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Ray Deptula is a native of Wells, Maine, and a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. He spent 24 years in the U.S. Navy as a helicopter pilot and a political-military officer. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island with a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. A Dog Before a Soldier is the first book Ray has published, having conceived of it while taking a Revolutionary War elective at the Naval War College.
A Dog Before a Soldier
In A Dog Before a Soldier, the battlefield is only half the story. As gunpowder fills the air and empires clash, Jack Halliday wages his own internal war—against power, identity, and the meaning of freedom. Through him, the chaos of revolution becomes personal, revealing the high cost of both obedience and rebellion in a world desperate to redefine itself.
One Man’s War, A Nation’s Reckoning
After 24 years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator and Political-Military Officer serving in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean, Ray Deptula has witnessed firsthand how political dysfunction and certain aspects of human nature repeat themselves across eras. His debut historical novel, A Dog Before a Soldier, brings that insight to life through the story of a young man forced into the military and ensuing war out of desperation during the American Revolution.
