The loneliness and isolation we find ourselves in can be overwhelming and debilitating, it's not something we can stoic away in staged instagram pictures and moody soundbites. Creating a new tribe, network and emotional fabric to rely on was incredibly hard but also vital. The people who can make up your circle are there, just be open to who it is.⠀If you can do that, if you can take that step, get past the outrageously toxic veteran community and look at who actually helped when it mattered - they're your people. They're your real brothers and sisters, not the fake 'we're here for you' wankers on social media who won't help beyond a hashtag.⠀ Your circle is out there, waiting for you.⠀ I think these books have been that journey, are still that journey - whether I realised that when I started them or not. I have no idea where the original idea came from to have 3 books in a series, I'd love to say there was some grand over-arching plan but that would be a lie. It was New Years day 2019 when I announced to no one in particular that I was going to curate a book by veterans to help veterans. I wasn't really thinking much past the first book, then somehow this has all morphed into a series of 3. In my mind I knew the book shouldn't be read in a linear way, you don't need to start at the beginning, which became none of the books need to be read in any order or on any particular page. You should be able to pick them up and read whatever and wherever you happen to land on, and take from that what you can - which is hopefully 'something'. Is the last Veteran Collective book? Never say never, it's certainly the last in this 'series' lets say. 3 books out there which are hopefully doing the rounds helping someone, somewhere, somehow is more than I could have ever imagined. There's plenty of other people now getting their story out there, and the more that do can only be a good thing. No one is coming, it's up to us. Maybe that's what it's always been about, never alone. Nunquam Solus

Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Long ago, Kanter Thorton gave Drusilla a locket. Now The Locket Saga Continues when their daughter Elizabeth has the locket. Despite Elizabeth's patriotic loyalties, she falls in love with a British Officer. Will she find true love despite the conflict that is tearing America from the British Empire? As young children, Philip Randolph and Elizabeth Thorton met in the frontier of Western Pennsylvania in 1763. For years, the Atlantic Ocean separated them, but now years later the conflict brewing between the British Empire and the American colonies brought them back together. What is it that keeps Phillip from remembering his childhood and how is it the key to his and Elizabeth's love for one another? Soldiers Don't Cry, The Locket Saga Continues is Cygnet Brown's second novel.

Quentin Reynolds, noted author and columnist for Colliers magazine, was among the select group of American correspondents that recorded and recounted the Second World War in Europe from the very beginning. In this witty, perceptive and personal account the author tells of the fall of France and the Battle of Britain. “Collier’s our reporter tells the inside story of everyday life in England, particularly in London, and makes you feel, for sure “‘there’ll always be an England’”. No mawkish sentimentality here, but cold hard facts about people, conditions and life and death. Reynolds was there in time to see France Collapse and he bears witness to the courage of the French soldiers, bewildered and betrayed by their leaders. He escaped south to Bordeaux, he got to England, to Ireland. He sees the Englishman in his home, his pub, his factory, his hospital, his airfield, his shelter. You meet R.A.F. men, labor leaders, members of the cabinet. Without belittling the punishment England is taking, he gives you confidence in their survival. Interesting and enlightening reading.”-Kirkus Reviews.

Connects military sexual violence (MSV) to conversations about #MeToo and 'rape culture,' highlighting the misconceptions about MSV that have obstructed addressing and preventing it.

Belgium 1942. In the midst of the German occupation, this heart warming story comes to life through the eyes of a child. It captures brilliantly the sights and sounds of war. It is an amazing chronicle of hardships and triumphs, of survival, both humorous and compassionate. A monument to the enduring strength of the human spirit.

Winner, Jane Addams Children's Book Award A young girl navigates family and middle school dramas amid the prejudices and paranoia of the Cold War era in this “excellent example of historical fiction for middle grade readers” (School Library Journal) World War II is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father’s unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother’s stash of banned library books a secret, and getting along with her new older “brother”—the teenager her family took in after his veteran father’s death. When a new girl from Germany transfers to Marjorie’s class, Marjorie finds herself torn between befriending Inga and pleasing her best friend, Bernadette, by writing in a slam book that spreads rumors about Inga. Marjorie seems to be confronting enemies everywhere—at school, at the library, in her neighborhood, and even in the news. In all this turmoil, Marjorie tries to find her own voice and figure out what is right and who the real enemies actually are. Includes an author’s note and bibliography.

Reunited with her ex, a military vet faces internal battles and physical danger in this romantic suspense tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. Mariah Conrad has come home. Badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan and finally released stateside, she has no family to call on and nowhere to go—until Quinn Walker arrives at her bedside. Quinn . . . her brother-in-arms, ex-lover and now maybe her future. Quinn brings Mariah to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate both physically and emotionally. While she’s incredibly grateful, Mariah is also confused and frustrated. She’s always stood on her own two feet, but now even that can literally be torture. She’s having flashbacks and blackouts, hearing helicopter noises in the night. She wants to push Quinn away—and hold him closer than ever. But will she get the chance? Those helicopters are more than just post-traumatic stress; they’re real—and dangerous. Bad things are happening on the mountain. Suddenly there’s a battle to be fought on the home front, and no guarantee of survival.