I have had two books as author and two as co-author published over the last twenty years. These are all of a German military theme. A writer needs to map it out beforehand, and be absolutely clear what the book is going to say from start to finish. Do a synopsis and stick to it.
I have had one book rejected "for being too short" (40,000 words) and had no illustrations. But sometimes a book in this military line is rejected, as I suspect in this case, because it reports something which is true, changes history but is better not generally known.
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