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Healing the Warrior Heart: A Glimpse into the Hearts of Combat Veterans
BY Andrew R. Jones
ISBN-13: 9781492193012 ISBN-10:
Healing the Warrior Heart: A Glimpse into the Hearts of Combat Veterans and their Supporting Loved Ones features poems and short stories by Marine combat veteran, Andrew R. Jones, and over a dozen other veterans and veteran families. The words spark inspiration into the hearts of those needing to heal and provide validation to those who think they are alone.
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Warrior-Heart-Veterans-Supporing/dp/1492193011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379607969&sr=1-1&keywords=9781492193012
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NUTS TO BUTTS: Anecdotes From a Career in the US Navy
BY R. W. Bishop USN(Ret)
ISBN-13: 9781475905892 ISBN-10:
For Rich Bishop, reporting to basic training for the US Navy was reminiscent of Dorothy leaving Kansas and ending up in Oz. The transition from civilian to navy life overwhelming. In Nuts to Butts: Anecdotes from a Career in the US Navy, he narrates excerpts of his twenty-two-year career-from basic training to retirement. He takes you from Basic Training to his first sea duty, to his tour in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, many of the foreign ports he visited, and speaks to everyday life in the Navy.
https://www.amazon.com/Nuts-Butts-Anecdotes-Career-Navy/dp/1475905890
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C-130 Crew Chief
BY Steve Brown
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This is the story of what happens when a teen age boy joins the United States Air Force and quickly finds himself in charge of a multimillion dollar airplane. The friends, the plane and the adventures of four years traveling the world are described in these pages. From paradise to combat and back within hours each way.
https://www.amazon.com/C-130-Crew-Chief-SeeThe-World/dp/1496032950/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400077729&sr=8-1&keywords=C-130+Crew+Chief
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Holding Hands with Heroes
BY Jack Kassinger
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Holding Hands with Heroes chronicles a common man's service to his country--from Operation PIPESTONE CANYON in Vietnam as a young, enlisted Marine, to the halls of the Central Intelligence Agency where service and dedication to a cause became a way of life. This is the story of one man's journey through the throes of war and his selfless dedication while employed at the country's most prestigious, clandestine, intelligence-gathering organization.
https://www.amazon.com/Holding-Hands-Heroes-Jack-Kassinger/dp/1434907821/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400078106&sr=8-1&keywords=Holding+Hands+with+Heroes
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Noble Cause: A CIA Spy Thriller
BY Jack Kassinger
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Mike Shocklee, an operations officer in the CIA is deployed as part of an element providing intelligence support for a U.S. led humanitarian relief effort. In the intense fighting that ensues, disaster strikes. He is seriously wounded and reassigned to CIA headquarters with a chip on his shoulder for not being rewarded. He strikes out at the agency by covertly planning to use Somali pirates to hijack a U.S. flagged oil tanker and hold it for ransom. As the body-count around him starts to rise, another agent puts the puzzle pieces together and has to decide if he can, or should, stop it.
https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-CIA-Spy-Thriller/dp/1936587599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400078539&sr=8-1&keywords=Noble+Cause+by+Jack+Kassinger
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Call Sign Dracula- My Tour With The Black Scarves April 1969 To March 1970
BY Joe Fair
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Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen year-old country "bumpkin" from Kentucky, to a tough, battle hardened, fighting soldier.
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sign-Dracula-Black-Scarves/dp/1620063883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400079354&sr=8-1&keywords=Call+Sign+Dracula
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The Hunt for Njonjo
BY Jack Kassinger
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Colonel Simon Njonjo, a rebel soldier who is loyal to the ousted former president of Zimbabwe, has mounted a brutal attack on Harare Station, a CIA outpost. The bloody assault leaves many station personnel dead and three missing, including Mike Shocklee. No sign of them can be found in Zimbabwe; no ransom is requested, and it's suspected the men have been taken into Mozambique for political purposes. It also is suspected that they will be mistreated, and quite probably tortured or killed. But the CIA's hands are tied when the American president makes it clear that norescue teams are to search across the border in Mozambique; the unstable political situation there makes the CIA employees expendable.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Hunt-Njonjo-Jack-Kassinger-ebook/dp/B00IR5OESO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400079708&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Hunt+for+Njonjo
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Topography Is Fate - North African Battlefields of World War II
BY Photographs by Matthew Arnold; Foreword by Hilary Roberts; Essay by Natalie Zelt
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This project, recently published, by the German publisher, Kehrer Verlag, considers the varied landscapes of North Africa that the soldier of World War II was forced to endure. Thousands of miles from home, largely untraveled and ignorant of lands and peoples outside his home country, he was dropped onto the shores of what must have seemed to him a dangerous and alien environment his understanding of the land limited to stereotype, myth and the relevant army field manual.
https://www.amazon.com/Topography-Fate-North-African-Battlefields/dp/3868284044/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400080051&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Topography+Is+Fate%E2%80%94North+African+Battlefields+of+World+War+Ii
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Hollow Tin Jingles
BY Fred Rosenblum
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A narrative recounting my experiences in the Marines during the turbulence of the late Sixty's; rife with reference to the drugs, music, and politics that interfaced our "unpopular war." These poems, for the most part, depict the time I served with the 1st Marine Division in the I Corps Sector of South Vietnam; from its triple canopies in the Annamese Cordillera to the sun-bleached savannahs that stretched and spilled-out into the South China Sea. I was nineteen years old*.
https://mainstreetrag.com/bookstore/product/hollow-tin-jingles/
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At the End (of Nuclear Weapons Development)
BY Leon Forman
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This story is about the development of the modern(enduring) nuclear weapons stockpile at Los Alamos during the height of the Cold War. For over 40 years, these weapons have been the tip of the sword of systems operated by military personnel serving at the air force's silo fields,bombers and cruise missile carriers, the navy's ballistic missile submarines, and the army's tactical forces. They were the backbone of President Reagan's facedown of the Soviet Union and provide today's deterrent.
https://www.amazon.com/At-End-Nuclear-Weapons-Development/dp/1632681749/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9781632681744
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SHOT DOWN: The true story of Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
BY Steve Snyder
ISBN-13: 978-0-9860760-0-8 ISBN-10:
SHOT DOWN is about author Steve Snyder's father, Howard Snyder, the ten man crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth, and the unique experiences of each man after their plane was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgium border on February 8, 1944. Some men died. Some were captured and became prisoners of war. Some evaded the Germans for awhile but were betrayed, captured, and shot. Some men evaded capture and were missing in action for seven months. The stories are all different and are all remarkable.
https://www.amazon.com/SHOT-DOWN-story-Howard-Snyder/dp/0986076007
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Hot Fudge Sundaes For Breakfast: With One Reason Not To Hurl Myself Off Of The Roof Of An Atlantic City Casino Parking Garage
BY Kevin McConaghy
ISBN-13: 978-1-4834212-9-2 ISBN-10:
Join me on an existential journey into a dystopian reality where all roads through Atlantic City, Afghanistan, Baghdad, Kuwait, New Orleans, and New York City converge through time and space on hot fudge sundaes for breakfast.
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Fudge-Sundaes-For-Breakfast/dp/1483421295
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Little Chief
BY Toni Danette
ISBN-13: 978-1622-877-86-7 ISBN-10:
Little Chief is a true story about a little boy who has many common difficulties as a child. He wets the bed, sucks his thumb and has a mean sister. It makes him sad to have these issues. However, he has hope that one day it will get better.

