John Kerry’s 1971 anti-war book The New Soldier, featuring the infamous cover photo of an upside-down American flag, is now available online in PDF form for free downloading.

Since its publication in 1971, John Kerry’s book The New Soldier has acquired almost legendary status. Rumors abound of political operatives scrambling to locate and suppress stray copies during Kerry’s House campaign in 1972. Copies now sell on eBay for hundreds of dollars.

John F. Kerry has made his Vietnam service the cornerstone of his campaign for President. But he has said virtually nothing about what he did when he came home. His activities and statements at the time painted our veterans with an undeserved bloody brush. Many believe, and statements by the North Vietnamese confirm, that the activities of John Kerry, Jane Fonda and others actually prolonged the war, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of our soldiers, and thousands of Vietnamese.

Before you decide how to vote in the forthcoming election, we urge everyone to consider all the information available. We strongly believe the contents of this book are of great importance in the forthcoming Presidential election and deserve to be widely distributed. We created this website at freekerrybook.org where anyone can read, print, forward or save a copy of the book to a PC absolutely free. No registration or sign-on is required, and no ads appear on the site.