The Other Side of Rock and War
One Man's Battle To Save His Life, His Career, His Country and The Orphans He Left Behind.
Mothers Over Nangarhar
MOTHERS OVER NANGARHAR is an unusual and powerful war narrative, focusing less on the front lines of combat and more on the home front, a perspective our American cultural canon has largely ignored after 222 years at war. In her stunning poetry debut, Pamela Hart concentrates on the fears and psychological battles suffered by parents, lovers and friends during a soldier’s absence and return home, if indeed there’s a return. With honest grit and compassionate imagination, Hart describes her own experience having a son overseas, incorporating lyric meditations, photography, news articles, support group meetings, family interviews, oral histories, and classic literature to construct a documentary-style narrative very much situated in the now. Blending reality with absurdism and guided openly by a Calvino kind of logic, Hart reveals to us a crucial American point of view.
1951: From Khaki to Air Force Blue
Lucy Leigh Simms became a woman in the Air Force in 1951, uncertain about what changes in her life to expect. She soon found out. The Air Force became a separate branch of the military in September 1947, and women were granted the right to serve permanently in the military the following June. Conscriptions and enlistments were low. Our country was at peace. That changed in June 1950 when a war that was not called a war erupted in Korea. Men and women were called upon to serve their country and help save South Korea from communistic North Korea. Deciding it was her patriotic duty, Lucy joined the Air Force. She received her basic training at old Kelly Air Field, not Lackland, which was overcrowded with men and had been investigated by the Senate. After basic training Lucy was sent to Lowry Air Force Base for technical training. At the completion of her technical training she was sent to James Connally Air Force Base in Waco, Texas, where she was the first WAF in the newly activated 3565th WAF squadron. Although the Air Force was fully integrated, there were airmen who felt it should remain an all-white Air Force. Having been born in the North, Lucy found segregation hard to accept and was involved in a few unpleasant incidents because of her convictions.
For Good Reason
Twenty years after young Daniel Mulvaney survived the Vietnam War, his memoir has made him a best-selling author. Danny’s newfound celebrity has also brought an unforeseen problem.
The Indestructible Man
Dixie Kiefer was a true World War II hero. He was the first man to fly an airplane off a ship at night, executive officer on the carrier USS Yorktown at the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and skipper of USS Ticonderoga when she came under brutal attack by Japanese kamikaze planes.
The Black Scorpion Pilot
Captain Ford Stevens is again called into service in veteran Lawrence A. Colby’s latest action-packed military suspense novel.
No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor
A Memoir of a Mortuary Affairs Marine
A Fierce Glory: Antietam — The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
New book on Antietam—America's bloodiest day and the Civil War's pivotal battle
50 Years After Vietnam
Bill Lord’s new book "50 Years After Vietnam" is the irreverent but poignant memoir of a young draftee. Lord and his fellow soldiers were 19- and 20-year-olds fighting on the front lines in 1968. They were ill-prepared for the terror of battle, and shocked when they were often vilified when they came home.
The Final Battle - An Untold Story of WWII's Forty-Second Rainbow Division
Honor Our WW II Unsung Heroes and Read About Their Untold Story