Welcome to Battle Flag Books
Battle Flag Books is a military imprint of Köehler Books, and is dedicated to serving active, inactive and retired United States military armed forces authors, along with their family members and military-affiliated writers. We serve those who have served our country.
![Lifer: My Epic Journey as a US Army Infantry Paratrooper](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LIFER_COVER-550x830.jpg)
![Running Towards Gunfire: Courage and Brotherhood in Ramadi](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Running-Towards-Gunfire-Cover-550x830.jpg)
![Brothers Bound](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Brothers-Bound-Cover-550x830.jpg)
![Limited War: How Cooperation Between the Government, the Military, and the People Leads to Success](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/LimitedWar2-550x830.jpg)
![The Righteous Arrows](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/RighteousArrows3-gold-550x830.jpg)
![Lives Guided By Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Lives-Guided-by-Honor-1-2-550x830.jpg)
![Finnegan Begins Again](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Finnegan-Begins-Again-1-550x830.jpg)
![A Book of Lives Well Lived: The Military World through the Eyes of a Civilian](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/A-Book-of-Lives-Well-Lived-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Green Light, Go! The Story of an Army Start Up](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GLG-cvr-p1-550x830.jpg)
![Suicide Jockeys: The Making of the WWII Combat Glider Pilot](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Suicide-Jockey-Final-Cover-090826-550x830.jpg)
![Chop that Sh*t Up!: Leadership and Life Lessons Learned While in the Military](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Chop-that-Sht-Up2-550x830.jpg)
![Battling While Black: General Patton’s Heroic African American WWII Battalions](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BWB-cvr-550x830.jpg)
![Follow His Lead](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FollowHisLead1-2-550x830.jpg)
![This Troubled Ground](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ThisTroubledGround-550x830.jpg)
![Steel Soldier](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Steel-Soldier-Final-Cover-550x830.jpg)
![The Saigon Guns: A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/71Fb2S4yuVL-550x830.jpg)
![That Which Cannot Be Denied](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/71SbD5Mu5PL-550x830.jpg)
![Saving America’s Citizens: Exercising our Oath for our Country](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/61u27qkoyyL-1-550x830.jpg)
![Carolina’s Ring](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/61lO5wYjYNL-550x830.jpg)
![Cyber Games](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/812wRpGSFQL-550x830.jpg)
![Keep Moving, Keep Shooting](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/71st90YiNwL-1-550x830.jpg)
![Fair Winds, Following Winds, and a Few Bolters: My Navy Years](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/9781646638505-550x830.jpg)
![Outside the Wire: A Novel of Murder, Love, and War](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/9781646639236-550x830.jpg)
![Sea Pay](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781646637096-550x830.jpg)
![Major Jake Fortina and the Tier-One Threat](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781646637331-550x830.jpg)
![Long Slow Target](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/61PfbTg5YYL-550x830.jpg)
![Two Good Men](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/9781646637003-550x830.jpg)
![From the Shadows: A Tribute to the 1968 West Point Graduates Who Gave Their Lives in Vietnam](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9781646636556-550x830.jpg)
![Breach](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9781646636495-550x830.jpg)
![A Hoot in Hell’s Island: The Heroic Story of World War II Dive Bomber Lt. Cmdr. Robert D. “Hoot” Gibson](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/71dF2gtPkUL-1-550x830.jpg)
![The Able Archers](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/9781646635627-550x830.jpg)
![The Girl in the Gun Club: My Time as One of the Few Good Men](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/616XS5Red8L-1-550x830.jpg)
![Betrayal in the Casbah](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/9781646635665-550x830.jpg)
![A Gathering of Men](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/61W4c587vpL-550x830.jpg)
![Fairly Smooth Operator: My Life Occasionally at the Tip of the Spear](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/71R9B0BtoL-1-550x830.jpg)
![A Rock in the Clouds: A Life Revisited](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/51yMoeAJWrL-1-550x830.jpg)
![Honor Through Sacrifice](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/71UOw-3i6BL-550x830.jpg)
![Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy: A Tank Platoon Leader in Iraq](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/71K9j8paeeL-550x830.jpg)
![Choosing the Harder Right: West Point’s 1976 Cheating Scandal](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/71KluZEhtdS-550x830.jpg)
