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From 'Nam With Love: An Infantry Soldier's Vietnam

By Lloyd A. King

Poetry, Vietnam

$12.95

From 'Nam with Love is a heartbreaking journey into the soul of a young man who documents his world during the ugliest year of his life.  King tackles topics like "First Kill," "Leach Island," and "Chopper Down."  Highly decorated for his deeds in Vietnam, the poets grief encompasses the reader.

FROM 'NAM WITH LOVE IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE MWSA 2006 GOLD MEDAL FOR POETRY!

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Never Trust A Man In Curlers
By Tony Lazzarini
Publisher:  Voyager Publishing

Humor
Price:      9.95.

Description: Author Tony Lazzarini takes your emotions on a roller coaster ride with his short stories and anecdotes. Readers will laugh out loud about a crazy million-dollar idea and shudder at a chilling rescue mission from the jungles of Vietnam. Sixteen short stories of various lengths make it a great gift or carry around book. Perfect for airports, waiting rooms, bathrooms, nightstands or living room tables.

Reviews:

1998 “Best Book of the Year”. General Interest. Northwest Booksellers Exchange

Jim Schock, Bay Area Commuter Times, 12/97
"He writes with a runaway good nature, and without whine or whimper”.

A wonderful book filled with life’s humor and ironies., August 15, 1998
K. Woods
 

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Highest Traditions: Memories of War

By Tony Lazzarini

Memoir, Vietnam

$18.95

This is the author's memories of his two years in Vietnam serving as a helicopter door gunner in a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter. He flew over 250 missions between April, 1966 and November 1967 with the 25th Aviation "A" Company LITTLE BEARS.

REVIEWS: 

"Lazzarini does an outstanding job!" - MilitaryReadingList.com

"Touching and thrilling at the same time." - Heartland Reviews

"Best memoir 2004" - RebeccaReads.com

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Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq

By Andrew Lubin

Non-fiction, Iraq

$16.95

is the harrowing and personal account of a Marine Corps artillery unit fight for survival in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Andrew is the father of one of the Charlie Battery Marines, and the book follows his son, Cpl Philip Lubin, USMC, and his fellow Marines as they deploy for war, train for battle, and then fight in the vicious battle at An-Nasiriyah.

REVIEWS:

"...an easy-reading narration...indeed this is Charlie Battery's proud story - and a good read from cover to cover."
LEATHERNECK MAGAZINE

"An-Nasiriyah was won by these young Marines who ignored the sandstorms and kept their howitzers firing... this book is their story."
GEN AL GRAY, USMC, 29th Commandant

"...an insightful account into the hearts and minds of those watching their sons at war on CNN and Fox News; this is the war in Iraq - up close and personal - on the home front and on the front lines."
DAILY DEMOCRAT, Fort Madison, Ia

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Richard O'Kane and the Sinking of the Forty-Nine

by James W. MacMeekin

Non-fiction, History, World War II

Three Rivers Books

$12.86

Commander O'Kane revolutionized the offensive use of WWII submarines from that of a reconnaissance and underwater attack vehicle of opportunity, to that of a speedy surface vessel, capable of massive destruction, and the ability to outrun pursuing Japanese destroyer-escorts. His wartime record proves the efficacy of his actions: 49 enemy ships rusting on the bottom of the mighty Pacific.
 

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Foreign and Domestic

Campaign II: Battle for the Middle States

by Michael Mannske

Radius7 Pressworks

Fiction, Thriller, All Things Military

Hard cover: $28.99

Soft Cover: $20.99

Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II: Battle for the Middle States by Michael Mannske is a page-turning war-thriller that explores the high price of freedom and the cost of fighting the U.S. president himself to secure it! In this sweeping epic, it is the near future, and the UN has now become a superpower, brutally fighting the United States on its own soil. Ex-Air Force pilot John “Spiderman” Trent’s life is in constant danger, his beloved wife is forced into an internment camp, and the fate of the world is in grave jeopardy. Can Trent’s secret force of military patriots save the day—and the Constitution?

