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Death Is the Cool Night    by Libby Sternberg
Price: $2.99 USD. 56930 words. Published by Istoria Books  on December 20, 2010. .

A brooding classical pianist-turned-conductor cannot remember the night his nemesis was murdered. Did he commit the crime—or did the beautiful soprano with whom he is falling in love? In the fall of 1941, as war approaches, Death Is the Cool Night goes behind the scenes of a music conservatory and into the heart of some of the most beautiful compositions ever written for voice.
Pilgrims of War    by Carl A. Veno
Price: $9.99 USD. 49880 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on January 20, 2011. .

It's 1941, the Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbor and immigrants are being sent to US internment camps. Amid this upheaval is Doctor Magdalena Russo, an Italian doctor on a passenger ship caught in the conflict. She would spend the next three years in internment camps. Her struggle to get back to her homeland takes her on a voyage of confinement, loneliness, fear and sometimes love.
Quite a Name    by Dwayne Phillips
Price: $0.99 USD. 3650 words. Published on March 11, 2011. .

Gary Harrison's car breaks down in the small town of Riverside. People mumble his name and give him odd glances. Something happened in the town on Friday, December 5th, 1941.
World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume Two, 1941    by Victoria Washuk
Price: Free! 82630 words. Published on October 25, 2011. .

This Diary was written during the World War two London Blitz years by a woman experiencing the nightly terrifying bombings. The diary reveals what the average Londoner experienced during that time; events that today have been forgotten or lost to younger generations. This is volume two of a four volume series written by Ruby Alice Side Thompson.
Qi lái! - Arise!    by Walter Freudmann
Price: $1.99 USD. 64390 words. Published by Edition Katzenschwanz on November 2, 2012. .

Translated from German - available in English 1st time! From 1939 till the end of the war in 1945 the Viennese doctor Walter Freudmann served with the Chinese Red Cross on the side of the Chinese government forces in the Sino-Japanese war. After his return he wrote a report about his adventures in China and Burma which was published in 1947 by Neue Zeit publishing house in Linz, Austria.
"Fools, Drunks, and the United States": August 12, 1941    by Markham Pyle
Price: $2.99 USD. 56790 words. Published by Bapton Books  on February 15, 2013. .

This is the story of America on August 12, 1941, four months before Pearl Harbor. Isolationism was still strong, FDR was hammering out the Atlantic Charter with Churchill (to the fury of America Firsters), the Japanese were ready to kick off a war, most Americans were more interested in baseball and radio shows than in a distant conflict, and Congress decided to keep the draft - by one vote.
Jake Hehl Brooklyn Robins Pitcher And Catholic League Bowling Star    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $1.99 USD. 2900 words. Published on February 26, 2013. .

Jake Hehl is an atypical biographical subject. He was a high school sports phenom. He excelled in baseball, basketball, and football at Brooklyn Prep. Hehl pitched one inning in major league baseball before being summoned for military duty in World War I. He pitched in the minor leagues from 1918-1926. He was a versatile athlete who became a star bowler in Brooklyn's 1940s Catholic Church Leagues.