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.

How the Allies Won World War II    by Austin Torney
Price: Free! 2320 words. Language: English. Published on March 15, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.
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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.

California Valor, Charles Harold Gonsalves    by John A Johnson
Price: Free! 7760 words. Language: English. Published on October 31, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
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History records no act of greater valor than Charles Harold Gonsalves. In mortal combat he deliberately covered a live enemy hand grenade with his body. He was only 19 years old when he died. The author describes a mild mannered youth from Alameda, California's transformation into a killing machine. This book also sheds much neede light on Executive Order 9066 that incarcerated Japanese Americans.

An Ineffective System: The M247 Sergeant York    by Russell Phillips
Price: Free! 1880 words. Language: English. Published on July 6, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
In the 1970s, the US Army decided that it needed a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, similar to the West German Gepard or Soviet ZSU-23-4. The result was the M247 Sergeant York.

L’Augmentation du parti Nazi    by Kristina Howells
You set the price! 12820 words. Language: German. Published on June 7, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
Peu auraient cru que le Parti Nazi, en commençant comme un gang de soldats sans emploi en 1919, deviendrait le gouvernement juridique de l'Allemagne en 1933. En quatorze ans, un obscur caporal, Adolf Hitler, deviendrait le Chancelier d'Allemagne.

Szent István: Hungary's Battleship    by Russell Phillips
Price: Free! 1530 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
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Despite being a land-locked country, Hungary once had a dreadnought battleship - SMS Szent István. This article describes the ship and its short wartime career.

Battle of the River Plate    by Russell Phillips
Price: Free! 2990 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
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An article about the Battle of the River Plate, which took place in December 1939 between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles.

From Jamaica to Japan: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War    by Thomas Forsyth
Price: Free! 113210 words. Language: English. Published by Ebook Launch  on April 6, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
This is the diary of Winnipeg Grenadier Tom Forsyth who enlisted on the 30th of September, 1939 at the Minto Armories. The diary catalogues Forsythe's war experiences from garrison and guard duties in Jamaica, to the defence of Hong Kong, and then as a POW.

Ramrod the Combat Snake    by Mark Berent
Price: Free! 2680 words. Language: English. Published on March 31, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.
Until the day a friendly FAC presented us combat pilots with a mascot, all any of us knew about snakes was that they were slimy creatures that could poison you, eat you, twist your bones, or crush you at their leisure. But that was before we came to know and love our squadron's resident reptile, whose name was ... RAMROD