Marine Combat

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps' ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive's success. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad...

John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to locate and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967, wounded by a grenade in February of 1968, and hit by a bullet later that summer.

You Just Survive is a combat veteran memoir that pulls no punches. These modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan sit beside plain spoken accounts of PTSD and trauma recovery, raw combat moments and the quiet battles that follow when the uniform comes off. This is not a sanitized war book. It is a combat veteran memoir told hour by hour, from turret scans in Ramadi and Marjah to patrols that ended with IEDs, mortars, and decisions you carry forever. If you search for modern war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, you will find the real, unfiltered scenes that define this book. The book ...

A piece of groundbreaking technology becomes available in the UK - a theoretical invention that would make F-36 fighter jets imperious in aerial combat. The British Muslim woman who developed the system is threatened with an honor killing if she does not hand it over to her parents' ancestral homeland. Pakistan send their most accomplished ISI agents to intervene and take possession of the flash drive when the woman goes missing. The New York based trio of former Special Forces personnel decide on a short vacation to the North of England. If Pakistan were ever to get their hands on the ...

Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon became one of the first American forces to enter Fallujah, where they encountered some of the most intense hand-to-hand combat since World War II. Civilians were used as human shields or as bait to lure soldiers into buildings rigged with explosives; suicide bombers approached from every corner hoping to die and take Americans with them; radical insurgents, high on adrenaline, fought to the death.

North and South Korea are on a collision course with the prospect of reigniting war in this action-packed military thriller! 1LT Sam Harper, surfing engineer, tries to fit in on his new job. He’ll risk everything to prevent mass destruction. Sam’s intelligence analysts identify security vulnerabilities in a government lab in Seoul. Meanwhile, his CIA ex-girlfriend complicates his life with her spy priorities. A desperate North Korean general sends a naive Special Forces lieutenant and his team across the DMZ to steal nuclear materials technology. Sends them disguised to infiltrate the ...

La vidéo était partout – un phénomène viral qui déferlait sur les réseaux sociaux. Un chiot golden retriever à Bilbao, en Espagne. On le plaçait sur une série de tapis différents, et son pelage se transformait en temps réel pour épouser les couleurs et même les motifs complexes tissés dans le tissu. Internet était en ébullition, avec des centaines de milliers de commentaires débattant pour savoir s’il s’agissait d’un canular élaboré, d’une anomalie génétique… ou de quelque chose de bien plus mystérieux. Mais Sam Reilly connaissait la vérité dès ...

The Last Stand of Fox Company is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism and self-sacrifice in the face of impossible odds. The authors have conducted dozens of firsthand interviews with the battle's survivors, and they narrate the story with the immediacy of such classic accounts of single battles as Guadalcanal Diary, Pork Chop Hill, and Black Hawk Down.

Two series. Six novels. One massive journey into the void. Humanity has a remarkable talent for surviving the impossible. Unfortunately, the universe keeps taking that personally. In Voidwalker Chronicles, Major Ethan Irons survives the near-extinction of humanity only to discover that the apocalypse was merely the opening act. Thrust into a brutal interstellar war, Ethan must forge alliances with alien civilizations, face an enemy powerful enough to wipe humanity from the stars, and somehow turn a battered collection of survivors into a force capable of fighting back. In Renegades of the ...

Helmand Province is falling apart. The Taliban are surging back into the fight. Marines are dying. Intelligence is failing. And deep inside southern Afghanistan, whispers begin spreading about a terrifying new weapon smuggled across the Iranian border — one capable of changing the battlefield overnight. Caught in the middle of the chaos are two Marine squad leaders: Sergeant Morgan and Corporal Dean. Battle-tested and exhausted from endless deployments, the two men are forced to navigate collapsing leadership, impossible orders, and the brutal realities of combat in one of the deadliest ...

• NOW AN EXCITING TV SERIES FROM CRACKLE • Welcome to Nemesis Legion convict, where six battles beneath the banner will earn you a full pardon for your crimes, if you survive. Samuel Hyst, now a captive of Grotto, finds himself locked up after giving up the location of the ancient relic he'd attempted to hide in exchange for the corporation leaving his family alone. Nemesis is a notorious prison planet where citizens who cannot pay their debts to the corporations are incarcerated along with the hardest criminals in necrospace. He is soon reunited with his old comrade Harold Marr, a ...

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.

Zachary Cannon joined the Navy to get trained as a radiology tech, a skill he could use to get a job and support his family after his enlistment. But the needs of the Navy take priority, and much to his surprise, he was given orders to the Fleet Marine Force as a corpsman to an infantry battalion deploying to Iraq. As part of a rifle squad in Ramadi, Zach joins the Marines on patrol, in assaults, and on security duty, facing the same dangers and hardships.

Ils disent qu’on ne peut pas fuir son passé, et maintenant qu’elle a atteint l’autre bout de la galaxie, Sparks se demande s’ils ont raison… Vivant sur une planète lointaine avec une population transitoire depuis un an, fréquentant les bars miteux des spatioports, côtoyant pirates, chasseurs de primes et criminels, elle est devenue une ombre parmi d’autres. Mais elle n’est pas née pour survivre en marge de la société. Pas avec ses pouvoirs. Alors, quand un inconnu lui fait une offre alléchante… Une aventure qu’elle désespérait de vivre… Elle se demande si le ...

Winter, 1950. Second Lieutenant Garrick has commanded his Marine platoon for three days when the order comes down: fourteen miles on foot, through cold that reaches thirty below zero, surrounded by an enemy that outnumbers them ten to one. The lieutenant he replaced died before Garrick ever learned his name. Now thirty men are his to bring home, and he has a notebook to prove he is trying. He has a gunnery sergeant who has buried better officers than Garrick and has not decided yet whether this one is different. A twenty three year old corpsman with eight doses of morphine and far more men ...

There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has been only one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legend of Marine lore. He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines. His record has never been matched: 93 confirmed kills. This is his story. Powerful, chilling, and all true.

You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave. You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger, and something stops you. You interview a potential new employee who has the résumé to do the job, but something tells you not to offer the position. These scenarios all represent "left of bang", the moments before something bad happens.

What does a combat android, a space marine, a starfighter pilot, a paramedic trapped inside a combat mech, a rogue starship captain, and the galaxy's most dangerous femme fatale have in common? Absolutely nothing... except that every one of them is about to have the worst week of their life. They're also all creations of Sean Robins, blending razor-sharp sarcasm, unforgettable characters, explosive action, and impossible odds into six unforgettable military science fiction adventures. Inside you'll find six complete first novels, each opening the door to a bestselling series, with more than...

Discover true stories of the silent heros that live among us with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. “The stories America needs to hear” —Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.) Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection...