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I recently read an anthology 'Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War'. This anthology has been published 10th Dec 2019 by Middle West Press...
Perhaps an esoteric title, but what I'm wondering is how useful books written about the psychological experiences of one war is with another war?...
This character would be a half Russian half American, raised in the US as a special ops soldier and is fighting on a mission in the Bosnian War...
I am writing a book involving a character who can shapeshift into a dragon. This character is also an important leader in his military. The...
I’m writing a story involving a large Bronze Age civilization that suffers raids from a smaller Iron Age civilization. Is there anything I should...
So.... I've got a setting I wish to write up. Its an alternate timeline, where, 20 minutes into the future, ww3 occurred. There was, well, A. The...
Hey, I'm writing a fic where thousands of gamers were sucked into what looks to be an MMORPG, but with some minor\major changes, and I was...
Help please! I am trying to figure out where and who signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Yes, it was signed in Paris. But where?? I have been...
I've been really interested in WWI for a while now, and, I'm looking to write my own little collection of 'War Stories' that enable me to discuss...
If you have good knowledge, links, books, videos... about international military and/hybrid war balance, you can put it here or ask about these...
Greetings, I am trying to write a story, taking place during the World War I. After a bloody battle our main hero is left alone in the trenches,...
The Vietnam War was a very terrible time in U.S. history, since it tried every Americans' sense of patriotism. Vietnam was going through such a...
If the USA and China went to war over the control of mineral resources in Africa and Eurasia, what are the chances such a war would be drawn out?...
Hi! My name is Ryan, and I'm 16 and an aspiring writer! I have two stories that I want to flesh out at the moment, but I've put one on the...
I'm stuck on ideas for future warfare for both human and aliens that would be practical. I'm trying to come up with efficient war vehicles and...
I'm making a war sci-fi war story, but I don't decide who should be the main team yet. I want them to be no-ones, people who doesn't look like...
Basically, in a nutshell: My character made a blood pact with the Suffering Gods to receive great power and they demanded one thing from him, to...
2 rewritten versions lower down in the thread! So, bypassing all the Dear Agent blah blah, below is the bit about the book that will go into the...
Part of my story takes place on the 70s and 80s and I want to know some major conflicts that happened besides Vietnam in the 70s.
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