![The SOOF](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/71VcHTlQDUS-550x830.jpg)
![Service to Civilian: A Journey Through PTSD](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/81vE2McEnJL-550x830.jpg)
![Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/71ImB3l9GgL-550x830.jpg)
![100 Days in Vietnam: A Memoir of Love, War, and Survival](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/9781646632565-550x830.jpeg)
![Working the Kill Zone: An American Mercenary in Iraq](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/61omhbEgesL-550x830.jpg)
![Growing Your Family](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/61QA7xDw3qL-550x830.jpg)
![Floater](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/61ktxrMDRGL-550x830.jpg)
![20-Year Letter: An Afghanistan Chronicle](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/61gNZntECjL-550x830.jpg)
![Traitor’s Revenge](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/71H9-bdfW7L-550x830.jpg)
![Privateers](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/71AoBjtOWgL-550x830.jpg)
![Combat Engineer: The Life and Leadership of Colonel H. Wallis Anderson, Commander of the Engineers at the Bulge and Remagen](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/71SLSM7M37L-550x830.jpg)
![Not for God and Country](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/71IYcgkQiQL-550x830.jpg)
![Wake Up, You’re Having Another Nightmare](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/71LoVEhpWFL-550x830.jpg)
![Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/71LS3MyfT9L-550x830.jpg)
![Here They Come](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/61z1er43eNL-550x830.jpg)
![Have Snakes, Need Birds](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/71CQK02gHUL-550x830.jpg)
![There and Back Again: Stories from a Combat Navy Corpsman](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/71gafKesVDL-550x830.jpg)
![This Civilian Sh*t is Hard: From the Cockpit, Cubicle, and Beyond](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/61U9Fht5XxL-550x830.jpg)
![Poisoned Jungle](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/61jpKKKozzL-550x830.jpg)
![Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot’s Combat Journal](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/71z0KZObJTL-550x830.jpg)
![Zone of Action: A JAG’s Journey Inside Operations Cobra II and Iraqi Freedom](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/71Ap0FMxbL-550x830.jpg)
![PowerPoint Ranger: My Iraq War Logs](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/715HhInugzL-550x830.jpg)
![Roster Number Five-Zero: Not for the Weak or Fainthearted](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/71cLwmeJROL-550x830.jpg)
![Twenty-Percent Soldiers: Our Secret Life in the National Guard](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/71NKHsLJKNL-550x830.jpg)
![The Wars Among the Paines](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/619KS8eFbzL-550x830.jpg)
![Division: Life on Ardennes Street](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/71XZl3noHjL-550x830.jpg)
![Country Boy, City Boy: A Journey that Ain’t Over Yet](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/country-boy-city-boy-cover-550x830.jpg)
![War Stories from the Forgotten Soldiers](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/61y7pqYk7nL-550x830.jpg)
![No Flags Did Wave](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/no-flags-did-wave-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Fire Mission! Fire Mission! A Forward Observer’s Experiences in Vietnam](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/71Pc7ZX4FiL-550x830.jpg)
![NEXT MISSION: U.S. Defense Attaché to France. A memoir from the days of “Punish France, Ignore Germany, Forgive Russia”](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/next-mission-cover-550x830.jpg)
![DEPOT TO DEPOT: A Transformational Leadership Journey from the Military to Corporate America](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/depot-to-depot-cover-1-550x830.jpg)
![Letters to Pat: A Year in the Life of a Vietnam Marine](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/71g1awVOCQL-550x830.jpg)
![War Crimes](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/war-crimes-cover-550x830.jpg)
![The Chow-hound](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/chow-hound-cover-550x830.jpg)
![General in Command: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GeneralCover-550x830.jpg)
![Taking Baghdad: Victory in Iraq with the US Marines](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/71piMIw08QL-550x830.jpg)
![Daniel Morgan: An Inexplicable Hero](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/817gbL5H2QL-550x830.jpg)
![The Handoff: Preparing the Next Generation of American Warriors](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-handoff-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Field Marshal Montgomery’s Professionalism and Its Effects on the Allied Campaigns](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/field-marshal-cover-550x830.jpg)
![D-Day Journal: The Untold Story of a U.S. Ranger on Omaha Beach](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/71AwA1FOGL-550x830.jpg)
