Fiction, War & Military
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Ofia Became Home
A novel based on the true story of displaced Igbere people by Ndukwe Uche
“Ala Igbere ejegh ekwo.” (The Igbere land will shield.) —Igbere saying On March 30, 1969, the Nigerian army overran Igbere, one of a handful of Biafran communities still free after two years of the Nigeria-Biafra War. A sudden murderous invasion ...
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All Bleeding Stops
by Michael J Collins
What does a doctor do when he thinks his best is not good enough? Matthew Barrett, thirty-one years old and fresh out of residency, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat surgeon in 1967 at the heightof the Vietnam War. Compassionate and ...
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Marines of Quế Sơn
A Tale by R.B. MacNichol
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, there is a place of deadly fighting, strange sightings and rumors, and whispers of hidden treasure, it is known as the Quế Sơn Valley. As the war intensifies, a Marine patrol is ambushed, men are wounded; one ...
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Wind, Gravel and Ice
Memoir of my Opa as a Canadian Soldier in Iceland during the Second World War by Christina Chowaniec
When Christina discovers her Grandfather’s diary years after his death, she is surprised to learn he had been stationed in Iceland as a young Canadian soldier in the early days of the Second World War. Intrigued, she sets out on a decade long ...
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Trench
by Daniel Freedman
Set during the bloody hand-to-hand combat between Allied and German troops in the First World War, Trench is centred on the lives of Reilly Weathers and Sean Foley, two young soldiers in the British Fourth Army, 32nd Division. As the men fight the ...
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Green War: An Unmanifest Destiny
by H-Beam Hammer
By the year 2027, on the North American landmass, East of the Mississippi River, a new government had risen in Philadelphia, bringing stability back to everyplace it had touched. This entity became known as the Restored American Federal Government, ...
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Battlefield of Dreams
by Michael William Dellheim
Dreams haunt him. Should he embrace what his visions are showing him? Or flee from the horrors of war? Michael is plagued by dreams. When he falls asleep at night, he keeps envisioning his three brothers-in-arms and wishing he could join them in ...
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The Search
by John M. Jefferson
For over 900 years after The Disaster, the poorly understood event that almost destroyed civilization, the island of Gista has had no outside contact. Many believe Gista and the Great Ocean are the whole of the world of Neptu. But fueled by the ...
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Short Stories of One Who Comes and Goes
by L.W. Coffee
ONE WHO COMES AND GOES is a collection of short stories based on real life events and written in that spirit. When John Silver came home from Vietnam he was suffering from PTSD but he didn’t know. For 46 years he dealt with PTSD. Yes, there was ...
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There Will Be War
by Robert Kennedy Bell
It is summer, 1884. Most folks in the fledgling community of Blaris in western Manitoba have had two to three years to establish their subsistence farms. All have the long-term view that when there are railroads to carry their grains and livestock ...
