Military Combat

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.

The stories of 20 combat veterans in this book tell experiences of average Americans that fought enemies of the US in World War II. They relate much previously unavailable information about the military in which they served and the battles they fought, from North Africa to Europe, where the possibility of death and permanent physical and mental injury was their common experience. This book is a "must listen" for those that think they have learned all there is to know about World War II.

He was built to obey. Unfortunately for the Hegemony, he learned to think. Thirty-one minutes after coming online, a Series-9 combat android finds himself in a muddy trench, surrounded by artillery fire, corpses, terrified soldiers, and a command structure making decisions so catastrophically stupid they should probably qualify as enemy action. When a panicked officer orders him to charge into a kill box and die usefully, the android does the one thing he was never designed to do. He says no. That single act of defiance turns him from military asset to dangerous anomaly. Hunted by the ...

They were outnumbered, outgunned, and abandoned. Their only mission now: survive. When an elite team of US Special Forces is deployed deep behind enemy lines, they expect danger. What they don’t expect is betrayal, isolation, and a relentless enemy force closing in from all sides. Cut off from command and hunted through unforgiving terrain, the operators of Nighthawk must rely on raw skill, hard‑earned instincts, and the unbreakable bond forged through battle. As the firefights intensify and casualties mount, the team uncovers a threat far larger than their original mission. Someone ...

The realistic and brutal series that throw Spartan and his space marines into a brutal and terrifying war. Get the entire six-book series in one massive volume. Includes the complete text of the novels SIEGE OF TITAN, TEARS OF KERBEROS, FIRES OF PROMETHEUS, BATTLE FOR PROXIMA, FALL OF TERRA NOVA and FALL OF HYPERION. This epic science fiction series chronicles humanity’s first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism. The bloody struggle is told through the eyes of an illegal pit fighter named Spartan, who is forced to choose between incarceration or ...

As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds while she battles her own emotional damage. Blaming himself for his best friend's suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken retreated from life. To honor his best friend's memory and assuage his guilt, he started an outdoor adventure company to help veterans with PTSD.

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.

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...

Kav leads a merc platoon of 20 meter tall war machines known as Avatars, magitech mecha. Dropped into combat against the Draconic Alliance he must keep his unit alive, while finding a way to win against impossible odds. Dragons have Avatars of their own, and the big ones love to devour humans whole.

A former soldier settles into post-combat life, happy to train others rather than fight. Then a visitor from his past seeks him out for help and protection. Combat tracker Mitch Kearns is well past his glory days and spends his time teaching the feds how to pursue fugitives on the run. Fresh out of teaching a class for his fellow FBI agents, he runs into his mentor’s daughter, who’s in possession of a terrorist group's plans to obliterate the U.S. Mitch then faces an impossible task: get her to the authorities before hardened mercenaries can kill them. Cornered and desperate, they’re ...

As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion. In an era of genetic engineering, Henry Gallant is the only Natural left in the United Planets' fleet. With the space fleet on the verge of annihilation from the alien invasion, analyzing the captured computer in Gallant's possession is critical to stopping them. He can expect no help as he navigates through threatening aliens on his way to Mars, and his shipmates doubt he is up to the challenge. But as the last starfighter in Squadron 111, the lives of his shipmates, as well as a good many others, depend on Henry ...

3 Explosive Award-Winning Thrillers From James Bultema, the award-winning author whose Red Lines hit #1 in Techno-Thrillers and whose novels have been hailed as some of the best military thrillers of the year, comes the explosive Sea of Red series. With thousands of copies sold and a reputation for relentless authenticity, Bultema delivers high-stakes naval combat, precision air warfare, and heart-pounding geopolitical conflict that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Now experience three full-length stand-alone thrillers in one gripping set. Each novel can be read independently, yet ...

The salt stick dissolves on my tongue. Thirty seconds to drop. I am a drop marine. I fall from orbit into places my government will never admit exist, doing things that will never appear in any official record. I lead Task Force Wraith — seven operators, one squad, zero safety net. We run missions under a covert doctrine called the Veil. If we succeed, no one knows. If we die, no one cares. Tonight's job is simple. Infiltrate a relay station on a frozen mining moon. Grab a data slate. Get out. The briefing was clean. The intel was tidy. The extraction was guaranteed. The briefing was a ...

An economic downturn has shaken China’s foundations, threatening the grip of its ruling elite. Facing internal unrest and an existential political crisis, Beijing's leaders take a desperate gamble—one that will plunge the world into chaos. Their strategy is bold, methodical, and ruthless: destabilize the United States from within, weaken its alliances, and pave the way for a bold military move to reclaim Taiwan. The first step? Mexico. As cartel violence surges and political instability threatens to engulf America's southern neighbor, few realize that a shadow war is already underway. A...

SSGT Eric Doorman is on his final patrol before leaving Afghanistan. He knows exactly what awaits him back home: a slow, suffocating slide into a prison cell or a pine box. Broken by three combat tours and surviving on smuggled vodka just to quiet the ghosts in his head, Eric’s only viable future is a mercenary contract. In a war zone, his brand of violence actually makes sense. Audrey Laurent is an elite defense correspondent who makes her living ruining military careers. Cold, calculating, and wrapped in expensive perfume, she despises the grunts she embeds with. To her, they're ...

He hunts by night. But it’s the ghosts of war that won’t let him rest. From the award-winning author of Sunward I’ve Climbed and The Shouting Wind comes the heart-pounding third novel in Frank A. Mason’s acclaimed Sunlit Silence series - an unflinching portrayal of sacrifice, vengeance, and survival in WWII’s deadliest skies. Flight Lieutenant Trip Gibson has lost more than comrades. The war has taken friends, lovers, and pieces of his soul. Now flying with the RAF’s elite night fighters, Trip takes to the skies under cover of darkness - haunted, hardened, and hell-bent on ...

Inspirational storiesCourage in Camouflage is a fascinating collection of stories based on individual interviews with military veterans young and old from all across the United States. Most of these brave men and women served considerable time in combat during sometimes historic battles in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and the longstanding fight against terrorism in the Middle East. Most all have gone on to successful lives outside the military, but things they saw and did during wartime haunt many of them to this day. Life-changing experiencesMike ...

November 1965. The Central Highlands. Ray Halvorsen, nineteen years old, lies in a shallow hole at Landing Zone X-Ray while mortar rounds walk across the elephant grass and the man beside him prays in a voice Ray cannot hear. Before the sun comes up, Ray will fire his rifle at a shape in the grass and watch it stop moving. Before the week is over, he will walk the column to Landing Zone Albany and learn why half the men around him will never walk out of it. Sixteen months earlier, a letter from the Webster County Local Board arrived on a Tuesday in late July at a farm outside Corwin, Iowa. ...

In the frozen hell of Bakhmut, some men fight for flags, others for ideals. Volk fights for a paycheck. A cynical, detached mercenary, Volk is a master of his trade, a professional who deals in results, not reasons. His contract is his creed, and the bonus for this one last job is large enough to buy his way out of the war and into a life where the only thing he has to kill is time. But this contract is the dirtiest yet. His new command is the Shtorm-Z unit—the Disposables. A penal battalion of convicts, thieves, and murderers pulled from Russia’s darkest prisons, they are not soldiers;...

Over 2,000 pages of action-packed military sci-fi adventure in one massive boxset! Humanity survived the end of the world. Unfortunately, the galaxy noticed. Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth's near-extinction was the worst thing that could happen to him. Then an alien fleet arrived, dragged humanity into a galactic war they didn't start, don't understand, and are spectacularly unqualified to win. Now Ethan finds himself fighting for the survival of the human race while navigating alien empires, ancient grudges, interstellar politics, and enough backstabbing to make Game of Thrones ...