Ever hear of a soldier eating filet mignon and sipping fine French wine during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War? How about having dinner with the reigning Miss America and star athletes of the NFL during war? "Napalm and Filet Mignon," consists of a soldier’s contrasting journey from an army combat-infantry soldier on patrols and in firefights in the central highlands of Vietnam, to a waiter for the General's Mess Hall—serving the commanding officers gourmet meals of lobster and filet mignon. Documented by letters written and sent home to his mother and sister from 1969 to 1970, author John Jennings reflects on his time in service and the irony of war.

Napalm and Filet Mignon

History

Jennings, John

Military

War Writers' Campaign, Inc.

This is my coffin—a journal where the struggles of coming home from war have been laid to rest. I’m a United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician (EOD). And this is my story. After a diagnosis of PTSD from three combat tours in Iraq and at the heels of a mild traumatic brain injury, this is my attempt to heal. To heal and help others understand the process of coming home from war and the aftermath that comes from getting the poison out.

The Coffin

Biographies & Memoirs

MILLER, JASON

Leaders & Notable People

"Sleeping with the War" is a poetic take on life after combat written by the wife of a United States Marine. Melissa Comeau's dark undertaking of the lasting effects of war on her husband are apparent in this stirring collection. War is an ever present character in this piece, separate from the Marine who went to battle. "Sleeping with the War" is a difficult read; full of heart breaking accounts from the war and the tragic aftermath of the war that comes home. Melissa's writing is fierce and eloquent and conveys the fight with in her heart.

Sleeping with the War

Literature & Fiction

Comeau, Melissa

Poetry

The Voices of War anthology is an annual publication compiled of authors looking to give something back to their communities. It’s a collection highlighting their stories, their words, and an exemplification of their honor to the men and women who’ve served and their families. The War Writers’ Campaign is a literary nonprofit with the mission of generating social change for veterans and their families through written awareness. 100% of all proceeds from our publications go directly back to the veterans and families who share their stories and to The Campaign’s innovative publishing platform.

The VOW Anthology: Voices of War - 2014

LUND, Michael

Petersen, Glenn

Snider, Matthew

Cerreto, Amanda

Dillio, Richard

Fluck, Amber

Lang, Abby

Meador, Kenneth

Overton, Matthew

Shannon, J Howard

Short Stories & Anthologies

As a chewed-up Army National Guard unit heads to a forgotten war in Afghanistan, three men find themselves thrust into the heart of absurdity: the post-modern American war machine. The inexperienced Private Rench, the jaded veteran Staff Sergeant Halderman, and the idealistic Lieutenant Gracie join a platoon of misfit citizen-soldiers and experience a series of alienating and bizarre events. Rench is force-fed cookies by his drill sergeants. Halderman’s “training” is to pick up garbage in the California desert for four days straight. Gracie contends with a battalion commander obsessed with latrine graffiti. Once they reach Afghanistan, things really get weird. Flight of the Blue Falcon is the story of three men who volunteer to serve their country. It’s about what it means to be a soldier, to fight, to know true camaraderie—and to return home. This is a war story. This is our story. Only the most unbelievable parts are true.

Flight of the Blue Falcon

Raab, Jonathan

Genre Fiction

'The lives of Arthur, a wounded veteran of an old war, the love he left behind, an injured veteran of a new war and an Iraqi family in Basra, become intertwined as they all try in different ways to cope with the uncertainty the conflicts they have been exposed to has created. As their stories eventually collide in a hospital in London, while riots outside get closer each night, Arthur tries to free himself from the anchors of the past and ensure his new friend does not suffer like he has. As Arthur learns how to accept his fate he realises there is one more fight he must fight. He must reach the woman who has been waiting for him to return, for all these years, before time runs out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a family try to cope with the consequences of a modern war fought on ancient soil by unwelcome intruders, threatening their way of life and traditions. East of Coker moves through a London and an Iraq that shadows TS Eliot’s Waste Land, asking what duty do those left behind have to those that would otherwise be forgotten and, how through acceptance of what we have done, who we are, and where we are all inevitably heading to, what happiness can be found.' ‘This is an ambitious and thoughtful book, valuable both for itself and its charitable links. It weaves stories of loss and war around a structure of T.S. Eliot’s the Waste Land and speaks for, as well as supports, some of those for whom speech is difficult yet necessary in the wake of past trauma.’ Gay Watson, A Philosophy of Emptiness.

East of Coker

Owen, Andy

The most dangerous part about seeing too much in war is how little soldiers notice its effect on their own life. Perfect Execution is about a soldier who is not afraid to bend the rules to get things done. Out of the military and on his own for the first time in his life, Shane Matters enters the seedy world of Hollywood. While chasing his future, Matters doesn't realize that it's the ghosts he left on the battlefield that are affecting his every decision and controlling his downward spiral.

Perfect Execution

Marnell

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