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Iron Maiden: An Alternate History Novel    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 89990 words. Published on August 1, 2009. .

Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the American Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. They trick the government into buying more Monitor-class ships.
A Packhorse Called Rachel    by Marcelle Kellermann
Price: $3.99 USD. 46770 words. Published by M-y Books on November 10, 2009. .

A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a girl of twenty, daughter of a Jewish father, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger.
Sweet Kisses - Memories of Hayden Chalmers    by Heath Buckmaster
Price: $1.49 USD. 37430 words. Published on April 2, 2010. .

From author Heath L. Buckmaster comes this trip through time spanning the Vietnam and Korean wars, children and grandchildren, love and loss. Sophia Chalmers, an aging southern widow, recounts her passionate life filled with heartache, champagne bubbles, and Sweet Kisses.
World War of the Dead: A Zombie Military Thriller    by Eric S. Brown
Price: $4.99 USD. 51130 words. Published by Coscom Entertainment on June 9, 2010. .

In the last days of World War II, an unknown force returns the dead to life. As a new war between the dead and the living rages on, three men hold the key to defeating them. Will they be up to the task before all of Germany and the world fall to the hungry teeth of the undead?
Last Hurrah for an Evil Empire    by Casey Cavanaugh
Price: $1.99 USD. 41820 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on September 6, 2010. .

As the sun begins to set on the Soviet Union, desperation slowly grips this once great empire's staunchest champions. This is the story of the courageous few who fight to hold off that final sunset, and of the American counter-intelligence operatives who bring the Cold War to end game. When a country calls, some give all....
D'eannuosity, A Woman Warrior's Odyssey In Iraq    by Carl Reader
Price: $2.99 USD. 121310 words. Published on March 17, 2011. .

Based on the Odyssey, D'eannuosity, A Woman Warrior's Odyssey in Iraq, is the story of D'eannu Christensen, a spy dropped into Iraq two years before that conflict began. It starts ten years later when her daughter, T'Deannu, begins a search for the mother lost to her. D'eannu is released from years of slavery and comes home for revenge and slaughter. Beyond fiction, the novel is an American myth.
Dragon Lady    by Gary Alexander
Price: $4.99 USD. 80380 words. Published by Istoria Books  on April 2, 2011. .

An evocative tale of the early days of the Vietnam War, reminiscent of Catch 22… Funny and heartbreaking, Dragon Lady seamlessly shifts from Saigon in 1965 to the present day and beyond as the narrator tells the story of his obsession with a Vietnamese girl named Mai, his increasing unease with the U.S's involvement in Vietnam, and his reflections on his own life since his tour in Saigon.
Chickamauga Dreaming: A Novel on the Civil War's Enduring Impact    by William Mathis
Price: $3.99 USD. 136140 words. Published on April 6, 2011. .

An 1863 Chickamauga Battlefield event scars a series of Weston family men in ways none of them understand. Finally, Rob, five generations removed from the Civil War, is forced to confront the event’s role in his life. But first the family grapples with layers of deceit, the South’s racial divide, a wildly eccentric father obsessed with the war and the potent influence of a long-dead ancestor.
Retreat From Rostov Part One    by Paul Hughes
Price: $2.99 USD. 64920 words. Published by UCS PRESS  on July 28, 2011. .

Here is how a feature in TIME magazine described Retreat From Rostov: The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood. This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat.
Mickey 6    by John Koelsch
Price: $1.99 USD. 141700 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on September 29, 2011. .

This war novel's characters, torn between duty and personal ethos, tread deeply into the circumstances that force payment of an eternal price from the souls and minds of those who serve, and from those who lead, as they fight for their country. Themes as applicable to the 21st Century warrior as to warriors from all eras, MICKEY 6 chronicles the struggles of leadership in war.