Military Moral

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed—a short, inspirational book about the qualities of true, everyday heroes. The Hero Code is Admiral McRaven's ringing tribute to the real, everyday heroes he's met over the years, from...

The brief was correct. Three men are still dead. Major Frank Cable flies the A-10 Warthog — the ugliest, slowest, most lethal close air support aircraft in the American arsenal. Staff Sergeant David Reyes controls fires from the ground, guiding the aircraft to its targets through a nine-line radio brief that leaves no room for error. Their only connection is a radio frequency. Their only shared language is the protocol. Over nineteen days in the Syrian desert, Cable and Reyes execute the mission with the precision the system demands. The preflight is correct. The nine-line is correct. The...

Vietnam, 1968. A hilltop in the Central Highlands. A gun crew of six. PFC Jack Lowe arrives at Firebase Blackjack with black boots and orders assigning him to Gun Two — an M102 howitzer crewed by men who do not look at him, do not welcome him, and do not explain the rules. The section chief gives him a title and a prohibition: You're Number Three. Don't touch anything until I tell you to touch it. Over twelve months, Lowe learns the gun. He learns the weight of a thirty-three-pound shell carried ten meters in the dark. He learns the difference between HE and illumination by feel. He ...

Eight Navy SEALs. Five days on a hostile island. Forty mines that will close the Strait of Hormuz. One man who refuses to destroy them — because the children sleeping above the mines are the reason he can't press the button, and the sailors who'll die in the strait are the reason he must. Chief Mercer has a targeting laser pointed at a fishing village on Larak Island. Beneath the village: forty Iranian mines that will shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Command wants him to mark the target. The airstrike is fourteen minutes away. There's a family inside the house. He puts down ...

They were promised a three-day war. A victory parade in Kyiv. Flowers thrown at the feet of liberators. But for the men of the 64-kilometer-long convoy, the road to glory has become a frozen river of mud and steel. For Captain Dmitri Volkov, a logistics officer, the war is not a battle of heroes, but a grim equation of dwindling fuel, failing equipment, and timetables that have become a grotesque joke. His logbook, once a sanctuary of order, is now the meticulous record of a slow, grinding descent into hell. As days bleed into weeks, the Zampolit’s patriotic speeches fade into the howl of...

The ice that saved them is now killing them.When a Chinese naval task force's reactor begins venting radiation across Victoria Strait, Admiral Chen Weiming faces an impossible choice: stay aboard the dying ships and watch his people die slowly, or order 2,600 sailors and marines to walk 400 nautical miles across the Arctic—in December—with tropical gear and dwindling supplies.No rescue is coming. Beijing has gone silent. The Canadians are offering help, but Chen's orders forbid him from accepting it. And somewhere between his fleet and salvation, an isolated platoon has just triggered a...

In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war, Burleigh presents listeners with a fresh and powerful perspective on a conflict that continues to shape world politics.

On the water world Apollo, every island fights its own shadow war. The Patton Armory stands at the center of them all. When fourteen-year-old Mark Alexander inherits the empire, the shadows come for him. Follow the Adventures of Mark Alexander: The Misbegotten Empire (Book 1) Misbegotten Legacy (Book 2) Misbegotten Promise (Book 3) The Misbegotten Fortune (Book 4)

Cole came home from the war. He has not come back. He doesn't sleep. He leaves restaurants without warning. He checks every exit in every room he enters. He stands at the kitchen window at three a.m. staring at a parking lot like he's still on watch. When his girlfriend asks how he is, he says fine. He says it every time. He means something else. Anna has been waiting for thirteen months. She kept the apartment. She paid the rent. She imagined the homecoming. The person who walked off the plane is not the person who left. He will not talk. He will not stay. He wakes up swinging in the dark....

The sun won't rise for forty days. Neither side can wait that long. December 2045. A thousand Chinese Marines are slowly freezing to death in ships never meant to survive an Arctic winter. Their government has declared the mission a success. Their Admiral knows better. And the men who could rescue them have been ordered to treat them as a threat. As polar night descends on Victoria Strait, a British intelligence officer pieces together what the Americans already know but won't share. A Canadian sergeant prepares her section for a tactical situation she doesn't understand. And deep in the ...

After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war - the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a "moral injury" - a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America with a fellow veteran. Listeners walk with these men as they meet other veterans, Native American healers, and spiritual teachers.

“Daigle’s historical portrayal of war‑torn Vietnam is particularly vivid and compelling.” - BlueInk Review "A thoughtful, action-filled adventure rife with wartime double-dealing." - Kirkus Review Vietnam, 1969: a SEAL's jungle discovery turns a routine mission into a lifelong vow. Navy SEAL scout Mike McCall discovers a fallen temple and swears to protect the relics hidden there. Years later, that promise drags him back into the war he thought he'd left behind. Mike is recruited by Joe Kane's private security firm after discharge—ex-military talent doing corporate work in ...

A war thriller book set in Rotterdam during World War I. In "The War Spy," Desmond Okewood—a British officer on leave—arrives in Rotterdam amidst the chaos of World War I, driven by an urgent mission: to find his missing brother, Henry. Suspected of espionage activities in enemy territory, Henry's fate intertwines with a deadly game of secrets and deceit that Desmond must navigate through. As he grapples with memories of their shared childhood and the traumas of war, his quest becomes increasingly perilous, culminating in the shocking discovery of a dead man that forces Desmond into a ...

Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free love, draft notices, the Vietnam War, and a country deeply divided, and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography.

What really happened to the billions of dollars worth of gold seized by Nazi Germany? What role did the Swiss government play and what are the implications of neutrality during wartime? The author addresses these questions, presents the case for and against Switzerland, and applies the lessons learned from World War II to the broader issue of companies - and countries - profiting during wartime.

In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as...

Two soldiers debate what it means to love and live on a battlefield A short, dark, and dystopic vignette of war throughout the ages. If you ever supported any war, you’ll get the message. You won’t feel good. The tale shows what we have become, what we are living, and where we may be going

She thought she understood the game. Then the true players revealed themselves. Captain Linda Eccles and Admiral Philip Litton travel to the Curanian homeworld on a mission built on deception, convincing a ruthless alien ruler that humanity has developed technology powerful enough to stop him. But when they arrive, everything they believed collapses. Then everything changes. The ship she stole? Never hers to take. The technology she controlled? It was controlling her. The mission she planned? Worthless, the Supreme Kold no longer wants war. Someone else has been watching from the shadows. ...

“We’re going into harm’s way at full speed!” The Misbegotten Empire Saga continues as Mark Alexander searches for his lost friends in the middle of a civil war, where his worst enemies may be his best hope. He's no longer satisfied with survival, but what will victory cost him? Misbegotten Promise is Book 3 of the Misbegotten Empire Series, a Sci-Fi Thriller that explores the collision of identity, technology, and morality in a world where loyalty is currency and redemption comes too late.

Book 2 of the Linda Eccles Series, where trust is the mission and understanding is survival. Three years ago, she barely survived humanity’s first contact with alien life. Now they’re asking her to go back. After The Chance Encounter, Linda Eccles lost everything: her command, her career, her future. Now she pilots a short-range freighter, trying to forget. She can't. The alien buoy from her first encounter has revealed its secrets: the Kracks were never finished with humanity. Admiral Philip Litton returns with an impossible offer. Earth Defense has decoded enough to know communication...