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War    by Farzad Safari
Price: Free! 810 words. Language: English. Published on February 10, 2013. Fiction » Literature » War.

A collection of the best short stories about the war. Each of the stories in a different angle of the war. The hope that the war must end. War is the worst thing that can happen to man. I am a believer of equality among human beings. God does not distinguish between any of His servants. So why do we make the distinction between themselves.
War Life Death Gloom The Post Apocalypse    by TMS
Price: Free! 2410 words. Language: English. Published on November 9, 2012. Fiction » Poetry » Contemporary Poetry.

Spanning the early day, when we all thought the war will pass, before the blasts, to the middle times of the cannibals, and the suicide of hope, to the post apocalypse, and the children born into it, who grew up to rule the new world. The era of War, The era of Life, The era of Death, The era of Gloom,The Apocalypse, Post apocalypse
Hitler's Theory - An Analysis of Mein Kampf (Part 2)    by Isuru Abeysinghe
Price: Free! 2360 words. Language: English. Published on November 6, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

The first book analyzed the early parts of the book within the context of logical deconstruction. This second book continues to consider the work of Hitler but this time on a physiological level. The book described Hitler's main theories and driving ideas which led to the rise of the NAZI regime surrounding the second world war.
To War in Style    by Mark Berent
Price: Free! 3140 words. Language: English. Published on August 29, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

In January of 1973 we in Defense Attaché Office in the American Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, found ourselves in an unusual situation. In Vietnam, all US forces were ordered to cease fighting and that included air assets as well as the ground troops. Yet we had authorized air support until August 15. This article is about what occurred during that time.
Infantry School: A Soldier's Journal    by Jack Durish
Price: Free! 39480 words. Language: English. Published on June 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

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A personal memoir of training to become an infantryman and an officer during the Vietnam War era. Full of humor, pathos, and the author's personal reflections on the men he trained with and their experiences.
Rho Magna, the Laotian War Dragon    by Mark Berent
Price: Free! 3850 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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Free. *** Eyes Only *** Mysterious going-on with the German atom bomb.
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.