Charles Sheehan-Miles
Author of The Thompson Sisters and America's Future series
Prayer at Rumayla Chapter One
Posted on August 14, 2014 by Charles Miles
Purchase links: Kindle | Nook | iBooks | Google Play | Kobo | Smashwords | Chapters | Thalia The explosion to our front throws me against the back of the hatch, pain shooting up my side. I gasp, dropping the belt of three-inch long bullets to the floor of the turret. They land with a, Read More
Returning Home from Iraq: Interview with NPR’s All Things Considered
Posted on November 11, 2009 by Charles Miles
Veterans’ Voices: Returning Home From The Gulf War Charles Sheehan-Miles was a tank loader in the Gulf War, engaged in combat in the 24th Division. He had a hard time coming back to civilian life. How do you answer, he wonders, when someone asks, “How was it?” Sheehan-Miles wrote a fictionalized account of his, Read More
Prayer at Rumayla selected as book of the month
Posted on May 31, 2007 by Charles Miles
The Podler Book Review today selected Prayer at Rumayla as the book of the month! Thank you!
Prayer at Rumayla earns spectacular review
Posted on May 7, 2007 by Charles Miles
A few weeks ago I submitted Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War for review to the Podler, a book review blog. Last night the review came back, and it was far better than I could have anticipated. Here’s the review, and I want to send my thanks over to the Podler for the, Read More
Author Takes Fresh Look at Persian Gulf War
Posted on September 29, 2002 by Charles Miles
by BRIAN TROMPETER Staff Writer The Persian Gulf War seemed like a piece of cake to those who watched it on CNN. The ground war lasted merely 100 hours, U.S. forces lost only 299 of nearly 468,000 deployed troops and Iraqi soldiers surrendered in droves. Sheehan-Miles, 30, a soft-spoken Vienna area resident, wrote a, Read More
New book sheds light on war
Posted on February 8, 2002 by Charles Miles
By Jeffrey Horton Prince George’s Sentinel, Friday, February 8, 2002 Never before have I read a novel that speaks with such straight forward honesty as Charles Sheehan-Miles’ new book, Prayer at Rumayla. Sheehan-Miles finally shows America an accurate glimpse of the fact that the Gulf War was actually a war. Forget all your memories, Read More
War novel gives eerie insight to real thing
Posted on December 21, 2001 by Charles Miles
Prayer at Rumayla,” by Charles Sheehan-Miles. Xlibris Corp. 222 pages. $21.99. By JOHN HANCHETTE Gannett News Service, Friday, December 21, 2001 A new war novel – a bleak and disturbing remembrance of a past conflict that could contain intimations of the near future – has sprung up on an Internet publishing web site. When, Read More
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