thought expedient, for uniformity, to give it the title under which it
  was published in London and Leipzig. The merely descriptive name of the
  original American edition (published by the late E. L. G. Steele) is retained
  as a sub-title in order to prevent misunderstandings by purchasers—if the book
  be so fortunate as to have any.
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Horseman in the Sky
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  