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King George's Computers    by David Shaw
Price: Free! 74570 words. Published on December 13, 2009. .

This story is based on a single piece of pure speculation. Suppose the transistor had been invented in the United Kingdom in 1937, instead of in the United States in 1947? There is no reason why it could not have been. Semi-conductors had been used in "cat's whisker" radios since the 1920's. And once transistors were available computers would soon follow -- computers born in a desperate war.
The Day I Owned a City    by David Shaw
Price: $2.00 USD. 4230 words. Published on January 3, 2010. .

Liberating a city can be a very liberating experience, even if you're not a combat veteran. What really counts is what you've got to trade and how eager the local ladies are to sample the goodies. As Genghis Khan noted in his book: "Winning Wars for Fun and Profit", there's nothing like moving in on newly conquered territory to find out what a society is really like underneath the surface.
Put the Billy On    by Ann Jones
Price: $12.99 USD. 59740 words. Published by Dr David Reiter on April 3, 2010. .

Gives us insights into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the before and during WWII. The story is mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Historical events are artfully compared to the tensions in the speaker’s own life. Invites us to reflect on how far we’ve come, and the precious things that may have been that may have been lost on the way.
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?
Death's Dark Vale    by Diney Costeloe
Price: $7.99 USD. 129690 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 9, 2010. .

A sequel to The Ashgrove, Death’s Dark Vale is also set in St Croix, in a France under German occupation. At the convent of Our Lady of Mercy Adelaide and the sisters truly walk in the valley of the shadow of death as they try to protect the innocent from the evil menace of the Nazi war machine. A powerful novel that brilliantly conjures the era.
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.
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.
The Causes and Effects of World War I    by john ambuli
Price: $3.00 USD. 6100 words. Published on June 23, 2011. .

The Causes and Effects of World War I
Finding Fred    by Timothy Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 14700 words. Published on September 23, 2011. .

Things change in an instant. One minute a family is whole, the next it is completely and irrevocably altered by tragedy. At the age of sixty-two, the author and his family come to grips with the loss of a father and its profound effect on the lives of his family though a set of remarkable circumstances.
Goodbye Beautiful Wing    by Terrence O'Neill
Price: $4.99 USD. 382340 words. Published on November 30, 2011. .

Goodbye Beautiful Wing is 95 percent incredible fact, a nine year story needing five percent fiction subbing for hidden 60-year-old 'secret reports', such as Charles Lindbergh's frank evaluation of SAC aircraft, the FBI investigation of the sabotaged Northrop Wing, the Army Air Force purchase of untested engines, Air-Force-trashing our Stealty-in-1948 bombers, invisible traitors at the top.