digital editions by Daniel FordI'm gradually making my books and short pieces available in digital form, including for Amazon's elegant Kindle reader. (You can also read Kindle e-books on Apple's iPhone or--my favorite--the Apple iPod Touch.)More recently, Smashwords has provided a platform for e-books that can be read in almost any popular format, including on the Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, or Touch, or on your computer wherever you might be. Here's a dollar-off coupon for Incident at Muc Wa on Smashwords: LH23Y. Paste it in you check out, and the novel is yours for $2.99 (good until January 31). And if you prefer paper editions, just click here. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II A new edition of Olga Greenlaw's memoir of her year with the AVG. From the iUniverse paperback (278 pages) but with few or no photographs. $3.99 for the Kindle edition. 
The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam The Vietnam War before it all went wrong: a reporter's journal. From the iUniverse paperback (212 pages) but with few or no photographs. $3.99 for the Kindle edition. novels 
Michael's War: a story of the Irish Republican Army Star-crossed lovers during the Irish rebellion and civil war, 1916-1923. From the iUniverse paperback (206 pages). $3.99 for the Kindle edition 
Remains: a story of the Flying Tigers
Fitz, Blackie, their British and Anglo-Burman girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot--they meet at Rangoon. From the iUniverse paperback (240 pages). $3.99 for the Kindle edition iUniverse: Microsoft Reader PDF file 
Incident at Muc Wa: a story of war in South Vietnam The novel that inspired the Burt Lancaster classic, Go Tell the Spartans. Somewhat revised from the Author's Guild paperback, which was a facsimile of the Heineman hardcover (231 pages). $3.99 or $2.99 for the Smashwords edition with this coupon: LH23Y (good until January 31). articles and research papers 
Let the Americans Live in the Village: How would John Boyd have dealt with Osama bin Laden? How to get inside OBL's OODA Loop!--a 15,000-word study of John Boyd's theories as they apply to the War on Terror. This is Dan's MA thesis for the War Studies programme at King's College London. $3.49 for the Kindle edition. 
When Sun-tzu met Clausewitz: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and the invasion of Iraq On getting inside Saddam Hussein's 'decision cycle'--a 3,000-word 'long essay' for King's College. $1.49 for the Kindle edition.
The rebel is the same Patrick Forde who inspired Michael's War above, his memoir tested against contemporary War Studies thinking. A 3,000-word 'long essay' for King's College, London. 99¢ for the Kindle edition. |
And with a $29 headset and the free Skype software, you can phone anywhere in the world for 2.5 cents a minute. And of course it's a web browser. I love it!
And now there's the Kindle DX with a bigger screen and larger memory. Both these devices are sold only in the US and depend on the Sprint network to deliver books wirelessly (though you can also download them to your computer). The Lady and the Tigers (Olga Greenlaw's 1943 memoir) The Only War We've Got (my Vietnam journal from 1964) Glen Edwards: the diary of a bomber pilot Michael's War: a story of the Irish Republican Army (fiction) Remains: a story of the Flying Tigers (fiction) Incident at Muc Wa (fiction) Let the Americans Live in the Village (monograph) Question? Comment? Newsletter? Send me an email. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford |
Posted January 2010. ©2005-2010 Daniel Ford; all rights reserved.
