Bibliography of works by James Warner Bellah

James Warner Bellah (14 September 1899 – 22 September 1976) was born in New York City. He fought in WWI in the Canadian army, and served as a pilot for 117 Squadron, RFC. In WWII, he served in the 16th Infantry as an LT with the General Staff Corps before Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to HQ, 1st Div, then 80th Div, and eventually serving on the staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. He served with General Wingate’s Chindits in Burma, General Stillwell, and Colonel Cochran’s 1st Air Commando Group. He retired at the rank of Colonel.

He was also a well known and popular author. Many of his stories were made into movies, and he novelized several of the original scripts he worked on.

A timeline of his Fort Starke stories exists

Title	Format	First Publication	1st Novel Publication	Movie	Notes
The Admiral’s Best Pants	short story	Redbook Mar 1932
The Affair in Cabin Twelve	short story	Argosy Dec 10 1932
The Aftermath	short story	Saturday Evening Post Oct 27 1928
Alaska	article	Holiday. Vol. 26, no. 2 (Aug. 1959).
	novel		The Apache New York : Gold Medal Books,1951
The Apache curse	serial	Saturday Evening Post 2/17/1951, Vol. 223 Issue 34, p17-111 2/24/1951, Vol. 223 Issue 35, p38-58 3/3/1951, Vol. 223 Issue 36, p38-86
At the pilot’s discretion	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 12/12/1931, Vol. 204 Issue 24, p16-93
At 2:42 a.m.	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 199:16 D 18 ’26 Argosy (UK) Apr 1927
Believe it or not	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 3/7/1931, Vol. 203 Issue 36, p12-74
Big hunt	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 12/6/1947, Vol. 220 Issue 23, p22-205	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. Screenplay/Short Story Author	West, Cavalry
Blood	short story	Saturday Evening Post Apr 2 1927
			Blood river (see Ordeal at Blood River)
Bombing cities won’t win the war.	article	Harpers Magazine Nov. 1939, v. 179, p. 658-663.
The bones of Napoleon	novel	Cosmopolitan Mar 1940	The bones of Napoleon. New York : Appleton-Century, 1940
Bonfires and Elms, 1919	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Boppo and the awful whiffs.	short story	Collier’s 79:17 March 12 1927 p. 17-18
Boppo refuses.	short story	Collier’s 79:15 Je II ’27
Boppo takes a bird’s eye view.	short story	Collier’s 79:10 May 7 1927  p. 10-11
Boppo’s bicycle.	short story	Collier’s 79:n F 5 ’27	Overton, G. ed. World’s one hundred best short stories v 8:152
The Brass Gong Tree	serial	Colliers May 25, 1935 p. 7-9. Jun 1, 1935 Jun 8, 1935	The brass gong tree . New York : D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936		Espionage — Japan — Fiction.
Brothers in the Bond	short story	Saturday Evening Post April 13 1929, v.201 p.16-17
By the Beard of St. Crispin	short story	Saturday Evening Post, August 3 1946, v.219 Issue 5, p12-81	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
The Captain’s Cordon Rouge	short story	Saturday Evening Post Nov 12 1927
Chorus Girl	short story	Saturday Evening Post Oct 26 1929
The Cities of the World	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jun 16 1928
Command	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/8/1946, Vol. 218 Issue 49, p12-78	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. Screenplay/Short Story Author	West, Cavalry
	Book?			The Command, 1954
Le Coup du Sot	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jul 21 1928
The Courtship of Sergeant Postle.	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 4/20/1957, Vol. 229 Issue 42, p40-114			WWI. Military
The Crime of Professor Bonar	short story	, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 19 1928
D’Orroc Earns a Breakfast	short story	Argosy Aug 20 1932
Dancing lady	novel	Saturday Evening Post 4/30/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 44, p3-67 5/7/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 45, p18-70 5/14/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 46, p18-81 5/21/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 47, p24-44 5/28/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 48, p26-84 6/4/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 49, p24-56	Dancing Lady.  New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932; New York : A. L. Burt,1932	Dancing Lady.  Screenplay, 1933
The Day	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Day of Terror	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 11/17/1956, Vol. 229 Issue 20, p40-129
Delaware	article	Holiday, 3/1955. vol. 17 no. 3.	Holiday. American panorama; East of the Mississippi.  Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1961.		West, Cavalry
The Devil at Crazy Man	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jun 21 1947	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
			Divorce, Popular Library, 1952.
