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Available in paperback, ebook, and Kindle editions on Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIFE IS WAR BUT YOU CAN WIN.<\/em> Originally published in 1993, the book was an instant classic and was given to Vets in VA PTSD clinics across the country. Since then, there have been numberless requests for reprinting. Now, here it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author\u2019s intent for this simple book is to offer hope to anyone making his or her way through the jungle out there, as well as to the men and women who survived the war in Vietnam, and more recent wars, yet continue to live with the guilt, the loss, the shame, and the anger which comes from putting your life on the line. I believe anyone can take the survival skills we learned in Nam and put them to use back here in the World. I offer this volume as a gift to anyone who is fighting right now in the craziest war of all\u2014Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM READERS
\u201cI am working at the PTSD inpatient unit at the VA hospital in Boise. Every guy who
goes through the 6-week program gets a copy of your book! LIFE IS WAR helps bridge
the awful gap between the teenager in the black hole of the Vietnam jungle, and the adult
civilian today. Read it!\u201d \u2013 Linda Reinberg, Ph.D., Author of In the Field: Language of
the Vietnam War.
\u201cI am writing to convey how much pleasure I derived from reading your book. I am
familiar with several of the \u2018preachy books\u2019 out there. By no means do they compare to
yours. Yours was the first to express how we\u2019re all in this together.\u201d \u2013 Clement J, Ross,
Jr. Former Army Airborne Ranger
\u201cProfessionals can learn something from this little book and can recommend it to help
guide the survival of combat veterans.\u201d
\u2013 Arthur L. Arnold, DVA Outpatient Clinic, Superior, WI
\u201cA little treasure.\u201d \u2013 Mary Lou Block, host of \u201cWoman to Woman\u201d a nationally
syndicated radio program.
\u201cA pithy little book of inspiration and sustenance \u2013 gutsy and sometimes as grisly as war
itself.\u201d \u2013 Mike Maza, The Dallas Morning News.
\u201cTony Anthony\u2019s account of what he learned under fire inspires us all to take control of
our lives, to move forward with greater awareness and courage.\u201d \u2013 John Gray, Ph.D.,
Author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
\u201cI know that LIFE IS WAR will help a lot of people.\u201d \u2013 John Hollenhorst, Network News
Anchor, Salt Lake City, UT
\u201cLIFE IS WAR is full of growth and understanding. It\u2019s full of acceptance but not
excuses.\u201d \u2013 Grace Landon, EFO Group
\u201cI\u2019m 15 years old and I guess I\u2019m writing because I\u2019m scared. Your book has helped me a
lot. Thank you for offering hope.\u201d \u2013 Meaghan Holland (15), Student, Baltimore, MD
\u201cWhat a gift\u2026 the words, sketches, the intention, the touch of the soul.\u201d
\u2013 Jeremy Jones, Wyndmoor, PA
\u201cFor all the \u2018newbies\u2019 I meet daily, I give them the book. It works.\u201d \u2013 Jeffry L. Junkins,
La Jolla, CA
\u201cA great book. I use many of your principles in business.\u201d\u2013 Harvey Auger, President
PHH Homequity, A Fortune 500 Corporation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy wife, employed with the V.A. in the Women\u2019s Sexual Trauma Unit, brought home
your book LIFE IS WAR. I have pretty much led my life along the path you write of in
your book.\u201d \u2013 David L. Cornwell, Former Member of Congress, Co-founder of the
Vietnam Veterans Caucus, first Vietnam combat veteran to serve on the Veterans Affairs
Committee, member of the President\u2019s Vietnam Veterans Policy Group. Indianapolis, IN
\u201cEnjoyed your book! I use it in our PTSD workshops.\u201d \u2013 Steven A. Janke, Point Man
International Ministries, Garfield, NJ
\u201cAs a three-tour vet who experienced some deep mental and emotional problems, all now
behind me, I find your book \u201cright on target.\u201d \u2013 Stanley \u201cPete\u201d Meston, Jupiter FL
Of everything I have read about Vietnam, nothing hit home more than what you said and
how you phrased it.\u201d \u2013 Daniel L. Hobart, Moriva, NY
\u201cA lovely book, really powerful and helpful in a lot of ways.\u201d \u2013 Anya Rosen, Seattle, WA
\u201cSo many of us have been wrestling with our demons in one kind of recovery or another.
We admire your courage in discussing your issues and writing about them! It really is
supportive to the rest of us who are dealing with our \u2018stuff.\u2019 \u201d \u2013 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas
Gunne, New Haven, CT
\u201cTony Anthony shows how personal lessons learned during war can be keys to success
throughout life. His lean prose and spare line drawings deliver a message of hope. This
book is invaluable in my work, counseling service members and their families. \u2013 Francis
Harriman, M.A., Marriage and Family Therapist
\u201cI was at my end when someone gifted me with your book. Now the fight is on again. I
gave up, got drunk and was going to end it. Then your \u2018book. Damn man! I was lost, but I
changed my thinking and am again moving on. I will read your book over and over and
over\u2026\u201d \u2013 Michael Schaefer
\u201cI come from a small town in Ohio where the word Nam is not spoken. Well, I guess I
held Nam inside me long enough. I loved the book and pics too. Keep doing what you do,
more vets like me are out there waiting for that parade without the rain.\u201d \u2013 Michael T.
Fetter, Lockland, OH
\u201cYou walk the point with Tony Anthony, and suddenly you can see your life with the cold
chiseled clarity that\u2019s the only visual when you are on the edge of things. He\u2019s been
twenty-six years getting back from the Nam, and now that he\u2019s returned, he realizes that
we are all \u2018in country.\u2019 \u201d \u2013Robert Haydon Jones, USMC Retired
\u201cYour book added much-needed inspiration to my journey of recovery. Semper Fi!\u201d\u2013
Larry Turner, Formerly1 st Marine, Division, Martinsburg, WV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThank you for writing LIFE IS WAR!\u201d \u2013 Thomas N. \u201cTommy\u201d Bills, formerly 3 rd Marine
Division, North Palm Beach, FL
\u201cI picked up your book and began scanning it. I called Ken over and said, \u2018Ken you have
got to see this book.\u2019 He began reading it and wept. Thank you, Tony for entering our
lives.\u201d \u2013 Diana Spencer, Pascagoula, MS
\u201cThanks for putting in print many of my own thoughts!\u201d \u2013 Ken Fisher, Little Rock, AR
\u201cA classic!\u201d \u2013 William Tailyor, Colonel, Royal British Marines, Retired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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