Lester Taube started his military career with the horse artillery at the age of fifteen. He was a platoon leader during World War II, fighting in Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He left the army to run a series of successful business ventures, then returned to military service as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, and as a general staff officer in intelligence and war plans during the Vietnam war. Prior to his retirement as a full Colonel, he lived in a small village in Austria before moving back to the United States, where he now resides in New Jersey. He is the author of four highly-acclaimed books published throughout the world including Myer for Hire, The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov and The Grabbers (The Diamond Boomerang).
Lester Taube was born of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey. He began soldiering while in his teens, first in the horse artillery, then as an infantryman for the remainder of his career. In World War II, he was a platoon leader in the Bismark Archipelago, attached to the Marines on Iwo Jima, then on Okinawa, the last battle of the war. Recuperating from wounds and malaria, he left the army to run a 400 employee electronic company in California, a 450 employee paper stock company in Pennsylvania and then moved to Canada to open a logging and pulp-wood cutting operation. Returning to military service, he served as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, then left to become an insurance consultant.
During the Vietnam period, he was stationed in Europe as a general staff officer working in intelligence and war plans. While there, he opened a chain of coin-operated laundries in France that would become the largest in Europe. Prior to retirement as a full colonel, he moved to a small village in Austria and kept a boat for several years in the Cote d’Azur,
Returning to the U.S. after 13 years overseas, he worked as an economic development specialist for the State of New Jersey until his final retirement. He has four children all born in different countries.
Since retirement, he has spent winters in Florida, summers in New Jersey, fished, boated and traveled to Europe each year, especially to Spain to keep up with his great interest in bull fighting.
He began writing action novels while in France, and after producing four books which were published in a number of different countries, and selling two for motion pictures, he stopped – “as there were children to raise and soldiering to do.”
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Acclaimed author, Lester Taube’s five books include his latest, Atonement for Iwo. The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov, The Grabbers (the Diamond Boomerang) and Myer for Hire are published in several languages and two were sold for films.
