"Fight of the Phoenix" is a historical personal account of duties as an Advisor in the Delta of Vietnam in 1972. The author counters claims of other Advisors and Academics and sets the record straight on the vicious nature of the Communist insurgency that killed their own people and the spectacular success of the Phoenix Program throughout the country and especially in the Delta Region MR-4 in targeting and neutralizing the enemy Viet Cong insurgents.

American Heartland flows from the Midwestern childhood of the author who learned the values of loyalty, bravery, and honesty with love for God and country. LTC Peterson's poetry is a unique portrayal of those values, as a substantive down to earth word painting, but with a transcending perspective, yet substantive down to earth painting with words everyone can unequalled by modern poets. His down to earth prose combined with his acumen, wit, and wisdom is comparable to Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac. Like Longfellow he portrays a nostalgic past and like Poe, Roy's mystic moments in Fall Fantasy are seductive. Two sections of humor, however, set him apart as a poet for the ages.

Guardian Angel is a kaleidoscope of vivid poetic imagery and begins with "To all the angels I have known and some I never knew a thousand pardons for the stress I must have put you through." Guardian Angels protect the good from bad consequences. LTC Roy Peterson is the embodiment of the renaissance soldier, statesman, and literary gentleman and harkens back to the likes of Poe and Longfellow, but with the romantic urges of Hemingway and Lord Byron.

American Heritage contains a comprehensive collection of the best poetry previously published in three volumes, "Beyond Darkness and Light," "Guardian Angel" and "American Heartland Poetry." Roy Peterson is the quintessential poetry and prose author hearkening back to the great poets in the Pantheon that is the American Heritage of Poetry. Compare his works to Wordsworth, Longfellow, Poe, and Frost for subject variety, style variations, and readable yet complex thought integration making him the poet of and for everyone.

Guardian Angel is a kaleidoscope of vivid poetic imagery and begins with "To all the angels I have known and some I never knew a thousand pardons for the stress I must have put you through." Guardian Angels protect the good from bad consequences. LTC Roy Peterson is the embodiment of the renaissance soldier, statesman, and literary gentleman and harkens back to the likes of Poe and Longfellow, but with the romantic urges of Hemingway and Lord Byron.

Albert is a real cat born in Moscow, Russia. His father was a European Champion Chinchilla Persian and his mother was a purebred from Missouri, USA. Albert has many secrets including how his mother and father got together, how he flew off a high apartment balcony in Russia and survived, and how he escaped coyotes in California. Albert's least favorite picture with him dressed as Santa is included in the book. Albert is in a Christian family and loves to hear the Bible read. Pictures of Albert laying on the Bible are prescious.

American Heritage contains a comprehensive collection of the best poetry previously published in three volumes, "Beyond Darkness and Light," "Guardian Angel" and "American Heartland Poetry." Roy Peterson is the quintessential poetry and prose author hearkening back to the great poets in the Pantheon that is the American Heritage of Poetry. Compare his works to Wordsworth, Longfellow, Poe, and Frost for subject variety, style variations, and readable yet complex thought integration making him the poet of and for everyone.

American Heartland flows from the Midwestern childhood of the author who learned the values of loyalty, bravery, and honesty with love for God and country. LTC Peterson's poetry is a unique portrayal of those values, as a substantive down to earth word painting, but with a transcending perspective, yet substantive down to earth painting with words everyone can unequalled by modern poets. His down to earth prose combined with his acumen, wit, and wisdom is comparable to Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac. Like Longfellow he portrays a nostalgic past and like Poe, Roy's mystic moments in Fall Fantasy are seductive. Two sections of humor, however, set him apart as a poet for the ages.

"Fight of the Phoenix" is a historical personal account of duties as an Advisor in the Delta of Vietnam in 1972. The author counters claims of other Advisors and Academics and sets the record straight on the vicious nature of the Communist insurgency that killed their own people and the spectacular success of the Phoenix Program throughout the country and especially in the Delta Region MR-4 in targeting and neutralizing the enemy Viet Cong insurgents.