THE AMERICAN VETERANS’ AND SERVICEMEMBERS’ SURVIVAL GUIDE

It is our pleasure to introduce our new book, The American Veterans And Servicemembers Survival Guide, available free as a download right here. This book is the successor to The Viet Vet Survival Guide, a book that was published in the traditional manner. The Viet Vet Survival Guide was published by Ballantine Books in 1985, was a national bestseller, and was endorsed by Dear Abby, Jack Anderson, and others. A veterans newsletter wrote, “If a Vietnam veteran owns only one book, this is the one he should have.”

Like that original book, which was a milestone moment in getting Vietnam veterans the care they need and deserve, our new book describes the problems facing today’s veteran and provides realistic, effective advice on how to grapple with those problems.

The VA and the military do a great deal for veterans and servicemembers, and they are doing a better job than they once did (especially in medical care), but they also frequently are ineffective, incompetent, or unfair. This book will help the reader to help himself or herself when the military and the VA don’t do what they should.

When complete, the Guide will contain approximately 28 chapters. Topics include the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs, disability compensation, pensions, medical care, educational benefits, housing benefits, claims and appeals, discharge upgrading, the criminal justice system, employment, reemployment rights, benefits for family members, and special problems of women servicemembers and veterans.

The new book will be for veterans of all eras, very much including everybody from World War II to Vietnam and beyond. But it will give special emphasis to veterans and servicemembers of Iraq and Afghanistan.

There are many advantages to online publishing. The book will be available to servicemembers and veterans without charge, although if you wish to make a donation to help defray the cost of writing and publicizing the book, that would be greatly appreciated - please check here to do so.

Chapters will be updated when a need occurs, without waiting years for a second or third full printed edition to be published. New chapters will be published as each portion of the book is completed.

Please click on the icon below to downloand the new Survival Guide. You will also see three of the other works we have published recently which might be helpful to you, or someone you know.

Click on one of the guides below to download the PDF file: