Douglas Terman was an American writer

American literature

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 of military novels.

Biography

He helped develop Petit Saint Vincent

Petit Saint Vincent

Petit St. Vincent, known locally as PSV, is an island 40 statute miles south of St. Vincent in the Grenadine islands. It consists of softly rolling hills spread over 113 acres surrounded mostly by two miles of white sand beaches.The island is privately owned. In 1963 Haze Richardson and Doug...

 as an exclusive resort in the Grenadines

Grenadines

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 with his best friend Hazen Richardson, travelling through the Caribbean on his boats Encantada and Jacinta. *PSV

He spent over twenty years in Warren, VT where he met and befriended many fellow authors, including Ray Montgomery, Edward Packard, Richard Bach, and Ward Just, to name a few.

Terman was the author of one of the early Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure

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 books, By Balloon to the Sahara. The book is dedicated to his only child, Christine M. Terman. Terman is also notable for his other military-themed fiction. He wrote from his own experiences, and included many of his friends and loved ones as characters in his books, such as "Walrus".

Terman had military experience during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

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Books by Douglas Terman

• The 3 Megaton Gamble (1978)
• By Balloon to the Sahara (1979) (reissued as Danger in the Desert).
• First Strike (1979)
• Free Flight (1980)
• Shell Game (1985)
• The Dragon Dances With The Tears Of 1am (1987)
• Enemy Territory (1989)
• Star Shot (1990)
• Cormorant (1994)