Military History

	My Life, My Hell This Grunt’s Journey Back to the World By: Dan R. Vaughn, Jr. Price: $12.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-60862-203-0 Edition: Paperback, 171 Pages Publication Date: August 13, 2010 Other Editions: Hardcover
The majority of Americans know of the fifty eight thousand who died in the Vietnam War, but very few have heard of the hundreds of thousands who have died since its end. They are the forgotten victims of a war fought by politicians instead of generals with no real plan for victory. Vietnam Veterans by the thousands have died since the war because of their exposure to Agent Orange, but so many more have taken their own lives to forget the Hell on Earth which they endured. In my book, I try to take the reader back in time so they can understand the real story behind the Vietnam War as seen thru the eyes of those of us who fought it. My story tells of the struggles of day to day life as I and my brothers faced the enemy in battle in Vietnam, and it also tells of their bravery and sacrifice for each other. I have tried to explain to the reader how combat affects those of us burdened with pain, loss and guilt for those who could not return. I hope my story becomes a lasting tribute to those men and women lost in a war in which America seemed to have forgotten so many years ago. I also hope and pray that it will save the life of just one veteran before he or she gives up their struggle to find peace.
	World War II Letters A Boy’s Memories of Hitler-Germany By: Harro Lapinski Price: $13.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-60862-060-9 Edition: Paperback, 192 Pages Publication Date: July 7, 2009
In the year 1966, while our family prepared to emigrate to Canada, we found a bundle of 110 letters in our attic in Hamburg, Germany. They were written in 1942 and 1943 between my mother in Hamburg and my father in various war-time locations in Poland, Russia and the Southern Ukraine. These “World War II - Letters” turned out to be a treasure chest of history, and an example of my parents’ eloquence, wisdom, insight and love. They triggered a tidal wave of long suppressed and ignored memories in me that compelled me to write about my experiences as a 6 to 12 year old “Boy in Hitler-Germany” from 1941 to 1945 and the post-war time from 1945 to 1948. The story line will take the reader from a tranquil pre-war scenario to ABSOLUTE HELL. Eventually “Hell” was overcome. Overcome by the resiliency of the people and how well they adapted to adverse situations with optimism and resourcefulness. I am sure this ability holds true for many war-besieged people in the world.
	The Submarine During the Cold War By: Mark Pater Noster Price: $8.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-59824-892-0 Edition: Paperback, 91 Pages Publication Date: August 4, 2008 Other Editions: Hardcover
The Men, the Pride, the Threats, and the Disasters The Submarine During the Cold War is about the Submarine Service during the Cold War between Russia and the United States. It explains why during the Cold War the Submarine Service played such a vital role in keeping the United States safe. Unfortunately, earning and maintaining freedom came at a heavy price, not just in dollars, but in lives lost.
	The Soldiers Creed By: Martin Gene Durst Price: $10.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-59824-843-2 Edition: Paperback, 159 Pages Publication Date: May 26, 2008
Hard Lessons of the U.S. Army for the Success of a Future America The Soldiers Creed is designed to help you realize that setting high standards of ethical and moral conduct can be achieved. The U.S. Army, through the Soldiers Creed, maintains high standards of conduct through self-discipline, respect, loyalty, duty, self-less service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. Within the pages of this book, real life examples of soldiers portray the lifestyle many spend years trying to achieve. Some examples portray soldiers who fell from grace and the harsh consequences they faced. All are the hard lessons soldiers who have served in the Army, and a few other services, have learned. You can too….
	THE MAJOR By: Ellen Fitzgerald Price: $23.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-59824-742-8 Edition: Paperback, 545 Pages Publication Date: February 21, 2008
Michael John Fitzgerald - From Immigrant to Officer in the Indian Fighting Army The story of Michael Fitzgerald is the story of a nine-year-old Irish boy who traveled across the Atlantic without his parents to live in the slums of Baltimore. At the age of seventeen, young Michael enlisted in the Army at Fort McHenry and began a military life that would take him to key areas of America’s growth. He was a young Army private in the Artillery sloshing through the Florida Everglades in the Third Seminole War. He and his family were held prisoners by the rebellious mob in Charleston, South Carolina after Major Anderson fled with the folks at Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. For his efforts as a field medic he became a hospital steward and helped care for the thousands of men wounded and killed at Antietam. For his actions in Frederick during this time he became a commissioned officer, serving on the West Coast and the Great Plains. During his career he married four wives, the first two in the frontier wilderness. Michael Fitzgerald was a witness and participant in American History. This book follows Michael’s life and directs our attention to how and where his life intersected with the making of America.
	Dear Bill Revisit to Korea By: Gordon Clyde Southern Price: $14.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-59824-452-6 Edition: Paperback, 213 Pages Publication Date: April 2, 2007 Other Editions: Adobe Ebook (read on computer only)
The “Dear Bill” title refers to Colonel Bill Williams, an Army colleague over many years who planned to accompany the author on a “Revisit” tour to South Korea. Unfortunately Bill Williams was unable to make this visit because of a progressive cancer illness. Gordon Clyde Southern, the author, made a full commitment to Bill that he would record the trip with complete notes and photos. The return to the scene of battle served to re-kindle old memories that had lain dormant for the 40 plus years. The assembly of grizzled old veterans provided an in-depth study of the military situation both historically and with growing concern for the current international tension. There are no eloquent acknowledgments in this book from the Generals, the Admirals, those with Cabinet protocol, or from Heads of State. It is nothing more than a soldierly narrative from those who fought along the Main Line of Resistance who seek to render a subtle reminder that historical neglect of the Korean War may tempt modern historians to issue their own revisionist philosophy. There is also a not-too-subtle conclusion that this nation may be faced with the necessity of instituting an Army Draft policy in order to maintain a formidable military might in view of our continued involvement in conflicts around the world.
	Korea -- Back when . . . Retrospective by a Former GI in a War-Torn Land Anthony J. DeBlasi Price: $8.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 978-1-59824-462-5 Edition: Paperback, 55 Pages Publication Date: March 26, 2007 Other Editions: Adobe Ebook (read on computer only)
There were plots and bloodshed in South Korean prison camps, riots in Seoul, and an angry president who refused to sit down and negotiate a peace treaty, planning instead to invade North Korea with his own troops. Never mind the US/UN forces and the armistice! When I got to my assigned unit in Korea, Bed-Check Charlie had stopped dropping grenades over the compound at night, from his single-prop plane. The Gook grenadier hoped in the darkness to hit something or somebody in this communications outfit in Bupyong. The cease-fire had stopped the thunder at the front but fighting went on after the armistice. This war -was not over. Hell broke loose in Korea—five years after World War II—when Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea. As US and other UN troops rushed in to keep South Korea out of the jaws of Communist North Korea, the question on many minds was: is this the start of World War III? The Soviet Union was armed with nuclear warheads and nervous Americans built bomb shelters. 1.8 million of us were sent to Korea between 1950 and 1953 to stop the aggression. In those three years, on a peninsula between China and Japan, one-third the size of California, over 36,000 American servicemen lost their lives. The total death toll was over two million. A peace treaty was never signed. How many Americans know that our troops—some 30,000 strong—are in Korea today, facing the same enemy we did more than 50 years ago? What other armed conflict keeps producing veterans after half a century! This intense little book tells who we were and what sent us off to war. It sketches the role of a radio company, reports a chilling moment during prisoner exchange, takes a trip to the DMZ, samples first-hand accounts of GIs before the cease-fire, and speaks of the Korean people and their culture during those war-torn years. The book is illustrated with photos I took there, including rare ones found in the company dark room taken at Panmunjom during the prisoner exchange. It is dedicated to all who served and still serve in Korea and written to highlight a decisive chapter in our history, sadly almost forgotten.
	At War: Me and My Charley-47 By: W. L. Johnson, Sr., Lt. Col. USAF (Ret) Price: $14.95 Quantity in Basket: none ISBN: 1-59824-336-5 Edition: Paperback, 221 Pages Publication Date: October 16, 2006 Other Editions: Hardcover, Adobe Ebook
At War: Me and My Charley-47 is a new WW II book by an Army Air Force Troop Carrier pilot about the “flying stevedores” of the Army Air Force whose daily work was flying urgently needed gasoline, blood plasma, food and ammunition into cow pastures up front behind the armored spearheads and evacuating wounded in the face of terrible weather conditions. “Operation Varsity”, the Airborne crossing of the Rhine is described in graphic detail along with his squadron’s glider casualties. This photo-illustrated book has an exceptional group of never before published pre-war photos of Hitler, Goering, Hess, Himmler, etc., at the mass party rallies in Nuremberg stadium. These photos were “liberated” under the noses of several hundred SS troops at considerable risk to the author. He takes you from his Aviation Cadet training to becoming a twin-engine flight instructor before going overseas to England with 600 like instructors for a special mission, called “Eclipse”. His 62nd Troop Carrier Squadron, better known as the “Yacht Club” Squadron, gets a new, 23 year-old commander after the former commanding officer is shipped home to avoid being tried for shooting the King’s pheasants. He is awakened to a “Red Alert” to Hitler’s audacious plan to break out the German POW’s in England as part of the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. You spend Christmas Eve, 1944 with him in a French village, infiltrated by German soldiers and disaffected French during the Battle of the Bulge. And the trip back to England turns from “no place to land”, to a miracle. He gets his kicks by buzzing enemy and allied farmers and hunters in his Charley-47, to General Eisenhower’s frustration, but one day he gets his come-uppance. The squadron moves to Picardie in France and they decide to build an officer’s club out of glider crates and then throw a huge opening party with dancing girls from Paris. He even lands behind enemy lines in the later stages of the war and participates in a raid on a German village. At war’s end, he helps liberate Norway and by happenstance, Copenhagen. His biggest thrill is liberated French prisoners of war going “bananas” while buzzing down the Champs Elysée in Paris and the Eiffel tower before landing them at Le Bourget to a super French reception.
	Fire, Smoke, Steel By: Jack Butler Price: $7.95 Quantity in Basket: none
Why was poison gas not used in WWII as it had been in WWI? Firstly, because the Germans and others of the Axis Powers knew the United States Army Chemical Warfare Services (CWS) was ready to retaliate in overpowering measure. Secondly, CWS was justified in and planned to use gas against the Japanese home islands. Only the two A-bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki convinced the Emperor to save what he could. We expected to lose a million troops in getting sufficient force ashore to conquer those islands in Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet. The troops who made it ashore, plus clouds of deadly gas to permeate the tunnels, would wipe out all forms of life—Koreans and Formosan Chinese would have been imported to clean up and repopulate the “Land of the Rising Sun.” This is a story of men from many walks of life and soldiers from many branches of the Army, including the US Army Air Corps, who were hastily assembled to form combat battalions because of one common element—CHEMISTRY. Publisher: E-BookTime, LLC ISBN 1-932701-29-X Adobe Reader ebook 6,461K 291 pages