He tries hard and learns to overcome them. Little Chief not only grows up to be a big chief, but a U.S. Navy Chief!

Little Chief is a real life example and inspirational story to children facing similar issues and that they too can overcome them.
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Chief-Toni-Danette/dp/1622877861
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Jokers - War, Love and Helicopter Pilots - What Could Go Wrong?
BY Vern Hammill & Edward Kral
ISBN-13: 978-1502-594-46-4 ISBN-10:
In July, 1969 the Vietnam War is at its peak and helicopter pilots Eric Bader and Paul Eason have been it the thick of the action. They have just spent the last year flying a thousand combat missions and decide to extend their Vietnam tours to get early discharges from their military service. If Eric and Paul can survive the next six months of war, they will be out of the Army and headed for a winter of skiing in the beautiful Austrian mountain town of St. Anton. Little do they know a Cold War adventure lies ahead--their mission, rescue an East German family that was caught on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.

Jokers is the vivid, sometimes-funny, sometimes-harrowing account of their journey.
https://www.amazon.com/Jokers-Novel-Helicopter-War-Vietnam/dp/1502594463
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MILITARY LIFE - SERVICE OR CAREER A SOLDIER'S PERSPECTIVE
BY John McClarren
ISBN-13: 9781500714659 ISBN-10:
MILITARY LIFE - SERVICE OR CAREER is an honest look at military life. It is for those thinking about the military as a service or career. It will also spark memories for those who have already served. It is educational and entertaining. John shows the positives and negatives, emphasizing the military is not for everyone. You will experience humor, terror, suspense, and adventure. Leadership, maturity and personal growth are natural results of military service, shown through real life stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Military-Life-Service-Soldiers-Perspective/dp/1500714658
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