![Hope in the Shadows of War](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/71oZHYgLdtL-550x830.jpg)
![Finding Sgt. Kent](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/71V4b2CVtZL-550x830.jpg)
![The Life of an Airborne Ranger: Donovan’s Skirmish](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cover-550x830.jpg)
![Bound by My Choices: How a death nearly broke me but the Navy saved me](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/81FUCOQ9iML-550x830.jpg)
![Aaron’s War](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AaronsWarCover-550x830.jpg)
![What I’ve Learned From: Passing on Experiences from a Life Well-Lived](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/what-ive-learned-from-ebook-550x830.jpg)
![Carl’s Story](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/71wKM51KHbL-550x830.jpg)
![Leaving War, Finding Love: A Veteran’s Transition](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2110343332-550x830.jpeg)
![Ike: The Memoir of Isom “Ike” Rigell](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/81ZnYHkdcUL-550x830.jpg)
![Sheppard and the French Rescue](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Untitled-1-550x830.jpg)
![Jackson’s Rangers: The Volunteer](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781940192987_FC-1-550x830.jpg)
![Comfort and Affliction](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781940192628_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Stump!](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781940192970_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Cry of Hope](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781940192833_FC-1-550x830.jpg)
![Of Blood & Brothers: Book Two](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781938467509-1-550x830.jpeg)
![Of Blood And Brothers: Book One](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781938467516-686x1024-550x830.jpg)
![Banners](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781938467950_FC-1-550x830.jpg)
![When June Comes](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781940192222_FC-550x830.jpg)
![William](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/william-cover-small-550x830.jpg)
![The Drone Enigma](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/small-drone.jpg)
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![The Quixotic Faction](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/smallffaction-550x830.jpg)
![While My Dad is Gone](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781633932869_cvr-1-550x830.jpg)
![Toy Soldiers](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/toy-soldiers-cover-550x830.jpg)
![The Killdeer](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781938467172_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Ironclad](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ironclad-cover-epub-550x830.jpg)
![The Bucket List Chronicles](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/bucketlist-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Three Stars and a Crow](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MCPON-cover--550x830.jpg)
![Black Flag Journals](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/black-flag-journals-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Fearful Odds: A Memoir of Vietnam and Its Aftermath](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fearful-odds-cover-550x830.jpg)
We accept submissions from agents and authors in most genres, including military-based mysteries and thrillers. One of our specialties is historical fiction based on military events, battles, or combat heroes. We also publish works of nonfiction about military service, memoirs, and books aimed at helping military veterans and their families.
We offer traditional, co-publishing, and self-publishing options. Scroll down for details.
Here is a video to honor the men and women of our Armed Forces who have given their all for the sake of our country. It was written and produced by author Tom Reilly. Thanks Tom.
Meet your publisher and executive editor.
John Köehler and Joe Coccaro talk about their passion—helping other authors achieve their dreams.
We publish two ways.
Traditional Publishing
- This option is normally only for seasoned writers (with or without an agent) with superb work and a verifiable track record of sales and marketing success. The term traditional means that the author will not pay for any development costs or fees, and will typically be offered an advance payment on royalties.
Hybrid/Co-Publishing
- This option is best for emerging writers with high-quality work desiring a professional-level publishing experience. Writers accepted into our Emerging Author Program are positioned to land a traditional deal on subsequent books. Those best suited for this program are motivated and collaborative, and receive the same level of editing, creative development and marketing as our traditional authors.
With Koehler Books as your trusted partner, we can help you…
- make your story the best it can be.
- enhance your book’s saleability.
- take advantage of coaching and learning opportunities.
- access world-class distribution and publishing services.
What our authors have to say…
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