Nonfiction » History » War

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.
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.
Far From My Home, Never to Return: A Polish Child's WWII Memoir    by Nadia Seluga
Price: $7.99 USD. 84220 words. Language: English. Published by Martin Sisters Publishing on March 22, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

Most people are familiar with the Nazi atrocities of World War II committed against the Jews. Far less commonly known, however, are the experiences of the Poles of Eastern Poland at the hands of the occupying Soviet army. Far From My Home, Never to Return: A Polish Child's WWII Memoir is a first-person account chronicling the dire peril and adversity endured and suffered.
Eye of the Eagle: The True Story of an American Hero    by Norman Miller
Price: $4.99 USD. 54990 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

In World War II, most aviation pilots were armed with many weapons. But in the US Air Force reconnaissance squadron, these men flew ongoing missions over enemy lines, photographing enemy targets before and after they were bombed – facing onslaughts of enemy fighters and armed with -- a camera!
Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan    by Glenn Dean
Price: $4.99 USD. 91730 words. Language: English. Published on February 26, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Military.

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In 2009, an Army Major deployed a small team of specialists to Afghanistan to identify new technologies needed to fight the war. Braving rockets and IEDs, fighting the Army bureaucracy more than the enemy, this small team worked to improve everything from robots to mine-resistant trucks, boots, and parachutes. This is their story, from the team leader's journal.
The Weekend Trippers    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $2.99 USD. 74340 words. Language: English. Published on January 31, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Biography.

All royalties from the sale of this book are going to The Rifles Benevolent Trust. 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.
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: $1.99 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 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. 288910 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