Joe Freitus: 15 books

VOICES FROM A DISTANT WAR is a collection of 44 short memoirs of those who were part of war, each written in the writers’ own hand. The histories range from experiences at Pearl Harbor during the bombing, the capture of Wake Island, surviving the sinking of the USS Huston and becoming POWs on the...

Five years after the bloodiest war in history, World War II, the world again went to war, this time in a remote place called Korea. Editor Joe Freitus has put together these are histories of men and women who fought that war in far-away Korea.

During the the terrible winter of 1778-79, the colonies were punished with several fierce Northeasters and record snow falls.  The town of Colebrook weathered the harsh winter only to have a black schooner known as the Black Swan appear and bombard them. Seeking revenge, Aaron Tarbell and Josiah Fitch hunt the schooner in the northern waters of Nova Scotia.

Traditional warfare would change forever when David Bushnell solved the problem of how to explode gunpowder underwater. These floating, wooden kegs, filled with gunpowder were used by the privateers to destroy British shipping. Join me and read how Tarbell and Fitch use them successfully to harass...

George Washington is desperate to keep his rag-tag army together. He sends U.S. Marine Lieutenant Josiah Fitch to Colebrook, Connecticut to assist Aaron Tarbell, a curmudgeon Yankee Privateer, in capturing English shipping in Long Island. While raiding British shipping, sending military supplies...

De Groot was a master at landing amphibian aircraft on water, bringing the plane down with a slight bounce as the hull touched the water. Typical of geese, the metal bird was at home in the air, graceful and beautiful in flight but waddled in the water. A single flight, it was the beginning of an adventurous and harrowing escape from China to Australia during war time in 1942

The Vietnam War was one of the longest wars in American history, and one of the most unpopular wars of the 20th Century. Read about the war that resulted in 60,000 American deaths. These histories, as written, are the voices of men and women who served and survived in that brutal far-off conflict.

Samuel Reed, orphaned as a child in England, was taken in by kindly folks, served his apprentice as a carpenter and departed for the Puritan world of Massachusetts. Concord, Massachusetts found him working to construct a meeting house. When completed he joined a trading expedition to the frontier...

In World War Two, Air Force Captain Brick Masconi is shot down during the Italian Campaign. He manages to parachute into German-held territory, where he gets rescued by an Italian Contessa. While planning his escape, he falls in love with the Contessa. But can he make it home to salvage the battlefield scrap and return to his beloved after the war?

Josiah, a freed slave, sets out to see the 1754 Virginia frontier before it disappears under the white man’s farm and plow. Off to a harrowing start, his life is saved by a dead man. With a fresh start and direction, he heads for the frontier land called Kentuck, home of the Shawnee and Cherokee...

Squadron Leader Colin Mcguire is assigned to command an RAF pilot training facility in Venice, Florida in June of 1941. He falls in love with Anne Ferguson, reorganizes the air facility amid minor adventures, courts and marries Anne, and survives a hurricane, where he searches for lost pilots and...

While Union General McClellen drove his army along the peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederates devised a plan to capture a train load of repeating rifles located in Baltimore, Maryland. Captain John Guthrie leads a small band of railroaders north into Maryland,...

Jubal Crank, a Confederate POW, manages to escape from a prisoner train wreck at Shohola, Pennsylvania. He meets up with a woman who is a member of the Delaware tribe. She helps him to escape by leading him south along an old Indian trail. Always a day behind, Abner Tasker, a Union Provost...

The beginning of World War Two finds Krill Swyrker smuggling ball bearings from Sweden to Norway for the German Government. He becomes involved with Anne Walker, a nuclear scientist, as he smuggles her from Sweden to Norway. The plot thickens when he is asked to transport her and a small group of...