Category: Memoir
Tyler Tichelaar Interviews Don Meyer
Don Meyer, author of several novels and the Vietnam War memoir The Protected Will Never Know, was recently interviewed by Tyler Tichelaar. Meyer’s latest novel, The American War, recently received the 2012 Tyler R. Tichelaar award for Best Historical Fiction. An excerpt from the interview appears below. To read the full interview see the original…
Meyer Releases 10th Anniversary eBook Edition of The Protected Will Never Know
Entering the Army in June of 1969 and “In Country” by November, there began Don Meyer’s journey. Vietnam was more than just a war; it was also the oppressive heat of the jungle, the bugs and mosquitoes, the snakes, the swamps and rice paddies, the monsoon rains and the constant grind of “Humping the Boonies.”…
Young Woman’s Civil War Memoir
Published For War’s SesquicentennialFor years, Virginia artist Judith Riker Damon has been the bearer of a family secret: her great-grandmother, Martha Broyles Royce, was a spy for the Confederacy in Franklin, Tenn., during the Civil War. And she used the hem of her 7-year-old daughter Betsey’s dress to send secret messages to her neighbors that contained information about…