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Afghan Journal: A Soldier's Year in Afghanistan    by Jeff Courter
Price: $9.99 USD. 102200 words. Published on June 22, 2010. .

Journey to a remote corner of Afghanistan with Sergeant First Class Jeff Courter, as he leaves his civilian family life in Chicago and trains Afghan Border Police to defend their own turf. Learn how the U.S. Army struggles to bring stability to a region where fear and poverty rule. And discover how one man searches his soul to reconcile the personal, professional and spiritual challenges of war.
Letters From Under the Mushroom Cloud    by Ray Hoy
Price: $2.99 USD. 11420 words. Published by The Fiction Works  on June 29, 2010. .

Ray Hoy is one of the dwindling number of so-called "Atomic Soldiers" whose Signal Corps unit provided communications for the above ground atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert in 1957. While there he witnessed numerous above ground "shots" and, unlike thousands of his fellow soldiers, has lived to tell about it. This is a humorous, chilling account of those tests.
Chow    by Victoria A. Hudson
Price: Free! 4360 words. Published on February 9, 2011. .

An Army moves on its stomach but sometimes, you eat like a native or at least what you can scrounge. Chow explores one Soldier's best meals ever.
Soldiers’ Tales - As told to the folks back home    by Barbara Hayes
Price: $1.99 USD. 26230 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on April 20, 2011. .

Genuine tales told by soldiers from the Boer War of 1899 to Afghanistan in 2011. The clear unvarnished truth from men who were in the tranches of World War I, who flew bombing missions over Germany in World War II, who were captured by the Japanese, who invaded Suez in 1956, who met Russians in the Cold War and much else besides.
Melpomene's Hand    by Candace Hennekens
Price: $0.99 USD. 52870 words. Published on August 1, 2011. .

This is a story being replayed as soldiers return from Iraq and Afghanistan. The characters in this novel give you some insights. There is Peter who has returned from the Iraqi war physically intact, and Billie, his wife, who is relieved he is home seemingly okay. As the months pass, it becomes clear Peter suffers from P.T.S.D. He refuses treatment, and turns on his wife. Can she save herself?
A Soldier's Guardian Angel!    by Brian D. Beckstead
Price: $2.99 USD. 4830 words. Published on December 14, 2011. .

The faith of a young boy and his small dog's Guardian Angel restore the faith of a family and save the lives of many soldier's serving in the war.
The Blue Water Moved    by Sara Hanan
Price: Free! 830 words. Published on December 30, 2011. .

A teenage boy on drugs battling for his busy soldier-father’s love and attention.
From Zero to Hero: A Soldiers Story    by Jeremy Green
Price: $1.49 USD. 27780 words. Published on January 14, 2012. .

From Zero to Hero offers an insight into the role of just one soldier out of the many thousands in the British Infantry deployed to Afghanistan. These modern day heroes risk their lives on a daily basis to help bring peace to a troubled country. Some of these soldiers are fresh out of school or college and within a few months find themselves in a war zone fighting for their lives.
Take the Shilling    by Raymund Eich
Price: $6.99 USD. 94900 words. Published on January 16, 2012. .

The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.
A Common Bond II    by Richard Epstein
Price: $4.99 USD. 26740 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on May 23, 2012. .

This eloquent anthology, carefully stitched together by veteran Richard Epstein, contains poetry, prose, and songs written by 21 Memorial Day Writers' Project participants, and spans 1993 – 2011, a period in United States history that began in peacetime and has stretched into the longest war fought since Viet Nam. This sampling will make your heart bleed, but your soul will smile.