REVIEWS:

"A thrilling political and military novel that resists being put down until the last page is turned." - Midwest Book Review

"...Welcome to Michael Mannske's nightmare." -- Minneapolis City Pages

"Cross Tom Clancy with Dean Koonz. Mike knows his science and hardware. I'm a near-history junkie and this is right down my alley."
-- William Sloan, National Liaison, American Legion Riders

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Journey to a Closed City

With the International Executive Service Corps

By Russell Miller

Fiction, World War II

Beach House Books

Tradeback: $16.95, Large Print: $24.95

Journey to a Closed City describes the experiences of an unlikely central character, traveling in a little known part of the world, at the aftermath of a different type of war. The book will appeal to armchair travelers eager to discover far-off corners of the world, and the reader interested in expense paid travel to intriguing locations while using their skills to "do good" in the developing world.

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The Spy with a Clean Face

By Russell Miller

Fiction, Intrigue

Beach House Books

Tradeback: $18.95, Large Print: $29.95

REVIEW:

"Charley Connelly, a career international sales executive, has become an unsuspecting agent for the CIA and is now called upon to intercede in a dangerous game for which he is ill prepared. Miller takes us on a whirlwind  romp through Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East to a nail biting conclusion in the shadow of Chernobyl. Miller's insight and experience have made him a master of his craft."

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by R. J. Morris (Roger J. Morris )

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Vietnam in Verse: Poetry for Beer Drinkers

by Michael D. Mullins

Poetry, Vietnam

$10.95

I am Michael D. Mullins. I have written a book of poetry, telling my story when I was a grunt in Vietnam. I served there from March 1968 until March 1969. My unit was Delta Company, 3rd Battalion of the 7th Infantry in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. Our motto was "Light, swift and accurate." It could have easily been "light, sweaty and persistent." We were mobile and proved it every day.

The stories I tell are about friends, vets I have met in various situations and my own experiences in the rice paddies of Southeast Asia. I continue to seek stories that inspire, concern, and delight me. They make me thoughtful, proud, and committed to their telling.

I have more to write and will continue to listen to the veterans I encounter on life’s road. There are 8.2 million of us, so I am sure I will not get to everyone, but to those from whom I have already learned and those in my future I offer my gratitude, my respect, and my thanks.

“Vietnam in Verse” was recently awarded the Gold Medal for poetry in 2007 from the Military Writers Society of America. 

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I had the privilege of hearing Mr. Mullins read some of his poetry last year. I am so happy to see that he finally published a book of poems. I WILL be buying copies for my friends and family who are vets. Thank you Mike for giving a voice to so many of our heroes that never made it home. - A. McQuiston

Mike's poems are rare gifts to us Vets, he gets it right down to the marrow of the bone with us! The biggest gift that Mike has been blessed with, is the ability to allow others who were not in Vietnam, to clearly understand his/our emotions as we went through our individual experiences in The Vietnam War. -- Thomas V. Gunn
Sgt USMC , 1965-1971, DaNang, South Vietnam 1970-1971

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The book is available from Mullins. Call 765-945-7414. If interested in scheduling a book-signing event use the same number.  Also available on Amazon and through B&N everywhere.

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The Last Farewell: A journey of the heart

By Edmund Burke O’Connell. Co-authored by Julie Whitman Jones and Thomas J. Sullivan, Jr.
Non-Fiction, WW2

Paperback- $21.99

Hardback- $31.99

The Last Farewell, a posthumous wartime
memoir set against the rich, colorful landscape of historic Florence and Northern Italy, tenderly recalls one soldier’s love story through the viewfinder of a still and motion picture camera during the Italian campaign of the Second World War.

An unlikely luncheon date during a lull in the summer 1944 liberation of Florence leads Edmund Burke O’Connell, an Army motion picture photographer with the U.S. Army's 196th Signal Photo Company to meet an
attractive English-speaking Florentine, Tina Calamai. Their friendship steadily blossoms into love as her family’s 15th century Medici villa, the Villa Calamai, becomes his wartime base of operations.
 

REVIEWS:

“This well-written and researched, romantic memoir, richly embellished with photographs and additional historical material, is a must read. My 80-something mother read it in one sitting, saying not only was it a riveting story, it brought back for her many memories of World War II and gave her new insights into a war that affected a generation.” -- Elaine Larsen, Editor and Publisher, Pacifica Tribune

 "Mesmerizing tale traversing the war-torn confines of Tuscany. Well-written, with brilliant photographs. Read it over an obliging chianti and two helpings of tiramisu." - Tom Gollo

 "An intimate snapshot in an important age, painstakingly researched." -- Alan Wald

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