American Marines

The fighting prowess of United States Marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps' humble beginnings and what it achieved during the early years of the American Revolution. That oversight is fully rectified by Jason Bohm's eye-opening Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777.

Finding Faith was written by USA Today Bestselling Author Reana Malori... Cooper Branson wasn't ready to move on. His life was just fine the way it was and no one could make him change. At least, not willingly. He wore his Widower badge with honor and forced himself to live his life only for his daughter, Madison. Falling for his attractive neighbor was not in the cards for him. It didn't matter that she was the first person he thought of in the morning, or the last voice he needed to hear before falling asleep at night. Loving someone and running the risk of losing them again was not a ...

~ Sometimes good and evil must coexist to bring about the reckoning. ~ Ebony - I've never begged for anything. Until the day I begged him to save my life. Fear was not a word I used. Failure had never been an option. Even as life threw me curveballs on a regular basis, I powered through. My job as a police officer drove me to do better, be better than anyone else, and to protect those who needed my help. My position as President of the Fairfax Chapter of Lady Guardians instilled a sense of sisterhood and passion for my community. I’m proud of the person I’ve become and have no regrets ...

With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the U.S. military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Delivering Destruction is the first detailed study of American triphibious (land, sea, and air) firepower coordination in the Pacific War. In describing the Amphibious Corps' development of fire coordination teams and tactics in the Central Pacific, Hemler underlines the importance of wartime adaptation, battlefield coordination, and the primacy of the human element in naval combat.

Everything good must come to an end... but can he get her back? Lucy I adored this man, and he put a ring on it! I couldn’t believe my luck. My man meant so much to me and we were building a life together. We would have a baby and life would be perfect. Forever. Then I saw some things that he couldn’t take back. What he did was unforgivable. I left before he returned home from deployment, and no-one knew where I went. Zac I loved that woman more than anything in my life. She was mine and I was hers. When I found she had left, it tore me apart. I couldn’t take it. When I thought it was...

Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never been accepted as a “real” sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely complex: Roller derby has always been coed.

Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. There was just one clue to his dad’s experience as a US Marine - a portrait with a close friend that hung permanently in their home. In The Dead Drink First, Dale, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recounts his 18-year quest to find and repatriate the missing remains of his dad’s buddy, Herman Walter Mulligan, 73 years after he was killed in action.

As a rare, long-range empath, Jack was good at two things: talking to whales and telling stories to kids, neither of which did him much good in space. Lunar Intelligence agreed to overlook a murder charge in exchange for his talent for tracking thinking creatures at great distances, perfect for an assassin. He didn’t fit in the military until an interstellar conflict loomed between Humans and the Phibs, amphibious aliens who steal resources and eat children. Jack volunteered to recruit the only Earth creatures capable of defending colony-world oceans against these boogey men, the orcas. ...

To Be American: The Resurrection of the American Soul What if America is not just a country — but a calling? In a time of cultural cowardice, spiritual compromise, and institutional decay, To Be American arrives like a war trumpet in a silent chapel. Written in the fierce, poetic voice of a U.S. Marine, husband, father, and sacred rebel, this book is not a policy manual. It is not just calling out liberal idiocy, nor a conservative punditry dressed in camouflage. It is patriotic scripture for a people who remember — and refuse to kneel. Eric Infanti, a warrior-philosopher forged in the ...

ATTENTION Readers: This book has been reworked and published as a NEW Book (FALLEN) in a NEW Series (Redemption Series). ____________________________________________________________________________________________ We all have two lives. Jimmy-Mack’s second began the moment he realized he only had one. In the remote mountains of North Carolina, Mack’s new found love for a Cherokee Native woman exposes a tribal secret and an Indian burial ground holding an ancient Viking treasure wrapped in a supernatural mystery so deep its unraveling rewrites the North American history books, toppling a...

