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The war in Vietnam is over. Yet the descendants of those who fought there are pulled into a new war - a war in a country whose name has come to mean unending conflict, unending brutality, and unending killing: Afghanistan. Into this tortured land flies the civilian pilot Max Hoffman. Out of luck and out of money, he is easy prey to the CIA, who recruits him to join its hidden war. Hoffman soon discovers the American intelligence officers have a hidden agenda - personal gain and profit at any cost.

Vietnam, 1970. A US Navy aircraft narrowly avoids being shot down by a cloud of missiles launched from a remote patch of jungle, south of Haiphong, North Vietnam. In South Vietnam, the Vietcong kidnaps Nguyen Huy Quan, the nephew of the President of South Vietnam. Two unrelated events. Except they are not unrelated. A bored and disinterested intelligence officer has filed away the note about the strange missile launch, marked ‘no further action.’ It remains unread, until President Thieu’s wife, nicknamed ‘The Dragon Lady,’ demands action to get her nephew back from the North. At ...

They are the best of the best, the Navy SEALs. The world's most elite fighting force. A vital kill-mission inside Afghanistan uncovers an unexpected and deadly plot to use a nuclear weapon. A weapon that could cost thousands of American lives. Once more, the Navy SEALs are called into action. Bravo Platoon, SEAL Team 7, parachutes into action. Yet a question mark hangs over Chief Petty Officer Kyle Nolan.

During World War II, the Waffen-SS officer who set Vietnam on fire in Devil's Guard - The Real Story began his startling military career in the Russian slaughterhouse of the Eastern Front. It is February 1943 in the snowy wastes around Kharkov. Stalingrad has fallen and a resurgent Soviet army is pushing the German forces back. The newly commissioned officer takes up his posting with Deutschland Regiment, SS Division Das Reich, part of von Manstein's Army Group South.

A tragic death during training sends Sean Nolan on a tortuous path that will lead him to the brutal and unforgiving jungles of Vietnam looking for vengeance. As an enlisted man in Vietnam, he quickly discovers he has a strong affinity for war. He is singled out as a ruthless killer, a suitable candidate for Mike Force, and promoted, in time to lead a vital mission. The Vietcong have a new man they call the ‘Magician.’ Skilled at devising clever and fiendish booby traps that have killed hundreds of American and ARVN soldiers. Nolan’s orders are simple. Find him. Kill him. Special Ops ...

Millions have died trying to shatter the enemy fortifications, and Private Callahan and his comrades are ordered to try again. But this time they have something new. Lines of heavy tanks, their engines revving, and the sky overhead filled with squadrons of fighter aircraft. Their task is to assault an impregnable fortified hilltop, manned by thousands of battle-hardened German soldiers, determined to contest every yard of ground.

America's greatest military gamble of World War Two, the invasion of France. This is the background for an epic novel of two tanks. The crewmen of the Sherman M4 are an ill-assorted bunch of squabbling Americans, forced to swallow their differences in order to survive. The German Tiger is manned by fanatical young Nazis, Hitler Youth, and led by a tough veteran of the bitter war on the Eastern Front.

After the bloody struggle for Kharkov, the SS Officer who was later to pursue a brutal and bloody career in the jungles of Vietnam has another battle to face. Kursk, the name that has come to symbolize the epic showdown between German and Russian armor, the greatest tank battle in history. The story begins before the battle when the commanders of both sides are fighting an intelligence war. Sent on a mission behind the lines into the heavily defended Kursk salient, Obersturmfuhrer Jurgen Hoffman and his platoon has to fight their way back to their own lines.

Vietnam, October 1966. ANZAC and US forces have secured Route 15 running through the heart of Phuc Tuy Province. Now at full strength the ANZAC 5th Battalion take the fight to the enemy in a grand, aggressive sweep. Their mission to locate and destroy Viet Cong bases and infrastructure within the Nui Thi Vai Mountains. They’ve been in this area before, but never in sufficient numbers to bring the enemy to bear.

Infantry Lieutenant Scott Winters believes his life is in danger after he blew the whistle on a military cover-up that is costing the lives of American soldiers. He needs help, and he contacts former U.S. Navy SEAL Ernie Barrett and Brit SAS operator Logan. They discover a high-level conspiracy is in place. The cover-up could only have been ordered by men who wield immense power inside the Pentagon, and inside the government. Men determined to prevent the truth from coming out at all costs. It is the start of a hunt for the truth. Logan finds he is up against an enemy with immense power. ...

