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  • ...and a hard rain fell

    A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam

    by John Ketwig ...
    A classic, must-read Vietnam war memoirThe classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its 20th anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its parallels to Vietnam, John Ketwig's message is as relevant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 10 Cents and a Silver Star . . . A Sardonic Saga of PTSD

    A Sardonic Saga of PTSD

    10¢ anda Silver Star...A Sardonic Saga of PTSDJust as WWII gave us Catch 22 and Korea produced M*A*S*H, Vietnam delivers 10 cents and a Silver Star. No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson’s sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth – if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.An unworldly young man volunteers to be drafted early. He ventures into the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 120 Days n Misery!

    This book is my recollections of my years spent in the US Army from 1967 to 1973. I cover my Army basic training as well as my Advanced Individual Training and 5 1/2 years of Ohio National Guard. I hope future generations find this book a good read as well as beneficial to any family research they may be doing. Thank You for choosing my book. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1914

    Voices from the Battlefields

    The opening battles of WWI’s Western Front and the world-changing advances in warfare are reexamined through eyewitness accounts from the trenches.The 1914 campaign of World War I, sparked by the German Army’s invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, marked a watershed in military history. Advances in weaponry forced both sides to take to the earth in what became a grueling standoff of trench ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1939-1945 As I Remember

    The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at War

    Leslie Wheeler was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1909, and in 1927 he enlisted in his local Territorial Army regiment, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. Leslie served throughout the Second World War in the Middle East, North Africa, and Italy as a senior non-commissioned officer and was then commissioned as quartermaster into the regiment that he clearly loved. His honest and revealing memoirs depict ... Read more

    $9.19 USD

  • 20/20: The Iraq and Afghanistan Narratives

    20/20 - The Iraq and Afghanistan Narratives is a retrospective of America’s most recent wars told through twenty oral histories from a cross section of veterans who served on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom and/or Operation Enduring Freedom. All profits from the book will go to veteran's organizations. These tales come “from the horse’s mouth” and explain the many physical and emotional ... Read more

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  • 22 Minutes

    The USS Vincennes and the Tragedy of Savo Island: A Lifetime Survival Story

    by Jeff Spevak ...
    Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.But he paid a price and buried the horrific memories for decades.In the manner of Mitch Albom’s highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie, 22 Minutes is a searing account of a survivor coming to terms with an incident he had suppressed for sixty years and the writer who painstakingly put together the clues about what had happened ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 82 Days on Okinawa

    One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle

    "A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you." —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable soldier’s-eye view of the Pacific War’s bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa.On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chance in a Million

    A delightful, heartfelt love story to escape with

    by T.A. Williams ...
    Series Book 3 - Love from Italy
    Fate brought them together, now it’s up to them to make it work…Having left the army to recover from a traumatic experience, Captain Jane Reed is on her way to Venice to assist Lady Veronica Cooper, a world-famous writer who has lost her mojo. Plagued by grief and sleepless nights, Jane soon finds a kindred spirit in Veronica, coping with her own loss after the death of her husband.When the two ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Different Drummer

    My Life as a Peacetime Soldier

    In this engaging memoir, Gerard Teachman, PhD, shares his coming-of-age experience as a young soldier in the U.S. Army from 1957 until his honorable discharge in 1960.With each spirited vignette, Gerry invites you to experience the humor, the humiliation, and the life lessons that laid the foundation for his future as an educator and humanitarian.A Different Drummer: My Life as a Peacetime Soldier ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Doctor at War

    The story of Colonel Martin Herford - the most decorated doctor of World War II

    by Matthew Hall ...
    Matthew Hall brings to life the fascinating story of Colonel Martin Herford, the most decorated doctor of World War II, covering his service in the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II.Even though the doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers of the military are every bit as courageous as the front line soldiers, they are very seldom written about. The image of a team of medics tucked away ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Dog Called Hope

    A Wounded Warrior and the Service Dog Who Saved Him

    An “inspiring and very moving” memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life (Bear Grylls, host of Running Wild).A decade ago, special forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an antinarcotics raid. He’d served with the famous Night Stalkers on countless such missions. This one was different. Months later, he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Dog With A Destiny: Smoky

    by Isabel George ...
    An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Smoky, a baseball-size mass of brown fur, was found in a foxhole in the depths of the New Guinea jungle in the middle of the Second World War. The soldier who found her took the Yorkshire Terrier pup back to base and sold her to Bill, the US serviceman who would adopt her, for three Australian dollars.It was the start of a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Duffel Bag of Army Stories

    by Lauri Castro ...
    A Duffel Bag of Army Stories is easy to read and was written for an audience that is not intimately familiar with day to day military life. The author reveals the fun and confusion for new soldiers who are still recognize rank, the diversity of military chow halls and dining facilities and explains MREs-Meals, Ready to Eat.  One chapter, At Ease, Soldier offers numerous accounts of humor in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There

    We Were Soldiers Too, #2

    by Bob Kern ...
    Series Book 2 - We Were Soldiers Too
    Finalist for eBook of the Year General Nonfiction and Finalist for Book of the Year Nonfiction Military History in 2016***#1 Amazon Best Seller Cold War History for 5 Weeks***Ground zero for a nuclear war was just over an hour northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. The small town of Fulda is nestled at the base of a natural gap in the hilly wooded terrain of West Germany and was a corridor between East ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A la vôtre mon Colonel

    Après une trentaine de romans comme un long voyage, celui-ci est la rentrée en gare, le cœur battant «comme un tambour» de regarder son train s’éloigner transbahutant son passé... Gilbert Pastore ne peut s’empêcher de le quitter des yeux et comme pour le revivre, il en fait une autobiographie, car c’est bien de cela dont il s’agit, à travers le colonel Astier, qui en homme d’honneur consacrera sa ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Machine Gunner's War

    From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II

    A machine gunner chronicles his time on the frontlines of WW2 from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and the Wehrmacht’s last stand.American machine gunner Ernest “Andy” Andrews arrived in the UK just before deploying to fight in D-Day. Struck by a bullet in Normandy, he was evacuated to England before returning to participate in the race across France. Andy’s squad defended a bunker in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Medic's Mind

    Matthew Heneghan weaves an intricate web that is his life, in a style all his own. Once a medic in the Canadian Forces and a paramedic in the civilian world, he has a varied and traumatic past. Facing childhood abuse, addiction, suicide ideation, incredible loss, mental illness, he finds himself left rudderless, Matthew chronicles his journey towards a better way of coping.If you have spent time ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Midshipman's War

    A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943

    by Frank Wade ...
    "Frank Wade was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in October 1921. He was sent to England to train for the navy in the schoolship HMS Conway in Liverpool and the Dartmouth (Devon) Royal Navy College from 1936 to December 1940. Then in May 1941 he was appointed to the staff of the Commander-in Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, Admiral A.B. Cunningham, doing most secret cipher messages.At this time ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A More Unbending Battle

    The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home

    by Peter Nelson ...
    The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below -- better than when the shells exploded in the trenches . . .In A More Unbending Battle, journalist and author Pete Nelson chronicles the little ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Nation of Veterans

    War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America

    A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain and then defend their advantages against criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. They succeeded in securing their ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A Patriot's Promise

    Protecting My Brothers, Fighting for My Life, and Keeping My Word

    An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the US Air Force.When Israel “DT” Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A People's History of the U.S. Military

    In A People's History of the U.S. Military, historian Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat—through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs—to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand, from the American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus