Books
Leaving the Wire: An Infantryman’s Iraq
A narrative memoir of a year in the early Iraq War through a grunt’s eyes.
Essay in Retire the Colors: Veterans and Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan
Short Fiction
“Animals” – Published November 2014 in As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 1
“Stories” – Published November 2014 in As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 1
“Green Eyes” – Published April 2015 in The Blue Falcon Review, Vol. 2
“The Great White Hunter” – Published October 2015 in O-Dark-Thirty.
“Currents” – Published June 2021 in The Wrath-Bearing Tree
“The Bus Driver“ – Published July 2021 in Wilderness House Literary Review, Vol. 16, No. 2
“Concourses“ – Published September 2021 in The Line: Veterans Literary Review
“Red Mittens“ – Published December 2021 in Line of Advance Journal
“Known Unknowns“ – Published September 2022 in Line of Advance Journal
“A Dark Smudge“ – Published November 2022 in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 11
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Nonfiction
“‘A Choice Body of Men’: An Overview of the Continental Army on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1783” – Published May 2021 in The Journal of the American Revolution
“Book Review: David Ervin on Jerad Alexander’s Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War“ – Published November 2021 in The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Creative Nonfiction
“The Looking Glass“ – published 2014 in Blue Nostalgia: A Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth, Vol. 1
Web Pieces
“Giving A Voice to the Unspeakable: A Chat with Joseph Galloway”
“What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Thank You for Your Service'”
“Living With Killing: Lifting the Weight of Moral Injury”
“The Spirit of the Infantry: Battle Fatigue in the Second World War“
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David P. Ervin 