Killing is as easy as breathing when you are pushed. Don Talbot confirmed this on the day he lost his brothers-in-arms of the Echo Two squad. Silent Valor: One Man's Vietnam War by Rick Greenberg details the life of Don as a Marine in the...

A Wrinkle in the Long Gray Line: When Conscience and Convention Collided by Cary Donham is a riveting memoir of his time in the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he applied for conscientious objector status. Donham’s conviction was that the Army training...

Relentless Hope: A True Story of War and Survival by David L Britt recounts Word War II from a prisoner of war’s (POW) point of view. Chester “Chet” Britt grew up adventurous, building aircraft and being part of the scouts. He was a math whiz...

Japanese-American Shiro Kashino was one of the thousands of people captured and held at Minidoka, a former United States concentration camp. Ten camps were created after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when America declared Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be...

Our Family's Story of Survival as POWs in the Philippines: A World War II Memoir is a gripping narrative co-authored by siblings Pamela J. Brink, Robert A. Brink, and John W. Brink. Narrated from three perspectives, the book gives readers a vivid and layered chronicle...

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home by E. M. Liddick is a wonderfully insightful, carefully considered memoir of one man’s journey through battling a severe separation from self after a particularly grueling and damaging tour of duty...

A Petty Officer and a Swabbie by Charles W Paige concerns his decision to go into the armed forces at a time when most young men were wondering when it was going to be their time to be called up by Uncle Sam to join...

Chasing the Daylight: One Woman’s Journey to Becoming a US Army Intelligence Officer by JoAnna Rakowski is an up-close, in-your-face memoir of the struggles of a young Polish immigrant trying to find her place in America, after moving there when she married an American. JoAnna...

Some stories can only be understood if you see the images of the people who lived them. This is the case of the 65th Infantry Regiment, whose story is told in The Borinqueneers by Noemí Figueroa Soulet. Through the hundreds of illustrations of this magnificent...

Living Through the War in Burma: Boyhood Trials Shape the Chindit is a powerful memoir by Trophy D'Souza. It documents the life of Charles Stephenson during his early years and his experiences during World War II. As a young boy, he grows up in Burma,...