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The Battle Honours of the Royal Hampshire Regiment    by Rupert Matthews
Price: $7.90 USD. 30990 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on August 27, 2010. .

Men from Hampshire have for generations fought in the ranks of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, or its predecessors. All 160 Battle Honours of the regiment are featured in this book, including Blenheim, Minden, Barrosa, Kabul, Paardeburg, Mons, The Somme, Mesopotamia, Ypres, Passchendaele, Dunkirk, North Africa, Sicily, D-Day and Rhine Crossing.
Letters Home: An American in China: 1939-1944    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 101380 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. .

After graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, MN in 1939, John Hlavacek sailed to China to the Carleton-in-China Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. As John describes it, many Midwesterners had little knowledge of China, other than famine, disease, and war. After weeks of training in Chinese in Peking, John traveled to the compound in what was then Japanese-occupied China.
Siberian Prison    by Ernst v Enzmann
Price: $6.99 USD. 147320 words. Published by Michelle Snyder on November 12, 2011. .

A rare eyewitness account of WW I by an Austrian soldier taken prisoner in the Brusilov offensive. This remarkable story of his service, imprisonment, and escape has now been released for publication. Sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, always colorful, this is a must read for anyone who likes source history.