Into the Darkness    by Arthur Hoyle
Price: $3.99 USD. 45390 words. Language: English. Published by David Vernon on January 31, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Military.
"Into the Darkness" is the true story of a young Australian thown into the crucible of the air war over Europe. Navigator, Arthur Hoyle, discovers the excitement, the comraderie and the fear of being part of Bomber Command. This book dramatically recreates the the trials of air crews over the dark skies of Europe — where the chance of surviving the full ‘tour’ was very low.

The Weekend Trippers    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $2.99 USD. 74340 words. Language: English. Published on January 31, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Biography.
Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais Force. Outnumbered by at least three to one they held out for 4 days against the might of the 10th Panzer Division until they finally ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.

Great Military Commanders: Marlborough, Wellington and Slim    by Saul David
Price: $5.99 USD. 15240 words. Language: English. Published by Matthew Lynn on January 27, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.
This stimulating long essay will provoke intense discussion among military historians as well as providing a compelling introduction to the lives of the greatest British generals, three in particular - Marlborough, Wellington and Slim. Of these three towering figures, who deserves the accolade of ‘the greatest’?

A Merchant Seaman's Survival - An Autobiography - An Escape Story of World War II    by Edward J. Sweeney
Price: $6.89 USD. 53510 words. Language: English. Published by Allan J. Sweeney  on January 17, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
This is a true-life World War 2 escape story. Edward J Sweeney’s merchant ship was sunk by a German raider, which led to hair-raising escapes from jails in France and Spain. He was re-captured and escaped from a German troop train on the way to a labour camp; a concentration camp in Argeles Sur Mer, France; and from the notorious labour concentration camp at Miranda de Ebro, in Spain...

Combat Crew    by John Comer
Price: $4.99 USD. 104060 words. Language: English. Agented by Dystel and Goderich Literary Management on January 11, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.
Combat Crew is one of the best memoirs about the air war over Europe ever written. John Comer kept a journal of the 25 missions he flew in 1943 when the casualty rate on his base was close to 80%. After each raid Comer gathered the crew together and pieced together the air battle from a 360-degree perspective. His book is handwritten history, recorded within hours after the battles occured.

The Prince 1908    by Niccolo Machiavelli
Price: $7.99 USD. . Language: English. Published by Dracko Publishing  on January 5, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.
War tactics for would-be princces and warlords, as an ancient rhetoric.

Liberty    by Karen Sunde
Price: Free! 19590 words. Language: English. Published on December 27, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
Presents “the making of a hero least likely,” when George Washington, in the final months of 1776, leads the bedraggled Continental Army. They are chased out of New York, down New Jersey, vomited half-naked on the Pennsylvania bank of the Delaware, then finally turn, charge...and become America. A full-length play first performed in New York, 1978.

The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century - Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich    by Glen Yeadon
Price: $5.99 USD. 288920 words. Language: English. Published by Progressive Press on December 24, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
Exposes how US elitists launched Hitler, then recouped Nazi assets to lay the postwar foundations of a modern police state, complete with controlled corporate media. Fascists won WWII because they ran both sides. "A valuable history of the relationship between big business in the United States and European fascism...The story is shocking and sobering and deserves to be widely read."– Howard Zinn

Herbert Hopp's Story    by Thomas Hopp
Price: $0.99 USD. 5040 words. Language: English. Published on December 24, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
This is the true story of Herbert Albert Hopp, Navy airman in World War II. The turret gunner of a Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber, Herb saw action of a kind only very few men experienced in that great conflict. Reading this, you will doubt that any one man ever faced such hell on earth or fought so valiantly. But believe it. It's true.

Spirit Over Steel - A Chronology of the Second World War    by John Thompson
Price: $6.99 USD. 177030 words. Language: English. Published on December 17, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
The largest, most complex and most destructive war humanity has yet fought, the Second World War escapes easy description. Spirit over Steel is more than just a chronology of the war's main events, it also weaves in hundreds of individual threads into the tapestry of the whole conflict and yet never loses sight of the overall picture.