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The Bear Marches West: 12 Scenarios for 1980's NATO vs Warsaw Pact Wargames    by Russell Phillips
Price: $3.99 USD. 4410 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2012. Nonfiction » Home and Garden » Crafts & Hobbies.

The Bear Marches West contains 12 scenarios set during a fictional Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany during the 1980s. All the scenarios are based on battles depicted in well-known novels, and are designed to be used with whatever rules the players are most comfortable with. Each scenario includes the battle's context, weather conditions, deployments, force lists and a colour map.
Touchstone (2. Family at War) - a time travel Blitz story    by Andy Conway
Price: $2.99 USD. 20730 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Romance » Time travel.

Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a pair of mismatched History students who stumble upon an old gravestone that catapults them back in time. Dealing with the catastrophic fallout of their previous encounter with Amy Parker in 1912, they now race to locate Amy during the 1940 Blitz and become caught up in the nightly German bombings of Birmingham and their chilling aftermath.
Rho Magna, the Laotian War Dragon    by Mark Berent
Price: Free! 3830 words. Language: English. Published on May 17, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

Combat fighter pilot Mark Berent writes of a dragon-shaped karst mountain in Laos along the Ho Chi Minh Trail that bristles with physical and psychological danger. He writes of it as he first saw it on an F-4 FAC mission from Ubon RTAFB in 1969. Then he adds an excerpt from "Phantom Leader," one of his historical fiction books about war and politics in the Vietnam era.
America's Heroes:; Untold Stories of Honor, Courage and Sacrifice    by J. Jackson Owensby
Price: $9.99 USD. 103710 words. Language: English. Published by A-Argus Better Book Publishers  on May 11, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Military biography.

Combat wounded veterans from World War II, Korea, Bosnia, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq tell their stories in their own words for the first time.
Survivors: The A-bombed Trees of Hiroshima    by David Petersen
Price: $5.99 USD. 22500 words. Language: English. Published on May 9, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

"Survivors", a pictorial journey into the heart of Hiroshima, describes and illustrates more than 50 sites with 75 treasured trees, shrubs, and groves dating from before the bombing on August 6th 1945. This condensed Smashwords version features a forward, introduction, postscript, and reference section, as well as translations of essays by the a-bomb survivor Tamiki Hara.
Prayers in Stone: Nagasaki's A-Bomb Heritage Sites    by David Petersen
Price: $5.99 USD. 49470 words. Language: English. Published on May 1, 2012. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

This condensed Smashwords version of Prayers in Stone provides an overview of more than 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites. The entries are organized into a series of tours for the convenience of tourists actually visiting the city, and to give the general reader a sense of the layout and the proximity to the hypocenter.
The Girl from Latvia    by Kathie Harrington
Price: $0.99 USD. 1770 words. Language: English. Published on April 29, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

War crept silently into my life when most little girls enjoy playing jacks and jumping rope; when the soft echoes of the past dance upon early adolescent innocents. Yes, World War II came softly into my life.
Jason's Helmet    by Linda Heinrich
Price: $9.99 USD. 37820 words. Language: English. Published on April 24, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

Jason's helmet is the true story of a WW2 helmet's journey home from the Normandy battlefield. Roger Pillu found the helmet after a battle, picked it up and vowed to return it to the family to thank them for their sacrifice and his freedom. He kept it in safe keeping until the sixtieth anniversary of d-day. He wrote the letter to Jason's brother, 'we have the helmet of your brother. Come...'
The Protected Will Never Know: 10th Anniversary Edition    by Don Meyer
Price: $7.99 USD. 70410 words. Language: English. Published by Two Peas Publishing  on April 9, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Entering the Army in June of 1969 and “In Country” by November, there began the journey. Vietnam was more than just a war. Vietnam was also the oppressive heat of the jungle, the bugs and mosquitoes, the snakes, the swamps and rice paddies, the monsoon rains and the constant grind of “Humping the Boonies.”
A Genteel Spy    by Judith Riker Damon
Price: $6.99 USD. 51650 words. Language: English. Published by Two Peas Publishing  on April 9, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Betsey Royce knows better than to say anything on that day in 1862 when she peeks around the upstairs bedroom door to discover her mother staring out the window with a pair of field glasses. Martha Royce sits watching and counting as men in blue uniforms march up Columbia Turnpike and into Franklin, Tennessee. For Betsey, that can mean only one thing: the war has come to her doorstep.