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The United States was a great nation in the 1920s. We had finished winning the great war to end all wars in 1918. England and France wrote the surrender papers for Germany to sign. Sorry to say, but the restriction placed on Germany was more than any nation could live with. But Germany was under the...

This is the story about a single year in the life of Charles M. Stith. The story begins on New Years Eve in January 1968 in Vung Tau, Vietnam. I had been in Vietnam for the past nine months and I received a much deserved R&R. One week later I flew to Bangkok, Thailand where I met with an old friend...

When fifteen-year-old Mathew Dale Mitchell sees his first airplane in 1910 in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, he is hooked. When he is old enough, he joins the US Air Corps and, as a first lieutenant, begins flying as a fighter pilot in World War I. On a mission over German lines, Mitchell...

Marcus Caius, a Roman legionnaire in the Tenth Legion, has served for the entirety of Julius Caesars Gallic War. Lately, however, British soldiers have begun to reinforce the Gallic army. With the province of Belgica now under control, Caesar plots a reconnaissance-en-force to the island of Britannia...

Hunting at the Old Place is an authentic account of a days hunt with the author's Broxson family hunting party. It describes the old traditional method dog hunters of the South used to supply food for their families. It is more than just a true hunting account. It speaks about the character and love...

Honey The Rock Hound is about empowering kids. Once a kid has learned how to work through his or her grief following the death of a pet or loved one they're equipped to help others for the rest of their lives. A young child will act out different parts of the story while playing. An older child...

OCTOBER, 1962: The discovery of soviet missiles in Cuba has sparked a confrontation with global implications. Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khruschev and United States President John F. Kennedy face off in a perilous chess game of heightened military readiness, hard-line policy, and round-the-clock...

Another collection of sixteen intriguing stories in which fate plays its cards sometimes to the advantage of the situation in which the characters find themselves but often to upset carefully arranged plans. The tales range from the title story where two nations are at war over a sacred artefact, to The Race with two men vying for the same woman.

After serving twenty-six years as a navy photographer, documenting Navy and Marine action in Kores (Inchon, Iwon and Hungnam) and three tours in Vietnam, Ken Bumpus, PHCM, US Navy (ret.), has drawn from his background to produce this novel, a fictional depiction of one Combat Camera Team's Vietnam adventures.

If you were alive during the Vietnam War (not conflict) it probably had a profound effect on you whether in the military or not, whether you loved or hated those who fought. If you pulled a tour of duty in country you know what a crazy mess it was. Even if there wasnt a war going on around you typically...

A unique breed of men and women emerged from the latter part of the nineteenth century. Some risked their lives on the footropes of sailing ships, others rose to prominence in industry, politics and government. Many forged new lives in far-off lands, but all were joined by a common thread to grasp...

Takes place in the fall of 1989 then the spring of 1991 in a small town at the edge of industrial Weston in the northeast (a composite locale in Pennsylvania). Part 1, Fire in the Dark, relates the story of high school senior, hothead, and soccer star Maryl ODonnell and her conflicted relationship...

Pamela lost her dad when she was three. Later she begins a search to find a grandfather presented by such a loss. Armed with a mission to find him, the facts start to skew. Clues twist and turn; and then entwine to such a degree she bumps into her dad's story. and learns the only way to find the man...

In a book that is part memoir, part documentary and part fictional narrative, Richard Bevis follows an assortment of teenage "savages" as they descend on Yellowstone Park in 1957, looking for action (and each other) while working at a variety of jobs. Blending comedy and seriousness, *Dudes...