Books tagged: war in iraq

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Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .

Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical peace movement could only create an irreconcilable "Us-Them" situation. As with the war, there would have to be winners and losers. But to meet a hysterical world with an open heart might bring a lasting peace, an "Us-Us" situation in which everybody won. And to be so idealistic, so Utopian, was embarrassing...
Voices in Wartime Anthology    by Andrew Himes
Price: $0.99 USD. 74540 words. Published on July 10, 2010. .

Poetry, essays, interviews from witnesses to war. Soldiers and civilians give voice to the trauma, suffering, and longterm damage caused by war, and the need for the nation and community to accept the challenge of healing the wounds of war. Contributors include Jonathan Shay, Brian Turner, Jonathan Schell, Emily Warn, Wilfred Owen, Chris Hedges, Andrew Himes, etc.
Leaked Secret Transcripts from Bush's Oval Office: How Rove Made Obama President    by Harvey Wasserman
Price: $3.60 USD. 37010 words. Published on December 8, 2010. .

These "secret transcripts" reveal the inner workings of the Bush White House, culminating in Karl Rove's announcement that he has anointed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. "We have removed his spine and all other bones in his body," Rove explains. These Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft dialogues memorably satirize the top-down transformation of our nation.
Strategy For Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century    by Steven Jermy
Price: $14.99 USD. 92100 words. Published by Knightstone Publishing on February 13, 2011. .

It is time to examine why our military forces struggle on modern operations. The answer is strategy. We rarely have it. We don’t know how to form it. We don’t even really know what it is. Strategy For Action explains how it should be done. Lessons from history, current business practice and new insights are fused into a framework for strategic decision making.
There Lived in Baghdad    by M.D. Mazumdar
Price: $2.99 USD. 89360 words. Published on April 15, 2011. .

Against the background of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the story follows the life of two people. Sameera Begum lives in Baghdad at a time when it is being bombed to smithereens. Mike Pettee, a young marine in the United States Army is on his way to Baghdad, to see action in his first war. This is a story of these two people. Two people whose lives moved on paths destined to meet at a crossroad