Books published by Jdb Communications, LLC

Short stories of heroism, sacrifice, Christmas, friendship, loss, tragedy, childbirth,...something for everyone.These are about people in peril, in danger of their lives, their livelihoods.They save others; they save themselves.From pre-history to yesterday, these stories take you from the hunting fields of prehistoric man to Shiloh, from the Pacific to Pointe du Hoc, from Korea to the English Channel, from Bastogne to Appomattox and more.

Young Romance in the style of Fern Michaels; Adventure in the tradition of JA Vance; Thrills like John Grisham...Stella's Game has it all!The Cold War; friends moving away; assassinations; deaths in the family; the Race to the Moon; draft and race riots; Vietnam; marches for peace and freedom; overdoses; the Sexual Revolution; graduations; puberty...What could go wrong?Before there were cell phones; before the internet, before anyone even thought of Google, there was Stella's Game.When Stella sat at her big round table and quietly shuffled her cards, the world took a seat and all arguments ended. Stella's Game was home; a safe port in a roiling sea.See the world in the eyes of two boys and two girls in an affluent Detroit suburb from 1963 to 1974. Watch as their world is transformed, as they grow, laugh, love, and learn in Stella's Game: A Story of Friendships.

Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan’s desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resources, but still, they needed more.All these conquests were driven by the Samurai: the ancient warriors of Japan, answerable only to the needs for resources, an ill-defined bushido code, and their Emperor.They led Japan into a horrible war stretching across a third of the Earth’s surface, knowing full well they could not defeat their enemies. Their plan was the uncertain hope that the West would falter and offer an olive branch, accepting Japanese hegemony in the Pacific and East Asia and granting them the resources they needed.This was a miscalculation driven by a folly of epic proportions. Four months of early and easy victories in 1941 convinced them of their invincibility. They refused to believe that their fighting spirit could be defeated by superior firepower and the sheer numbers of opponents.  And the samurai had no Plan B.