March 1945. The Allies are poised to cross the Rhine, the final obstacle that stands in the way of the complete defeat of Nazi Germany. Yet the enemy is not finished. Adolf Hitler is still firmly entrenched in his bunker deep beneath the streets of Berlin. Still exhorting his war-weary, battered troops to shed more blood to further his insane belief in the final. His men respond with ever-increasing ingenuity. Inventing crazy, hopeless ‘wonder weapons.’ Some not so crazy. Some could deliver a sledgehammer blow to Eisenhower’s forces from which they will be unable to recover. Newly ...

Former SAS Trooper Logan is part-owner of a gun store on the outskirts of Los Angeles. After some difficult times, things are working out for him and his partner, Freya Olsen. But still not great. Money is tight, and they need to bring in more trade. Not the kind of trade like the guy who enters the store, shortly after a murderous Islamic attack on a nearby synagogue. The would-be customer, an Arab, asks Logan to repair an illegal malfunctioning M-60. Like one that was used in the recent attack, probably obtained illegally from a US armory. Under the law, he must refuse. A refusal that ...

Haunted by guilt, a soldier-turned-priest is drawn back into war, forced to confront evil with ruthless violence. Sean Nolan had his life mapped out, working toward a commission in the US Army. Until he blames himself for a friend’s death. Desperate to make amends, he abandons his military dreams for a career that could not be more different. He becomes a priest. His vocation ends suddenly when an inner drive for justice compels him to kill a man guilty of rape and murder. Driven again by guilt, Nolan enlists in the US Army as penance, serving two tours in Vietnam. Though he proves ...

This is the third book in Eric Meyer's series about the exploits of a group of former Waffen-SS officers who engage the enemy in the never-ending slaughter in Vietnam. It's 1968, the fighting escalates, the body count mounts, and the fighter-bombers and gunships daily prowl the skies in the relentless hunt for their elusive enemy.

January 1945. The first day of the New Year. The German offensive in the Ardennes Forest is over, ending in defeat for the Nazis. American, British, and French troops are ready to begin the final assault on the Third Reich. The Nazis appear to be as good as beaten. Yet they have more surprises up their sleeve, and the nature of the fighting is about to change. The Nazis have prepared a series of attacks, one of them calculated to deliver a hammer blow to the Allies from which they will be unable to recover. Second Lieutenant Murphy, in command of 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, is enjoying a ...

Early May 1945. Murphy’s platoon engages in one last battle against an enemy determined to keep fighting to the bitter end. The men are reluctant to risk their lives so close to the end, but they are US Army Rangers. Not prepared to give ground to a bunch of unrepentant Nazis. They hit the Nazis hard and inflict so many casualties they have no choice but to drop their weapons, throw up their hands and surrender. It is over. Yet it is not over. An SS scientist is on the run. Gottfried Neumann has committed murder on an industrial scale inside the Treblinka death camp. The victims were ...

Life is short and justice a rare commodity in the harsh wastelands of Afghanistan. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Rafe Stoner is about to encounter this cruel truth the hard way. An operation goes tragically wrong, and a Taliban sniper team ambushes a UNHCR ambulance. One of the dead is the woman with whom he intended to start a new life. Stoner turns his back on civilization, and begins a new career as a gun-for-hire in the bitter land ruled by the bomb and the bullet.

Rafe Stoner, a former Navy SEAL, leads a cruel existence as a gun for hire in Afghanistan. After the brutal killing of his fiancée, he vowed a brutal revenge. A revenge that littered the landscape with the bodies of those responsible. Now he learns his work is not over. A wealthy, young Afghan woman holds the key to the identity of the Taliban commander who ordered the murder. Stoner sets out with his ally, Greg Blum, to hunt down the last of the guilty men.

Afghanistan is a land ripped apart by unending warfare. Inside this seething cauldron of violence, Rafe Stoner, a former Navy SEAL, maintains a precarious existence. His business, selling surplus machinery, is a cover for his real work. Stoner is a gun for hire, and his services are in constant demand.

December 1944. US and British troops are racing toward the German border, taking the battle into the heart of Hitler’s Reich. The Allied commanders are supremely confident, the enemy has little left with which to fight. Most of their troops and armor are deployed on the Eastern Front, leaving those facing Eisenhower’s armies with no choice but to flee. Yet against all odds, they refuse to flee. And against all odds, incredibly, they launch a counteroffensive, aimed like a spear at the vital Channel port of Antwerp. Not everyone is surprised. Newly promoted Lieutenant Jack Murphy has ...