Combat Mission

Civilization is fighting to survive tragic times. On Spiritual Combat is a spiritual warfare guide for military members, law enforcement officers, first responders, and all sheepdogs. It prepares their hearts and minds for battle, teaching them to identify, understand, and fight evil forces

John Comer kept a journal of the 25 missions he flew in 1943, when the casualty rate on his base was close to 80 percent. His book is handwritten history, recorded within hours after the battles occurred. Comer vividly creates his experiences as top-turret gunner/flight engineer in a B-17 squadron that was thrown against the best pilots the Luftwaffe could offer.

Some monsters wear tactical gear. Others wear fur. Tony Ward retreated to the freezing peaks of the Beartooth Mountains to escape his grief. Operating as a solitary lookout, he wanted nothing more than to be left alone with the biting wind and the silent snow. His isolation shatters when a dying elk leads him to tracks far too massive to belong to any known animal. Then the storm hits. Trapped in a sudden, brutal blizzard, Tony discovers he is not the only one tracking the beast. A ruthless paramilitary team led by the cold-blooded Commander Reed has descended on the mountain. They are ...

A beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Devotion, now a major motion picture Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its...

Listeners with an interest in crime scene investigation will be gripped as a crack team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents investigates crime scenes around the world.

The 1972 Easter Offensive was a four-prong attack into South Vietnam. An Loc astride Highway 13 from Cambodia to Saigon was a strategic target from the North Vietnamese Army. A handful of US Army Advisors were determined to deny this prize to the North Vietnamese Army that came at them in the form of three divisions. Rallying the South Vietnamese defenders, they would curtail all attempts to seize this strategically important town. The Battle of An Loc presents the actions of the battle in the sequence they occurred and credits those that fought there. The conversations are what would have ...

""An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death."" —Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News...

Nine ships destroyed in a shared transit lane. Two hundred and fourteen dead. Every weapon signature reads Federation. The convoy is still burning when a Combine patrol finds it. No distress calls, no escape pods, no survivors. The drive signatures are Federation Navy, the hull fragments are Federation composite, and the strike was fast enough and thorough enough that nobody aboard nine ships got a beacon away. That is not a skirmish on a contested border. That is intent. Ward’s team crosses a line they were never cleared to cross, into a theatre where Combine hardliners already want a ...

Echoes Above the Jungle: A Pilot’s Journey Through Vietnam is a gripping, haunting memoir that pulls readers into the cockpit of a Chinook helicopter, revealing the harrowing, adrenaline-fueled life of a combat pilot during one of America’s most brutal wars. For David "D.J." Collier, the Vietnam War was a world unto itself—a landscape of dense jungles, winding rivers, and silent mountains that became both ally and enemy. With raw authenticity and razor-sharp detail, Collier recounts the missions that pushed him to the edge: extracting troops under heavy fire, navigating impossible ...

Nineteen days from going home. One night over the Trail. And somewhere on the ridge below, a man with a missile is counting the seconds of their orbit. February 1971. While Lam Son 719 burns on the ground, the AC-130 gunships of the 16th Special Operations Squadron own the night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Major Coltrane has flown 211 missions in the left-bank orbit, the slow circle that turns a cargo plane into the deadliest truck killer in Southeast Asia. He knows the geometry cold. He knows his crew better. What he doesn't know is that intelligence got it wrong. The threat marked with a ...

For fans of Jack Campbell, David Weber, and John Scalzi, a galaxy-spanning space opera where one man’s fight to save his wife becomes a war for the future of humanity. Luke Blackburn only needed to cast one vote. As Commander of the Milky Way Alliance, his final duty was to travel to a distant planet and vote for the next king of the First Family. Instead, through a political ambush orchestrated by his own royal siblings, Luke is crowned monarch of the entire galaxy, a title he never wanted and has no intention of keeping. Then Annie, his pregnant bride, is kidnapped by forces wielding ...

Elias Rourke left the life of a tier one operator behind. But the phone always rings again. A highly classified contract drags him back into the field. The mission is supposed to be a straightforward extraction in a remote jungle. Rourke and his heavily armed squad must infiltrate a rebel mountain compound and retrieve stolen corporate data. But Veridian BioSystems was not just building weapons. They were breeding them. The rebels have unleashed something ancient. Something massive. The locals call it the Thunder Eater. Trapped between a hostile militia and an unmapped labyrinth of caves, ...

The jungle kept its secrets. It always had. But some secrets refuse to stay buried. When a scientific expedition vanishes without a trace in the uncharted depths of the Javari Valley, elite recovery specialist Dylan Hale gets the call. The mission is simple: get in, find the researchers, and get out. But the deep rainforest is hiding more than missing scientists. Deep within a pre-Columbian ruin built not for worship, but for containment, an apex predator has awakened. Engineered for slaughter and equipped with active camouflage that makes it practically invisible in the canopy, it doesn't ...

This book is a walk through a period of life when a combat veteran leaves the military and deals with the challenges of not only civilian life but learning he has PTSD. There are many transitions that the character goes through: getting out of the military, dealing with the world he lives in, discovering PTSD, learning what works and doesn't work, the challenges of suicide thoughts, discovering his true purpose in life and moving forward.

Get as close as you’ll get to a World War II–era P-51 Mustang without flying one yourself with this spellbinding collection of tales from the men who actually flew the planes into war. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang first started appearing in real numbers in 1943, at the climax of...

In this fast-paced story in the Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker Series, Mitch tests his physical and mental endurance during an extended wilderness survival course with his Special Forces unit which culminates in a thrilling showdown between Mitch and two notorious bear poachers. Taking place in south-central Idaho, Deadly Harvest displays author JT Sawyer’s inside knowledge of bushcraft, mantracking, and living off the land. This exciting novella is set eight years before Dead In Their Tracks and is a must-read for any fan of the Mitch Kearns series, or an ideal starting point for new ...

Phoenix has fallen, but the stakes are higher than ever. Commodore Shaw's nemesis is still alive, and a new, deadlier enemy is threatening the Resolute. To get his crew home, Shaw must risk everything, taking the Resolute deep behind enemy lines. There, his crew must face lethal opposition and...

On the morning of August 15, 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II out of Iwo Jima. Today, Captain Yellin is a sharp, engaging, 93-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by best-selling author Don Brown.

I’m Rishi Tremayne. I’m fifteen, female and desperately working to take care of my sick family. I hunt wrecked spaceships, destroyed in battle during the Empire's Galactic Slave War and turn in their location for credits I desperately need. If I don’t find hulls. . . we don’t eat. . . or pay rent. . . or get the necessary meds my family needs to block the excruciating pain they suffer from the dreaded nerve disease. Anyway, I found what I thought was a valuable metal asteroid. I don’t get credits for those. . . but when I posted it to the Mining Guild, the attacks started - my ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A terrific book … It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I’ve read in many a year’ JAMES HOLLAND ‘Riveting … A brilliant account’ DAILY MAIL THE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS. Britain’s SBS – or Special Boat Service – was the...