Fear	short story	Saturday Evening Post Nov 6 1926	Mason, F. van Wyck. The fighting American, a war-chest of stories of American soldiers, from the French and Indian wars through the first world war.  New York, Reynal & Hitchcock. 1943.Dunton, J. G. ed. C’est la guerre!
			Fighting men, U.S.A. Evanston [Ill.] Regency Books, 1963
First Blood at Harper’s Ferry.	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 5/9/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 45, p34-170		filmed as The Americans: Harper’s Ferry (#1.1) (1961)	Civil War
1st Manassas (Bull Run) and the War Around It	book		1st Manassas Bull Run and the War Around it.  First Manassas Corp. 1961 (with Bruce Catton, etc).		Civil War
Flotsam	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Flying with both feet on the ground	short story	Saturday Evening Post. Vol. 215, no. 2 (May 18, 1929) p. 37, 39, 88
Funny nose	short story	Saturday Evening Post Feb 5 1927
Garden of Epicurus, 1921.	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
The General’s Trump	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 9/21/1957, Vol. 230 Issue 12, p37-78
A Gentleman of blades.	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jun 11 1927
The Girl with the Honest Eyes	serial	New York Herald Tribune Magazine Nov 14 1937
Glider troops ambush Japs	Article	Science Digest, August 1944, v.16, p.43-47
The Gods of Yesterday	short story	Saturday Evening Post Apr 30 1927	Gods of yesterday  New York : D. Appleton, 1928		WWI
Good Ole Brother Wirkus	short story	Saturday Evening Post Oct 19 1929
Great tradition	short story	Saturday Evening Post May 28 1927
The Heart of Guinevere, London 1935	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 12/14/1935, Vol. 208 Issue 24, p10-33
Here we are, where are we?	short story	Collier’s 79:10 My 21 ’27
				High Noon. Unsold pilot, 1966
How Stonewall came back (Tales of the valorous Virginians)	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/6/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 49, p34-103	The valiant Virginians.  New York, Ballantine Books  1953	filmed as The Americans (1961 – TV series)	Civil War
Hunch	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 3/26/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 39, p8-104
			The Indian army.  Washington, D.C., Government of India Information Services, 1940  Reprinted from the Infantry journal.
Indian sign	short story	Colliers, Nov. 12, 1954, pp. 28-29, 92-101; Nov. 26 1954., pp. 58-67.			West, Cavalry
			Irregular gentleman: the Record of a Casual Life. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1948		Authors — Biography.
Jonah	short story	Saturday Evening Post Nov 10 1928
Jonathan Brasenose	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 8/23/1941, Vol. 214 Issue 8, p16-59
	novel		The journal of Colonel De Lancey.  Philadelphia, Chilton Books, 1967
The king is dead — San Francisco, 1933	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 10/28/1933, Vol. 206 Issue 18, p16-34
			Land actions of the War of 1912-14 (A Reconsideration).  Unpublished?
Lash of fear	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 11/8/1947, Vol. 220 Issue 19, p20-152	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
The last fight	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 10/16/1948, Vol. 221 Issue 16, p26-156	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
Last of the line.	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Last Post	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/14/1941, Vol. 213 Issue 50, p14-67
	???			The Legend of Nigger Charley / Story
Linking the Americas	article	Saturday Evening Post Apr 20 1929, v. 201 p.6-7
Lord Peveril’s Great Toe – New York, 1774	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 1/12/1935, Vol. 207 Issue 25, p18-116
The Love Interest	short story	Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931
Luncheon at the Plaza	short story	McCall’s Apr 1963, v.90, p.86-87
The MacGillicuddie	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jan 15 1927			WWI
M’Givney’s mustache.	short story	Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 1927
Male bolge, 1920	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
				The Man Behind the Gun , 1952 (Actor)
The Man in seat 12	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 9/26/1931, Vol. 204 Issue 13, p12-101
The Man Who Beat Lupo	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jul 7 1928
			The man who shot Liberty Valance : a novelization. New York : Pocket Books,1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance, 1962. Screenplay (With Willis Goldbeck)	West
Maryland	article	Holiday – September, 1954	Holiday. American panorama; East of the Mississippi.  Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1961.
Massacre	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 2/22/1947, Vol. 219 Issue 34, p18-146	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950	Fort Apache, 1948. Screenplay/Short Story Author	West, Cavalry
The Medico	short story	Saturday Evening Post Sep 17 1927
Miss Wingrove and the Road to Glory	short story	McCall’s Nov 1960, v.88, p.64-65
Mission with no record	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 9/27/1947, Vol. 220 Issue 13, p30-144 – Reprinted  (“May/June ’92”)	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950	Rio Grande, 1950. Screenplay/ Short Story Author	West, Cavalry
Mr. Dwyer’s Mistake	short story	Saturday Evening Post Apr 19 1930, v.202,p.18-19
Mr. Fentriss Sails at Six	short story	Saturday Evening Post Feb 15 1930, v.202, p.10-11
Mr. Picarelli Takes a Bath	novel?	Saturday Evening Post May 17 1930, v.202, p.14-15
Mrs. Seton Buys a Necklace	short story	Saturday Evening Post Sep 14 1929, v.202, p.10-11
Murder at three thousand	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 7/30/1932, Vol. 205 Issue 5, p10-60
Neophyte.	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Nice Girl	short story	Saturday Evening Post Sep 21 1929
A Night with D’Orroc	short story	Argosy Feb 13 1932
North of Nowhere	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jun 9 1928
	foreword		Not by bread alone : conversations with Arthur K. Jordan by John D. McCallum ; foreword by James Warner Bellah.Tacoma, Wash. : Mercury Press, 1972
The odyssey of Percival Fiske	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
Old Slithercheeks takes a bath.	short story	Collier’s 79:20 F 26 ’27
Old Waffle Ear.	short story	Collier’s 80:7 Jl 2 ’27
Ordeal on Blood River	novel	Saturday Evening Post 10/31/1959, Vol. 232 Issue 18, p43-90 11/7/1959, Vol. 232 Issue 19, p43-95 11/14/1959, Vol. 232 Issue 20, p49-63 10/24/1959, Vol. 232 Issue 17, p34-78 10/17/1959, Vol. 232 Issue 16, p32-166	Ordeal at Blood River.  New York : Ballantine Books, 1959	aka Blood River	West, Cavalry
Organization Wife	short story	Saturday Evening Post (9/24/1960), Vol. 233 Issue 13, p22-57
Panama-3000 Miles Away	short story	Saturday Evening Post Sep 15 1928
Passport to Hell	serial	Liberty Jan 26, Mar 2, Mar 9 1935
Password was Mandalay	article	Readers Digest. September 1944, v.45, p.33-36
Pirate Off Nantucket	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/27/1942, Vol. 214 Issue 52, p24-57
	foreword		Port Angeles, U.S.A.  Seattle, Wash. : Wood and Reber, 1961 by John McCallum and Lorraine Wilcox Ross ; Foreword by James Warner Bellah.		Port Angeles (Wash.) — History.
			Rear Guard, Popular Library (New York, NY), 1950.	Filmed as The Command (1954)
			Reveille.  Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett,1962
	screenplay			Ride the Bugle. unsold pilot, 1956
The Romance of Timothy Mears–Singapore: 1927.	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 8/5/1933, Vol. 206 Issue 6, p8-67
Scapa flow.	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
	screenplay			The Sea Chase, 1955. Screenplay (With John Twist)
	novelization		Sergeant Rutledge. New York, Bantam Books  1960	Sergeant Rutledge, 1960. Screenplay (With Willis Goldbeck)	west cavalry
The Secret of the seven days (Tales of the valorous Virginians)	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/13/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 50, p34-164	The valiant Virginians.  New York, Ballantine Books  1953	filmed as The Americans (1961 – TV series)	Civil War
7 must die	novel	Saturday Evening Post 9/18/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 12, p5-52 9/25/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 13, p18-86 10/2/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 14, p20-52 10/9/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 15, p22-93 10/16/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 16, p24-46 10/23/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 17, p26-66 10/30/1937, Vol. 210 Issue 18, p35-155	7 must die.  New York : D. Appleton-Century Co.,1938
The Shark	short story	Saturday Evening Post Nov 3 1928 c.201 p.20-21
She eagle	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/13/1931, Vol. 203 Issue 50, p8-103
Silly major	short story	Collier’s 79:7 Ap 9 ’27
Slaughter at Ball’s Bluff	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 5/23/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 47, p26-170			Civil War
			Soldiers’ battle: Gettysburg. New York, D. McKay Co. 1962
Soldier’s Boy	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 11/23/1957, Vol. 230 Issue 21, p32-126
Some dropped by the wayside.	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
			The sons of Cain. New York London, D. Appleton & Co., 1928		WWI
			South by East and a Half East, privately published, 1936.
Spanish man’s grave	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 5/3/1947, Vol. 219 Issue 44, p30-67	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
Stage from Elkhorn	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 11/20/1948, Vol. 221 Issue 21, p20-188	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
Stuart’s charge at Bull Run (Tales of the valorous Virginians)	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 5/16/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 46, p34-160	The valiant Virginians.  New York, Ballantine Books  1953	filmed as The Americans (1961 – TV series)	Civil War
The swashbuckler	short story		Sketch book of a cadet from Gascony. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923		WWI
			Sykes’ regulars : Twentieth infantry regiment organization day, 21 September, 1955.[Los Angeles : Myra G. Shannon,1955
				Target Zero, 1956. Screenplay/Short Story Author (With Sam Rolfe)
				Ten Tall Men, 1952. Screenplay/Short Story Author (With others)
And there was the moon	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 8/29/1931, Vol. 204 Issue 9, p6-64
	novel		These frantic years New York : D. Appleton & Co.,1927
Thirty nine days to glory	short story	Holiday, Sep 1959. p125-228			West Custer
				This Is Korea. Screenplay
	novel	Ladies Home Journal, May 1937 v.54 p.11-13	This is the town. New York : Appleton-Century, 1937		NY society
The Tuber	short story	Saturday Evening Post Nov 24 1928
Unholy Woman	short story	Esquire Feb 1950
Upwood Bobie, Adventurer	short story	Saturday Evening Post Dec 22 1928
The War Heroes	short story	Saturday Evening Post Jan 5 1929
War party	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 6/19/1948, Vol. 220 Issue 51, p22-110	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950 A thunder of drums. New York : Bantam,1961 (novelization)	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949. Screenplay/Short Story Author  A thunder of drums.  Screenplay, 1961	West, Cavalry
	novel		Ward twenty : a realistic novel. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1946		WWII
West of the paradise	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 9/7/1946, Vol. 219 Issue 10, p28-91	Massacre. New York City : Lion Books, Inc., 1950		West, Cavalry
What Am I — Fish?	short story	Saturday Evening Post Mar 9 1929
What it takes	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 10/17/1931, Vol. 204 Issue 16, p22-138
While the General Slept	short story	The American Magazine Mar 1939, v.127, p22-25.
The White Invader	short story	Saturday Evening Post 1/21/1950, Vol. 222 Issue 30, p17-80 1/28/1950, Vol. 222 Issue 31, p34-102 2/4/1950, Vol. 222 Issue 32, p36-82			West
White Pants	short story	Saturday Evening Post Aug 23 1930
White piracy	novel	Redbook Oct 1933	White piracy. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.1933
Who–the lady?	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 1/2/1932, Vol. 204 Issue 27, p12-50
Why Stonewall Jackson got licked at Kernstown (Tales of the valorous Virginians)	short story	Saturday Evening Post, 5/30/1953, Vol. 225 Issue 48, p22-100	The valiant Virginians.  New York, Ballantine Books  1953	filmed as The Americans (1961 – TV series)	Civil War
Woman of Honor	serial	Colliers Jun 2, 1934, p.7-9 Jun 23, 1934 Jul 7 1934
				X-15, 1961. Screenplay (With Tony Lazzarino)
You Marry Once!	short story	Cosmopolitan Apr 1939

Notes:Thanks to Timothy R. Grimm, for his help with “Indian Sign”, which I had missed completely.

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