Army Letters: Correspondence of Alexander Smoot 1932-1935 is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, military history, and slice-of-life subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Geoffrey B Smoot, this emotive and well-compiled work offers a poignant glimpse into...

American Wolf: From Nazi Refugee to American Spy is part of the Holocaust Survivor True Stories series by Audrey Birnbaum. This is a coming-of-age story of a Holocaust survivor who saw the worst the world had to offer. It was the year 1941, and Wolf...

Avoiding Muddy Foxholes by Jim Loveless is an inspiring, against-all-odds story about a bombardier who escaped death narrowly in different situations while fighting for the US in World War II. Dick, Jim's father, was in the early stages of his relationship with beautiful Mary when...

A Wrinkle in the Long Gray Line: When Conscience and Convention Collided by Cary Donham is a riveting memoir of his time in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he applied for conscientious objector status. Donham’s conviction was that the Army training...

Japanese-American Shiro Kashino was one of the thousands of people captured and held at Minidoka, a former United States concentration camp. Ten camps were created after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when America declared Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be...

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home by E. M. Liddick is a wonderfully insightful, carefully considered memoir of one man’s journey through battling a severe separation from self after a particularly grueling and damaging tour of duty...

A Petty Officer and a Swabbie by Charles W Paige concerns his decision to go into the armed forces at a time when most young men were wondering when it was going to be their time to be called up by Uncle Sam to join...

A Bloodied Tapestry: The American War in Vietnam from a Civilian War Veteran's Perspective by JanStephen James Cavanaugh, Ph.D. is a moving autobiographical account of a civilian volunteer during the Vietnam War. His story was reconstructed from personal journals written during his time in South...

American Airman: A Memoir of a Wounded Veteran by Jonathon Benjamin is a powerful testament to that rarely addressed issue of American soldiers having a difficult time transitioning from military to civilian life. The prelude to this memoir reveals the author’s beginnings, describing his unsettling...

As Rugged as the Rest: A Young Marine’s Journey to Iwo Jima by Janet Simmelink takes you on a journey through the life of a young man, Joseph Montgomery House Jr. The main characters are Joe Boy and his sisters, Louise, Leveryle, and Gale. His...