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Finally, my eternal thanks and love go out to my family for their patience, love, encouragement, and unwavering support, especially Janet Schutt, Billy Schutt, Chuck and Eileen Schutt, Bobby and Dee Schutt, my grandparents (Angelo and Millie DiDonato), all my Aunt Roses, and of course, my late parents, Bill and Marie Schutt.





Selected Bibliography


Altenbach, J. S. “Locomotor morphology of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus.” American Society of Mammologists Special Publication 6 (1979): 1–137.

Asimov, Isaac. In Memory Yet Green. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Brown, David E. Vampiro: The Vampire Bat in Fact and Fantasy. Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1994.

Duffy, James P. Target America: Hitler’s Plan to Attack the United States. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2012.

Emmons, Louise, and Fran?ois Feer. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Fleming, Peter. Brazilian Adventure. Evanston, IL: Northwestern/Marlboro Press, 1999.

Garlinski, Jozef. Hitler’s Last Weapons. New York: Times Books, 1978.

Georg, Friedrich. Hitler’s Miracle Weapons. Solihull, England: Helion, 2005.

Greenhall, Arthur M., and Uwe Schmidt, eds. Natural History of Vampire Bats. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1988.

Griehl, Manfred. Luftwaffe Over America. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004.

Harris, Sheldon H. Factories of Death. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Heckenberger, M., et al. “Amazonia 1492: Pristine forest or cultural parkland.” Science, September 22, 2003.

Herwig, Dieter, and Heinz Rode. Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers, 1935–1945. Leicester, England: Midland, 2000.

Hogg, Ian V. German Secret Weapons of the Second World War. New York: Fall River Press, 1999.

Hyland, Gary, and Anton Gill. Last Talons of the Eagle. London: Headline Books, 1998.

Middlebrook, Martin. The Peenemünde Raid. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982.

Morgan, G. S., O. J. Linares, and C. E. Ray. “New species of fossil vampire bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Desmodontidae) from Florida and Venezuela.” Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 (1988): 912–28.

Myhra, David. S?nger: Germany’s Orbital Rocket-Bomber in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History Books, 2002.

Nash, Douglas E. Hell’s Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket. Southbury, CT: RZM Imports, 2001.

Neufield, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1995.

Piszkiewicz, Dennis. From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler’s Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch. London: Praeger, 1997.

Rhodes, Anthony. Propaganda—The Art of Persuasion: World War II. New York: Chelsea House, 1993.

Schutt, Bill. Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures. New York: Crown, 2008.

Schutt, W. A., Jr. “Chiropteran hindlimb morphology and the origin of blood-feeding in bats.” In T. H. Kunz and P. A. Racy, eds., Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1998.

. “Functional morphology of the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus,” Journal of Experimental Biology 200, no. 23 (1998): 3003–3012.

Smith, Anthony. Mato Grosso. New York: Dutton, 1971.

Wilkinson, G. “Reciprocal food sharing in vampire bats.” Nature 308 (1984): 181.

Ziemke, Earl F. The Soviet Juggernaut. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1980.





About the Authors


J. R. FINCH is the pen name of a painter, history buff, and cave explorer. He lives in New York with three cats.

BILL SCHUTT is a vertebrate zoologist and author. He is a research associate in residence at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor of biology at LIU Post. Bill’s first book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, was critically acclaimed by E.O. Wilson, the New York Times, and Alice Cooper. His next nonfiction work will explore the natural history of cannibalism. Bill lives with his wife and son on the East End of Long Island, and he is currently working on a sequel to Hell’s Gate with J. R. Finch.

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