Ex tenebris, scripsi.
GREGORY CLYDE
Veteran. Award-Winning Writer. Storyteller.
When The Smoke Lifts: Infantry Principles for Life & Legacy
SIGNED DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR
THE DEBUT BOOK
WHEN THE SMOKE LIFTS
Infantry Principles for Life & Legacy
Some lessons are learned only after the smoke clears.
When the Smoke Lifts draws on the hard-earned principles of infantry service to explore what remains when the mission ends: responsibility, endurance, fatherhood, leadership, loss, and legacy.
Written by U.S. Army combat veteran Gregory Clyde, the book moves beyond the battlefield to examine how the principles forged under pressure can shape the lives we build afterward.
Paperback · Hardcover · Signed Copies Available
AWARD-WINNING FICTION
THE DISTANCE TO FALLUJAH
First Place · Narrative Magazine Spring 2026 Story Contest
During the opening days of the Iraq War, a young American infantryman travels north toward Fallujah on a mission that collapses the distance between preparation and consequence. The Distance to Fallujah is a story about survival, memory, and the moments that continue unfolding long after the shooting stops.
STORIES FORGED FROM EXPERIENCE
Gregory Clyde is a U.S. Army combat veteran and writer whose work explores service, memory, responsibility, and the consequences that remain long after conflict ends.
Drawing on military service and decades of experience in security and leadership, his writing examines the weight people carry forward—and what experience asks of them afterward.
ON THE HORIZON
Forthcoming projects include Defensible Security and From Spears to Satellites.
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