Complex sentence: Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a 618 page nonfiction book written by Robert M. Gates, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and published in January, 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Split into simpler sentences: Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a 618 page nonfiction book written by Robert M. Gates, a former U.S. Secretary of Defense. The was published in January, 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf.