Acclaimed memoirist and critic, James Lord, recalls his experiences as a young man during WWII. Paperback edition comes drops May, 2011. Review forthcoming

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

A devastating multi-frontal assault on the gay ban’s history and ideological underpinnings, amply illustrating the shaky ground upon which justifications for the gay ban were founded, promoted, and continually supported. Reviewed by Nathan Tipton

Combines policy analysis and social history into one thought-provoking book. According to Paul Jackson, parallels can be made between the Canadian military and its attitudes toward homosexuality during WWII and its 21st century attitudes toward “the war on terror.” Reviewed by Rachel Wexelbaum

Deborah Cohler examines the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality before, during, and after the Great War, and how they shape our ideas about female homosexuality. Review forthcoming

One of the year’s most anticipated military memoirs—U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Eric Alva’s gripping autobiography—never actually saw a release. Hopefully this no-doubt moving memoir will be published in 2011.

“Elzie recounts his personal story as the first Marine to be discharged (and later reinstated) under the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, and his years as an openly gay Marine and civil rights activist. Iconic gay activist David Mixner contributed a foreword.”  Featured by John Morgan Wilson

20th Anniversary Edition
Drawing on GIs’ wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fought—one for America and the other for their own survival as homosexuals within the military. Originally published in 1990.

In Christopher Rice’s bestselling novel (released in Mass Market Paperback this year) features an Iraq War vet who seeks redemption and revenge when the fellow Marine he failed to protect during the war is brutally murdered.

The author’s own World War II experience as a captive in North Africa and a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany shape this novel of “repressed passion in POW Camps” (Times).

“A very important work, one of the first books to examine how the efforts of state and military officials during the Second World War reconfigured constructions of American masculinity.”—Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary

In the paperback edition, Benedict weaves the stories of forty Iraq War veterans and recalls the complex issues of war and misogyny, class, race, homophobia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War examining the gendered dimensions of combat.

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Richardson tackles the tragedy of war, the trials of coming home, the challenges of family and rewards of relationships in her latest novel. Reviewed by Andrea Peterson

Not long after Pearl Harbor, a young sailor will risk everything to save his beloved commanding officer.

Seventeen-year-old Jamie Gwynmorgan enlists in the Marine Corps because she has nowhere else to go, but she never expects to find love. Reviewed by Pamela Bigelow

Psychiatric nurse, Lieutenant Kasey Houston, has snuck off the USS Console, to join the Marines in their fight against the Japanese soldiers, in May of 1945. She awakens in the future.

Four MM romance authors weave tales of closeted servicemen from fighter pilots to snipers to infantrymen. Featured by Dick Smart

“A former POW from WWII comes to terms with the evils done to him by his captors through the help of a fellow veteran during a forty-year reunion, igniting passions that will sustain the two soldiers throughout their golden years.” Featured by Dick Smart

Two women are brought together when one’s husband dies while in military service.  $1.00 for each sale of the book is donated to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Erotic stories from Jack Fritscher (“Wild Blue Yonder”), T. Hitman (“To the Victors Go the Spoiled”), Simon Sheppard (“Stockholm Syndrome”), Jay Starre (“Between Shots Fire”), among others.