Welcome to OfIceAndSteel.Com, the Cyberspace Home of author D. Clayton Meadows "An extremely engaging tale that grabs your attention and doesn't let go, OF ICE AND STEEL poses a thought-provoking cataclysmic undersea contest across a vivid fabric of space and time! Don Meadows combines an impressive natural storytelling gift with a veteran submariner's powerful grasp of modern and U-boat traditions and tactics!" --Joe Buff, author of SEAS OF CRISIS and STRAITS OF POWER OF ICE AND STEEL In the waste of the Arctic ice, a deadly relic lies, frozen and forgotten. When a new Russian revolution brings man kind to the very brink of oblivion, the sleeping relic is loosed on an already frightened world. Ships begin to disappear. The super powers accuse one another, as all nations, draw their battle lines. A nuclear devise is stolen, to be delivered to the most wanted and murderous terrorist in history. It is a time when only a spark is required to ignite a nuclear exchange. One man has the answer. Three men and three submarines must overcome mistrust, and their own demons to explain the unexplainable and deliver the world from a global holocaust.

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Fictional Undersea Nuclear Confrontation Places World at Peril

Oceanside CA – June 28, 2006 – Author D. Clayton Meadows an eight-teen year veteran of our Submarine Service stood on a nuclear submarine’s sail, thrust up through the ice at the North Pole. He says, “I looked at the scene, and sensed the hold of the ice. A chill came over me as I realized the importance of what we did,” “I wanted to explain it to others.” The idea crawled at his skin, until he crafted the resulting book, “Of Ice and Steel”, mostly under sea. This is a tight, gritty story, submitted with the realities of modern tactics and U-boat traditions only a professional submariner can present.

Meadows novel “Of Ice and Steel” gives a nerve-wracking scenario of how men and machines would react to a mysterious threat the major undersea powers fear, and cannot understand. He used an intriguing science fiction idea and placed a WWII German U-Boat with an exotic cargo into suspended animation in the Arctic ice. Waking from the suspension, sixty years later, the ship’s captain drives his crew to complete the mission they started completely unaware of changes in the world. They are a deadly threat to ships of formally “hostile” nations. The result is a frighteningly realistic yarn of how skilled submarine warriors of different times and nations figure out what happened, and deal with it without destroying the world. Instructive, convincing, exciting and a fantastic spellbinding read.

Don Meadows, a fiercely devoted military man, retired from the Navy, and joined a National Guard tank unit. Badly injured when a rotating gun turret threw him to the ground, he completed “Of Ice and Steel” while he recovered. He also gained fame as a creator of accurate scale models of major military hardware, and kept his hand in writing by contributing frequent articles to military magazines. He submitted “Of Ice and Steel” to Leatherneck Publishing, because he was drawn by the company’s mission “. to provide a venue to every military person, Marine, Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard with a story to tell.” Meadows tells a great story.

Leatherneck Publishing published “Of Ice and Steel” in Oceanside, CA. The book is available directly from http://www.leatherneckpublishing.com, or your local bookstore. Dealer discounts offered through Ingram Books and Baker &Taylor.

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Of Ice and Steel D. Clayton Meadows It is autumn 1944. A German submarine makes a daring and dangerous passage into the Arctic ice. Within the U-boat’s steel hull lies, an experiment that if successful will guarantee survival of the Third Reich. Unknown to those onboard events are occurring on the opposite side of the world that will leave them trapped and dying in a frozen hell. In a desperate attempt to save his crew the Captain utilizes the secret cargo that puts his crew in suspended animation. Decades later they awaken to a strange new world. Their only wish is to get home. A new Russian revolution has occurred. The world is on edge, as civil war breaks out in the former Soviet Union. Then during the fighting an American plane is blasted from the sky by Russian missiles. As nations draw their battle lines the world economy withers. A spark is all that will be needed to ignite a total nuclear war. It is now that the U-boat makes her run for home. Confronted by warships, and having no idea the war ended more than a half century ago, the U-boat defends herself. Then other ships begin to disappear. Russia and the United States blame each other as one more step toward war is taken. One man though finds the answer. At the last moment his fantastic story is believed and the two sides agree to each send a submarine to find the U-boat and force her to surrender or send her to the bottom. Can three men from different times, cultures and backgrounds overcome, fear hate and their own demons to save the world? A perfect blend of fiction and nonfiction, told by an experienced submariner. It just doesn't get any better than this! --Kenneth Sewell Author, Red Star Rogue

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