Military Reading

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator! "Kristin Hannah’s potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." —The Washington Post...

Into The Mouth of The Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of Vietnam tells the gripping true story of Lance Sijan. He was a United States Air Force captain in the Vietnam War. On November 9, 1967, Sijan was ejected from his F-4 Phantom II at high speed and a low altitude, causing him to suffer massive injuries to his entire body. During his violent ejection and very rough parachute landing on the karst ridge, Captain Lance Sijan suffered a fractured skull, a mangled right hand, with three of his fingers dislocated, and deep cuts and gashes in his forearms, a compound fracture of the left ...

📦Save 25% over individual purchase on THE REFLECTIVE SERIES COMPLETE BOX SET (BOOKS 1–5). 🔥 BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD meets BLADE & UNDERWORLD 🔥 A Dark Fantasy Sci-Fi Antihero Romance Saga by New York Times, USA TODAY, #1 Dark Fantasy & Amazon Top-15 Bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett. She’s the only female warrior in a world ruled by men. Enemies stalk her. Soulmates tear at her heart. And time itself is coming undone. 💀 Enter a dark, high-stakes world where supernatural warriors jump between realms, fated mates are torn apart by prophecy, and one woman is hunted across ...

He’s my grumpy bodyguard. I’m the chaos he can’t control. Jax Maddox is all muscle, silence, and restraint. Ex–Navy SEAL. Billionaire. Tattooed. Brooding. Impossible. When my best friend begs Jax to protect me from a stalker, my life gets locked inside his cold, gray penthouse—under rules etched in stone: No flirting. No touching. No falling. But then he breaks them. Watches me too long. Brushes past me too slow. Stands shirtless at the edge of my bed like a sin I’m dying to confess. One kiss and I lose myself. One night and I forget every line we swore not to cross. And then I ...

The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel. Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life...

The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to...

Gaia's Cull: Holy Warrior – The Siege Former 82nd Airborne SFC Jax Sheridan survived an ambush that should have killed him. In the coma that followed, he saw the plague to come. Now living above a hardware store in Rebel’s Gauntlet, he trains relentlessly, reads his Bible every night, and prepares. When the Gaia's Culling virus erupts, Jax forges armor from canvas and aluminum, crafts a Morning Star mace, and steps into the streets. As the dead rise and ammunition runs dry, he teaches others to fight with spear and shield, forming disciplined patrols that hold the line where others fall...

D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it’ll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one...

Abandoned by the sun, shunned by the Father of the Gods himself, the North is a wild place; a brutally cold land, where ambitious lords keep their followers warm with tales of how they will be the one to claim the prized crown of Alekka. Stories woven on stormy nights, sung around blazing fires over cups of ale, tell of the one who will unite the two halves of the broken land. They whisper of the Bear Stone, where the prophecy of that man’s coming was etched two thousand years ago.

Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career...

For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over 200 active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader's Bookshelf synthesizes their responses to identify the top 50 books that can help virtually anyone become a better leader.

Military working dogs gained widespread attention after Cairo participated in the SEAL Team 6 mission that led to Osama bin Laden's death. Before that, few civilians realized that dogs served in combat, let alone that they could parachute from thirty thousand feet up. The Dogs of War reveals the amazing range of jobs that our four-legged soldiers now perform, examines the dogs' training and equipment, and sets the record straight on those rumors of titanium teeth.

For the first time, the truth behind the best-selling adventure narrative The Long Walk.

Since 1956, The Long Walk has been, for many, the symbol of an immense love of freedom and has become one of the greatest true-life adventure stories of all time. The harrowing story about a group of POWs who escaped a labor camp in Siberia and walked to freedom in India during WWII deeply affected thousands of its readers, and Linda Willis was one of those moved by the story. But she had questions about its authenticity.

Mission Transition is an essential career-change guide for any transitioning veteran that wants to avoid false starts and make optimal career choices following active duty. Every year, about a quarter of a million veterans leave the military - most of whom are unprepared for the transition...

A top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath—one ranks among humanity’s greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed...

From the creative team behind the bestselling, Caldecott Medal--winning Finding Winnie comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen through the eyes of the world's most beloved bear. Here is a heartwarming imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear who inspired...

Protecting her is easy. Not touching her? Impossible… Caleb She’s the one woman I can’t have. The only one I crave. Years in the military made it easy to stay away, but when her brother begs me to step in and protect her from a stalker, I can’t say no. Now it will take all my strength and training to keep her safe and resist temptation. Because one kiss from Harmony will shred my promise to her brother—and our friendship. He’s saved my life more times than I can count. The only thing he ever asked of me? Leave his sister alone. How can I even consider breaking that promise now? ...

June 1190. A Knight Templar, Johannes von Hartelius, rescues the Holy Lance from his drowning King during the Third Crusade. April 1945. A courier arrives at the Hitler bunker with a parcel. The Führer calls for a vacuum canister to be brought, seals the documents he has received inside it, attaches the canister to a leather case containing the Holy Lance, and sends it away, guarded by a descendant of Johannes von Hartelius.

More than 2,000 years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his behavior at pattern breaks. Meaningful pattern breaks occur during dramatic deviations from the routine, when the enemy imposes costs upon himself. It's at these unexpected moments, Shore explains, that successful leaders can learn what makes their rivals truly tick.

In the final days of the empire, Cyborg Corps Colonel Leonidas Adler plans to die in a manner befitting of an imperial officer. He will fight until his last breath, giving his life to defend Emperor Markus, as it was meant to be. But when the emperor himself summons him for a final special mission, how can he refuse?