Amazon #1 Best Seller in its category for several weeks.2020 Rave Review Book Club Awards: BOOK OF THE YEARJohn Podlaski tells a military story like few others can. He is a gifted writer and will make all of your senses come alive.Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.Cleverly Written, Dynamic Story TellingAn amazing story that brought a night of terror into perspective.Step into the shadows of the Vietnam War and join two young soldiers, alone in a listening post (LP), in the pitch-black jungle of Vietnam. The night seems to go on forever, and during times when nothing is happening, John Kowalski’s mind wanders back to memories of frightening...

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When the United States enters the war, Humph desperately wants to serve his country. His frustration grows as he gets turned down by the army and even the FBI. He finally accepts that his battleground is on American soil where he starts exposing Nazi sympathizers. After a pro-Nazi art forger of international repute is finally tracked down in England, he finally gets his chance.

In A Thief’s Winter Tale, the Baxter family’s lives change when Maximus Baxter accepts an artist thief into his home to complete sinister works. The works causes chaos, love, greed, betrayal, and war among them. Art, love, betrayal, and deceit mingle as the artist gains control in the castle. Authorities haven’t caught the artist-thief in the family Baxter’s world. Yet, the family finds greater contentment, while the artist-thief’s life spirals into a powerful, turbulent state, sparking a love-hate clash. He soon discovers he is not the only thief to travel in the winter.A Thief's Winter Tale is three-part book series of Vampire and Werewolf Legend SeriesA Thief's Winter Tale-OneA ...

1943 Paris. An occupied city. But for Winter, the greatest battles are fought within.A story about love, choices, and the sacrifices made for survival, Winter Pale: Surviving in Paris immerses readers into the heart-wrenching journey of a young woman navigating moral dilemmas and conflicting loyalties. Torn between a magnetic connection to a dangerous Resistance fighter and the surprising kindness of a German officer, Winter must navigate a perilous path where every choice carries life-or-death consequences.This is a deeply personal journey of self-discovery, where Winter fights to define her own identity, reconcile her past burdens, and find a place for love and hope amidst the chaos.Please...

How the West Was Really Won is no dusty and boring history tome. It’s a raw, unflinching ride through the blood, grit, and glory of the American frontier from 1802 to 1890. Chronicled year by year, this book lays out the bare and honest brutality of the Indian Wars and broken treaties. It unearths bizarre and little-known facts, while peppering the narrative with sharp-witted tall tales, folklore, and quips to keep you entertained. From the Lewis and Clark expedition to the closing of the frontier, every page pulses with vivid stories of triumph, tragedy, and treachery. You'll also learn about the everyday people who made the West their home, from farmers to cowboys to Native Americans. Co...

When bon vivant Italian opera star-turned-pilot Pietro is shot down during World War II he nearly loses his life. Worse, he's lost his passion for music and is close to losing his sanity in a soul-crushing prisoner-of-war camp in South Africa when he meets Iris. He has a vision of love worth dying for - worth living for - and realizes he must find his voice if he ever hopes to see her again. Iris's dreams are at stake when she meets Pietro. All she wants is for her brother to come home alive from the war and to fulfill her destiny as a costume designer. She has her dream-come-true Hollywood invitation in the pocket of her hospital-volunteer uniform.  But this redhead's life turns u...

Jordan Whitler, newly returned home from the American Civil War, is excited to return to the Rocky environs of Colorado that he has spent the last 4 years being able to only dream of, and to the family that he loves more than life itself. Anticipating a time of peace, where he can reconnect with his parents and older sister, and re-engage with those in the community, he comes home only to find that there’s a new battle ahead to face, that nothing could have prepared him for, and one that would threaten the unity of his family as much as the war had threatened the unity of the country he just fought in defense of. Unlike the battle he had just been immersed in though, this was one that was ...

In June 1775, amid the Revolutionary War’s early stirrings, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien, seizes a British-armed schooner off the Maine coast to thwart the cargo of lumber she was escorting from reaching British forces in Boston. Inspired by this daring victory, Jeremiah leaves his lumber business to command privateer vessels, relentlessly pursuing British merchant ships across dangerous waters.Defying the British navy’s tightening grip on the Massachusetts coast, he risks his life and his ships to capture many prizes. Yet his greatest battle may lay onshore: winning the heart of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a fiercely independent woman who loves the freedom he fights for. Only a man worthy...

A celebration of a few of the female geniuses, artists, innovators, goddesses, and, not to be overlooked, villains. If men were there, women were too in the revolutions, discoveries, and progress. Every one of their stories deserves recognition in history class, a book, and a statue.

Six characters meet in Jerusalem during the final tumultuous decade of Ottoman rule: Jamail, the Sunni aristocrat; Natalia, the Russian Jewess from the best brothel in Constantinople; Wassif, the Christian Arab who keeps the journal; Thomas, the English archaeology student who will later lead armies; Joseph, the Sephardic builder of railroads; and David, the radical socialist fleeing from the Csarist regime who dreams of building a homeland.

They all came here...

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A new audiobook is laced with world history, original music and allegories. Over two decades, James Allan Krause, a former university professor and professional writer produced Wetion (2nd edn). The author describes the historical fiction based on fact as  “timely and worldly.”Addy is the main character and wants to understand the family’s genealogy. He asks, what influenced ancestors to migrate to the flat prairies of Saskatchewan in Canada? And before that, Scotland, England and France? Where did all those cultural peculiarities originate? Seeking answers, he conducts an experiment.DNA provides the map. Research, imagination and good old fashioned storytelling combine to explain...

Put yourself in the shoes of a young man from a Small Town, in the USA, who found himself in the middle of the Vietnam War in the jungles & rice paddies of the Mekong Delta region... Relive his experience as an American soldier in the years 1968 and 1969 with his account of his time spent in Vietnam.

Find out what it was like in the day-to-day life of a soldier in the Vietnam War. The book begins with his experiences in training, taking you through his service in Ft. Bragg, Ft Polk, Vietnam, Hawaii and Ft. Lewis. You will find yourself captivated by the missions he performed in the jungles of South Vietnam.