Dale Beasley

What I Learned At Bastogne

IN THIS PREQUEL to his Mississippi Top Ten Best Selling Novel, What I Learned at the 'Zoo, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Dale Beasley tells the story of the devilish and charming Dallas Crabtree who saw his well-laid plans waylaid, ambushed for a greater call. One phone call took the college senior away from his carefree life of fraternity parties and sorority formals to being surrounded by the German army in the Siege of Bastogne. That one call caused Crabtree to spend a year of his life in the war and the rest of his life coming home.

We Will Not Be Home By Christmas

This philanthropic book is an impressive collection of actual letters, postcards, and stories from Soldiers and Marines who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. This beautiful large format coffee table-style hardcover book is an excellent gift for everyone. All profits are donated to the national nonprofit Wreaths Across America.

“I am pleased to bring this book to you and hope in reading it, you may find a deeper appreciation of the holidays and for the sacrifices endured by so many. In recognition of those sacrifices and commemoration of their memory, 100% of profits from "We Will Not Be Home By Christmas" will be donated to the national nonprofit “Wreaths Across America” for its mission to remember, honor, and teach. This mission is carried out, in part, by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in over 2,500 participating locations both home and abroad. In the words of President Lincoln, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”

 

Lieutenant Colonel Dale Beasley (Retired) US Army

What I Learned
At The Zoo

Coming of age during the turbulent 1970’s, Dale Beasley for one short time thought he hailed from Texas. His father, the late Brigadier General Glenn D. Beasley, Sr., United States Army, knew and determined that his son would also know, instead, that the youngster’s roots ran deep from the soil of the Mississippi Delta. What I Learned At The ‘Zoo reveals the younger Beasley’s  fictionalized account of his 14th summer in Yazoo City — a summer that features an eccentric family, a plot to smuggle Cold War secrets from Mississippi to spies in East Germany, and the forging of a lasting bond between the boy and his Great Uncle Dallas Crabtree.