Barbara Allen - Front Toward Enemy: A Slain Soldier’s Widow Details Her Husband’s Murder and How Military Courts Allowed the Killer to Escape Justice

This true story is one of our military justice system turned upside down. That it occurred threatens the reputation of all our services.

As you read this well written first person story you cant help but become outraged; It is hard to put down. It begs the question of accountability at the highest levels. The book should be required reading to assure nothing like this is allowed to happen again. The families of Lt. Allen and Capt. Esposito deserve nothing less, as do our country and the finest service men and women in the world.

RADM H. Denny Wisely USN Ret

Admiral Wisely background: Flew 350 missions in F4 Phantom in Vietnam; first to shoot down 2 airplanes. He was shot down and rescued over N. Vietnam; Commanded Fighter Squadron from Carrier based in Japan; Lead Blue Angels: Ran Legislative Affairs Office in Washington: Commanded USS Sylvania (Supply Ship) and John F. Kennedy (aircraft carrier). Hosted BushGorbachev Summit aboard 6th Fleet Flagship in Malta. After Navy, retired as VP Business Development from General Dynamics.

Front Toward Enemy, resonates because it goes beyond an exploration of our military and judicial system; its also about motherhood, love, loss, and the American spirit which drives us to seek triumph against all odds. There is a humanity to the authors lens that makes the narrative so compelling.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Guilfoyle served as an Assistant District Attorney at the San Francisco District Attorneys Office from 2000 to 2004. She is currently a regular contributor on Geraldo at Large, a weekend show that airs on the Fox News Channel, as well as host of an internetonly crimerelated program for Fox News.

Barbara Allen has written a heart rendering documentary of her three and a half years of her frustrating struggle for bringing justice to the criminal, premeditated explosion resulting in the death of her husband, First Lieutenant Louis Allen, and his friend, Captain Phillip Esposito. Regrettably, prolonged military justice resulted in butchered justice, emphasizing the clarion need for the reform of military justice in cases of this nature.

Benjamin A. Gilman, CEO The Gilman Group
Former Congressman and Former Chairman of the
House International Relations Committee

A SLAIN SOLDIERS WIDOW DETAILS
HER HUSBANDS MURDER AND
HOW MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED
THE KILLER TO ESCAPE JUSTICE

BARBARA ALLEN

A SLAIN SOLDIERS WIDOW DETAILS HER HUSBANDS MURDER
AND HOW MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED THE KILLER TO ESCAPE JUSTICE

by BARBARA ALLEN
2010 Barbara Allen. All rights reserved.

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ISBN 978-1-60037-829-4 (paperback)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931844

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To Lou, for crossing your heart and never letting go. It was my honor and blessing to be your wife, and I am a better person because of you.

To Phillip Esposito, for taking Lou under your wing and helping him become that soldier he wanted to be. He was proud to know you and call you his friend, as I am proud to have come to know you through the ones you left behind. Your deaths were senseless, but your lives were extraordinary.

I would not have come through these years as I have without the enormous support of countless people. The steadfast presence of family and friends has been invaluable. To my parents and family, thank you for putting up with me and always being ready to help. To Lous family, thank you for welcoming me as you did, and working through the pain to reestablish a place in my life.

To Siobhan Esposito, thank you for the times you pulled me through and lead the way. To Steven Raiser, thank you for peeling me off the floor and never refusing my call. Meg Foreman, thank you for trailblazing the communication between us and the government, and for sticking with us long after the government tucked tail. To John Benson, thank you for fighting the way you did.