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Tom Phillips

Welcome and best wishes  to all who enjoy reading about military and American history, defense issues and baseball.  This Website discusses American writer Tom Phillips and provides information about his published works, works in progress and biographical material.    

 Phillips' books, articles, and poems cover an unusual range of subjects including:

• Military stories: retrospectives on Vietnam and the Gulf War; leading some of the first American troops into Sarajevo; responding to a terrorist incident; and many more drawn from a long, diverse military career. Phillips' writings on military history include an encompassing look at warfare on the Great Plains.

• Baseball: one of several contributions about our national pastime,, “The Perfect Season,” is a quiet, poignant story about coaching children’s baseball from an author who has savored the game for almost as long as it has been since the Cubs last won the Series. The poem “Doubleheader at Mudville” speculates about what might have happened if Mighty Casey’s Mudville nine had “played two” on that infamous day.

• National issues: “The Day After Tuesday,” Phillips’ poem about 9/11 was the Iliad Press Literary Awards international writing competition Grand Prize Winner.

You are cordially invited to explore each of the “chapters” in the website. “Bookshelf” displays a list of Phillips’ publications. “Books in Progress” is exactly that: material the author is working on or that is pending publication. “Book Store and Reading Room” provides samples and synopses of Phillips’ writings as well as information on how to order those that pique your interest.  “Liner Notes” has the author’s biography.

Proceeds from the purchases of short stories and poems go to three military-related charities: The Fisher House Foundation, United Service Organization (USO), and Disabled American Veterans (DAV), to assist servicemen and women, military families, and veterans.

Thank you for visiting the website. We hope you will pour a cup of coffee, settle into a comfortable chair by the fireplace, and enjoy the writing.

  

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