Sign-In
Cart
From Conception to Retirement
Paperback
Biographies GeneralTravel WritingArmed Forces
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798896397601
Publisher: Kravitz and Sons LLC
Published: Jun 12 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Kravitz and Sons LLC
Published: Jun 12 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The emotional heart of Max DeBoard's adventures lie with the love of his life, and the people he has come across. The magic of conception filled with thrilling descriptions of the world's most spectacular places in his glamorous technicolored world. Max says, I must confess I never thought I would end up putting my adventures into print, but many people said that the world needs to hear my story.
Max's adventures will make you laugh, and make you cry, and they will make you laugh so hard that you will cry. Max talks about in his book, from attending a two room country school to being inducted into Del Mar College Hall of Fame. Max enlisted in the US Navy at the age of nineteen, became a shellback aboard the USS America. When Max was discharged, he went to work in the South Texas oil fields, where he met Richard Glover, the fiddle player on All Dean's Cotton Eyed Joe. Max later worked in the oil field in Libya, North Africa. Max worked for United Nuclear Corporation before returning.Max DeBoard was born and raised near Blackwell, a wheat farming community in North Central Oklahoma. There are many things that Max would like to put behind him, like the death of his best friend, his raising by his stepmother, the tragic death, as a very young age, of his three siblings, but most of all Max would like to forget the morning of his mother's death. Max was only six when his mother passed away with Cancer.DeBoard has his own secrets, some dark, and some inspiring. DeBoard realizes that before he can move on with his life, he must grow up, and the US Navy did just that for him. DeBoard sailed the seven seas, and visited six of the seven Continents, He always wanted to visit the Arctic. DeBoard has faced countless challenges, once being faced with a gun put to his throat, it was either die or remove the threat.DeBoard was inducted into Del Mar College Hall of Fame, and earned a BA in History at Texas A&M University Kingsville. DeBoard became game filmer, and was selected two years for Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges.
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Toby Byron (ED.)
Pete Welding (ED.)
Hardcover
$11.99
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
$236.28
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
$30.40
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
From $12.99
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
$12.99
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
From $12.99
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
From $12.99
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
$17.05
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
$20.89
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Kinney, David
Wittman, Robert K.
Paperback
From $10.99
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
$88.50
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII
Warnicke, Retha M.
Paperback
$29.45
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Hardcover
$10.99
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
$9.99
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Cordingly, David
Paperback
$17.10
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
$17.05
Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
Lame Deer, Chief Archie Fire
Erdoes, Richard
Paperback
From $8.99
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
$9.99
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
From $14.99
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
$26.10
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Kuehn, Christine
Hardcover
$28.49
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
$29.69
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
$19.80
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover
$28.80
Through Mom's Eyes: Simple Wisdom from Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans
Jones, Sheinelle
Hardcover
$26.10