James A. Warren's battle-driven history shows how this elite culture has produced the best warriors in the country, through six decades, several open wars, and many smaller interventions. From their heroic performance in the Pacific War, against Japanese troops on god-forsaken islands, to their "tip-of-the-lance" leadership in key operations in the two Gulf Wars, the Marines have proven again and again that elite men with elite training are worth entire armies.

Marine. Writer. Historian... Slave. Calder Wulf is something of a jack of all trades, but that's not how his life started out. As a boy, Calder's father wanted nothing more than to toughen him up. A good venture on the high seas as a cabin boy would be a remedy for thin skin, unless that trek ended prematurely at the hands of Barbary pirates. Years in slavery and forced to fight, Calder grows up in the savage world of 18th century Algiers. When he's finally able to achieve his freedom, the boy finds that he's still a slave to his addiction. But when combat is both the solution and the ...

The NUMBER 1 Amazon bestselling Sam Tilson COLD SECRETS series begins... Old secrets never die - and everyone’s racing to unearth them. Dive into the pulse-pounding world of Sam Tilson, a former British Special Boat Service operative recruited into MI5’s Office of Inconclusive Covert Enquiries (ICE). Tilson’s routine desk job turns perilous when he’s dispatched to retrieve the secret diaries of a deceased diplomat in the unforgiving terrain of Norway. What starts as a straightforward mission quickly spirals into a high-stakes chase, with the Norwegian Police, Russian Military ...

CRIMSON STRIKE is a gripping modern techno-thriller where past and future collide in a high-stakes battle for control of Vietnam. As a Chinese invasion force crosses the northern border into Vietnam, U.S. Marine Captain Jack Monroe and Vietnamese Captain Nguyen Bao hold the line at Lang Son. Bao, a seasoned officer and son of an NVA hero, is determined to protect his homeland. Monroe, leading an elite team of Raiders, fights alongside him, forging an unlikely brotherhood in the chaos of war. In the past they would have been blood enemies, but now they are allies. While tanks thunder through...

When an American Diplomat is killed in Cyprus, Ben Huntley uncovers a terrorist threat to America and a Mossad agent willing to betray Israel to further the peace process. Huntley must overcome his Gulf War demons, warm to his new partner, Artemis Nelson and get a second chance at life. The manhunt leads to Morocco and the Canary Islands where a landslide triggers the apocalypse that may destroy America. The threat is real; the question is when it will occur.

I admit it: I, the aptly named April Fu, once ruined my best friend’s brother’s entire music career with my “helpful” advice, but I didn’t mean it like that. Honest, I thought I was saving Jex from a life of questionable career choices. That’s kind of what I do: I’m an overachieving marketing consultant with boundary issues, and my apartment is craving some peace and quiet—nothing like minding my own business to keep my life drama-free. Jex Wise needs to forgive and forget. Have you seen how gorgeous he got? Annoyingly hot and unfairly charming. The word “revenge” ...

Tenacity chronicles the evolution of entrepreneur Ron Coury, a major business figure in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the surrounding Western states. As Coury, a former US Marine, climbed the ladder toward his success, he faced a barrage of constraints, including political and police corruption, bribery, coercion, and even death threats. Coury details the struggles he faced and the losses he endured in this eye-opening look behind the curtain of business during the “good ol’ boy” days of Southern Nevada.

A woman in danger. A Marine sent to protect her. Enrique From the moment I saw Maddie Weeks, I was smitten. We could've had a great love affair, except for three little things: 1. It was my job to protect her. 2. She was already married. 3. I could never marry. Then her jerk of a husband blew up. Literally. And our low key surveillance was kicked up a notch. We needed an inside man. Naturally, I took one for the team and assigned myself that role. My cover? Obviously, we'll have to be married. Fake married. Too bad I really love her.

Criminal Investigator Braylon Wexler has arrived in Hilton Head Island to dutifully serve his country on Paris Island Military base. As soon as he arrives the calm he's been longing for is pleasantly shattered by the tantalizing stormy presence of Sandella Summers. She is an unexpected surprise that stirs a hot longing in him, like a hot poker through blazing coals.