Before history sanitized World War I, a soldier wrote it down in his diaries.Inside an old steamer trunk, a scholar uncovered forgotten diaries, revealing the voice of Ned Steele, a young American forever reshaped by the first global war of the modern age.Beginning in Detroit and ending in the ravaged fields of Europe, Steele's diaries trace his transformation from a civilian volunteer in 1914 to commissioned officer commanding machine-gun units on the West...

In the spring of 1862, three green armies clashed in the Tennessee pine barrens near an obscure flatboat landing on the Tennessee River.Desperate to stop two Union armies from joining forces-and by so doing, to prove his worth to the Confederacy, Albert S. Johnston, with Pierre G. T. Beauregard, led the 40,000 man Army of Mississippi north from Corinth, Mississippi. It didn't help that Johnston and Beauregard didn't trust each other, nor that their army, collected from all over the...

This story starts and ends with weddings. Yeah, I know, a little odd for a story about wars, but there it is.The first wedding is my oldest daughter's in 1995, where she tells me her new hubby bought an enormous steamer trunk with some old papers and diaries in it; I should have a look.So, I look, and I find...you see, I'm an economic historian, so what I find in that old trunk...diaries, scores of 'em. And papers and a couple of flags, some medals... It's not even my perio...

In the frozen skies of World War Two Europe, two mighty air forces fought in a deadly ballet of sudden death. The Americans attacked with their bombers again and again, dropping their deadly cargoes on factories, cities, homes. The Germans defended with their fighters day after day, charging the deadly guns of the bombers, defending their factories, cities, homes...A Wisconsin farm boy with a flying father learned to pilot airplanes before he could drive a car. Answering the call a...

Short stories of heroism, sacrifice, Christmas, friendship, loss, tragedy, childbirth,...something for everyone.These are about people in peril, in danger of their lives, their livelihoods.They save others; they save themselves.From pre-history to yesterday, these stories take you from the hunting fields of prehistoric man to Shiloh, from the Pacific to Pointe du Hoc, from Korea to the English Channel, from Bastogne to Appomattox and more.

February 1945.World War Two is entering its sixth year. In Europe, Germany is on its knees, its shattered cities in ruins, battered by clouds of bombers attacking day and night. In the Pacific, the war has been raging for just over three years-the island battles producing rivers of blood-but only a handful of bombs have fallen on Japan.The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the most sophisticated airplane in the world, was the only airplane that could persuade Ja...

Where ***Stella's Game***ends, Tideline: Friendship Abides begins.Life has its limitations, natural and artificial. Natural limits are nature's doing; the others are ours.Where John Grisham meets Fern Michaels...there's Tideline...Natural limits are imposed by nature--like the ocean tides. The rest are imposed-often reluctantly, sometimes of necessity-by how we live our lives. We set limits on wha...

This Redhead consists only of external dialogues between two characters, Blondie and Red. There are no non-verbal narratives nor any internal dialogues. There are no quotation marks for what they say; just those in their dialogs, nor "he said" nor "she sighed" nor "they cried" tags. You will read of no facial expressions that they don't talk about, no un-noticed reactions or un-vocalized thoughts. Further, you...

***Young Romance***in the style of Fern Michaels; Adventure in the tradition of JA Vance; Thrills like John Grisham...Stella's Game has it all!The Cold War; friends moving away; assassinations; deaths in the family; the Race to the Moon; draft and race riots; Vietnam;marches for peace and freedom; overdoses; the Sexual Revolution; graduations; puberty...

Four friends...two gun battles...two weddings...a fire...family lost and found...what more could you ask for?How about...what happened to Jimmy Hoffa?Join JJ and Ann, Mike and Leigh in the thrilling conclusion to the story that began with Stella's Game: A Story of Friendships, and continued with Tideline: Friendship Abides.From the creator of The Stella's Game Tr...

Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan's desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resources, but still, they needed more.All these conquests were driven by the Samurai: the ancient warriors of Ja...

A incredible true story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to the Arctic (1845-48) which succumbed to the horrors of starvation, scurvy, and cannibalism_______________________________________The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths.Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable "debility" aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during hi...