Product Description: For most of us, clicking “like” on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking “like” from the battlefield lets his social network know he’s alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home...read more

Product Description: Mrs. Julie Hutt’s fourth-grade class in Roslyn, New York, writes to a soldier in Iraq to thank him for his service and to find out what it’s like to be a U.S. soldier: What is a soldier’s job exactly? How do soldiers spend their spare time? Don’t they miss home? The children’s letters were answered by First Lieutenant David Falvey, a twenty-five-year-old military police officer serving in Baghdad with the Army National Guard...read more

Product Description: During his five years in the army, Private William Edward Matthews wrote a series of exceptionally detailed and engaging letters to his family back home in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Eddie Matthews's letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier's experiences in garrison and in the field in the post-Civil War Southwest...read more

Product Description: Like other families, letters were the fabric that held the fledgling Waldron family together during the personally trying, society changing events of World War II. Bill, the town baker, voluntarily became an infantry soldier and platoon scout in Europe and Marge, a new wife, became the town baker - the Waldron's version of Rosie the Riveter...read more

Product Description: Leland Duvall was a now-and-again farm worker with a grade-school education when he received his World War II draft notice at his father's farm near Moreland, Arkansas, in March of 1942. He departed for training in California, where he began to write to Letty Jones, a Pottsville girl he'd had a crush on for several years...read more

Product Description: On a cold, winter day in 2008, Dorothea McCollum, an 85-year-old widow living in Hamilton, Ohio, pulled down two boxes from the top shelf of a closet. Those boxes contained nearly 1,000 letters that she and her husband Bud had written to each other during World War II...read more

Product Description: During the American Civil War, James Madison Bowler and Elizabeth Caleff Bowler courted, married, became parents, and bought a farm. They attendeddances, talked politics, and confided their deepest fears. Because of the war, however, they experienced all of these events separately, sharing them through hundreds of letters from 1861 to 1865 while Madison served in the third Minnesota Volunteer regiment and Lizzie stayed in Nininger, Minnesota...read more

Product Description: Believing that the best stories are true stories and that they are best told by an actual participant, the author has compiled a World War II love story, based on letters written by her father to her mother during the nineteen months he was in the Army from 1943-1945...read more

Product Description: What happened to a soldier's soul during the Civil War as he faced the horrors of war?Why did a man leave behind a wife and two very young children to serve in the army? Who was Samuel K. Miller before, during and after the Civil War? What was the Mounted Pioneer Corps, and what was their critical role in keeping an army moving? Why was he chosen to be in that unit? When a woman was left with children while her husband went off to the Civil War, what pressures did she face because he was away? How did the women manage their homes while their husbands were away?What were the feelings of a Union soldier as he faced his "brothers" across the picket lines, the Confederates whom he came to know personally? What did they eat? Where did they live and sleep? What did they wear, and where did they get what they needed? What volunteer organizations sprung up to help the soldiers as they fought in the battlefields, either by providing physical help, or in aiding them to be in contact with their loved ones? From his vantage point, somewhat unique because of the positioning of the Mounted Pioneer Corps during battles, what did he see of the battles? What were the forces for and against the war in his community back in Pennsylvania? Who were the Copperheads? What happened to his four Ellis family brothers-in-law who also served in the Union Army?All these questions are answered in this book, "The Soul of a Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War...read more

Product Description: Love & War As Never Before is a look at what life was like for a boy living in Pittsburgh from age five to nine during World War II. With that story as a baseline, the book also reveals the ordeals of the boy’s father, aunts and uncles serving in the war as it progressed from North Africa through Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany...read more

Book by Hughes, Martha Lanning

Product Description: Captain Timothy A. Tate served as a National Guard officer with the 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom II in Baghdad, Iraq during some of the most intense fighting and most pivotal times of the war. He shared numerous thoughts and opinions with his friends and family along with countless photographs...read more

Product Description: November 1, 1943. The South Pacific.Lyle Young wrote to his dearest Marguerite: "We did not choose this war. We accept it and put every effort into it because without it we would lose the life that every man wants. The men know what they are fighting for They are fighting and toiling for the purposes they know are right...read more

Product Description: This is the story of World War II told in the voices of the people who bought victory with their blood, sweat, and tears. They fought in Anzio and Atlanta, New Guinea and New Mexico, in Fortresses and factories. They came from every walk of life and served in every capacity...read more