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Good to Go: The Life And Times Of A Decorated Member of the U.S. Navy's Elite Seal Team Two

"Fractions of a second in time. What amazing violence can be meted out in the blink of an eye."

In the mid-nineteen sixties, Harry Constance made a life-altering journey that led him out of Texas and i…

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Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War

“A revealing, sometimes gut-wrenching war memoir that examines virtually every aspect of his tour of duty." —Marc Leepson, Arts Editor and Senior Writer, The VVA Veteran magazine

In 1969, Darren Walton…

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Point Man

Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member -- a "plank owner" -- of America's …

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Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experi…

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Drafted!: My Year in Vietnam

2024 IBPA Gold Ben Franklin Award Winner • 2024 Foreword Review INDIES Finalist

Morgan and I both served in the very same unit, and his memoir brought back many powerful memories for me. Our tours over…

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15 Months in SOG: A Warrior's Tour

"When we cross the no ID, and it's kiss yourself good-bye if Charlie gets ahold of you." In Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command's Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) fielded small recon tea…

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Seal Pointman

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Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior

“Dale Hanson takes us from a northern Minnesota boyhood to the incredible stresses of U.S. special operations during the Vietnam War, the deadly world of MAC-V-SOG, the top-secret Special Forces proje…

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Cheerful Obedience

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The FNG: A Prequel to the Iron Triangle

This is a prequel to my first novel, 'The Iron Triangle'. In reading my reviews, I realized many readers wanted the origin story of Sergeant Holt. In this book, The FNG, we follow a young, eighteen ye…

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One Shot - One Kill

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The Dying Place

At twenty-five yards the front sight of the machine gun nearly covered the back of the reclining soldier’s head. So begins The Dying Place, David Maurer’s unflinching look at MACV-SOG, Vietnam, and a …

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Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 - 1967

Firefights, mortar attacks, and friendly fire were all part of the experiences of an infantryman in the jungles of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. But bugs, leeches, exhaustion, swamps, accidents, s…

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The Iron Triangle: A Novel of the Vietnam War

The Iron Triangle, tells the story of a ill conceived mission that goes horribly wrong. It is a character driven story concentrating on the soldiers of a single squad. It shows the unrelenting brutali…

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Six Silent Men...Book Three: 101st LRP / Rangers (101st LRP Rangers 3)

"The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ."By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT Book Three describes some of the fierce…

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