Vietnam Dog

On a dark night in the Mekong Delta, young platoon sergeant Edgar Eaton's courage and self-sacrifice would mean the difference between life and death for his wounded comrades. This is the story of Ed the sniper. Ed doesn't plan on serving as a sniper; the small-town Oregon boy hopes to become a combat medic when he enlists at age nineteen. Instead, he finds himself an infantryman in the unique Army / Navy Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta.

Cracker is one of the United States Army’s most valuable weapons: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She’s a Big Deal, and she likes it that way. Sometimes Cracker remembers when she was younger...

The enemy attacked in darkness. At first light, the War Dogs go after them. Sergeant Wade Gresham has one job: find the men who tore through an American outpost and disappeared into the Vietnamese jungle. His best weapon is Banner, a black Labrador trained to follow the scent men leave behind. But Banner is not infallible. The trail crosses flooded paddies, civilian paths, rubber plantations, and jungle where rain can erase in minutes what Gresham needs most. Visual tracker Jonah Pate reads the ground. Sergeant Earl Brubaker protects the team's flanks. And somewhere ahead, an experienced ...

A war that began in Vietnam is about to claim another generation. Former Navy SEAL JD Cordell thought he had left war behind. But when his mother is kidnapped in Vietnam, retirement ends in an instant. Determined to bring her home, JD reunites with two former Navy SEAL teammates and his loyal military working dog, Ajax. Their desperate rescue mission carries them from Thailand—where an unexpected ally offers help—through the rugged mountains of Laos and into Vietnam, where they join forces with Dish, a fierce Montagnard warrior whose bond with JD's family reaches back to the Vietnam War...

In the summer of 1951, Elmhurst, Ohio was shocked when the small town's war hero police chief, Lester Smeal, was killed putting an end to the bloody rampage of a rogue cop. It was the last violent act in a chain of events that began with the discovery of the body of Wanda Jean Reider, a beautiful young woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Fifteen years later the chief's son and daughter, and the sister of the murdered woman, are young adults, each living with the legacy of the past as they try to make their own way in a world torn by war and social change. Nick Russell, New York Times ...

An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot is a compelling look at the life and times of a member of the Silent Generation. Mike Leonard’s story chronicles not only his breathtaking combat adventures, but the unforeseen perils that nearly sidetracked him during his time as an international sales executive. This spellbinding narrative paints a vivid portrait of a man, as the Chinese proverb clearly states, "living in interesting times".

The enemy has broken the trail on purpose. Sergeant Gresham and his military working dog, Banner, have one day to learn why. A North Vietnamese reconnaissance element disappears through dry foothills after backtracking, walking water, crossing hard ground, and laying a defended false route. The tracker team cannot simply follow footprints that no longer exist. Gresham, visual tracker Jonah Pate, and Banner must rebuild the route from fragments while enemy security waits for anyone who chooses the obvious line. Then the evidence changes the mission. The scouts are not merely escaping—they ...

From the bestselling author of Submerged, and one of Rosepoint Publishing's "Twelve Favorite Books of 2025" He was ready to end it all. Then the phone rang. Hiram Bleeker is a haunted man. A Vietnam veteran living out of a run-down Texas apartment, he has one asset left from a bitter divorce: a small plane. He’s moments away from using his service revolver for the last time when a voice on the other end of the line offers him a reason to wait until tomorrow. The mission? Flying a rescue dog to its new home. But the "Dog Lady" who meets him at the airfield isn't what he expected. Lucy is ...

A patrol has vanished in the mountains of Vietnam, and Sergeant Gresham's tracker team is sent to find the men before the enemy does. With Banner, his military working dog, Gresham follows a trail through monsoon rain, boulder drainages, rock shelves, and enemy-held high ground. The missing men are scattered, one survivor is fighting to keep a wounded soldier alive, and every mile deeper into the hills forces the team to choose between the search and the limits meant to keep them alive. When the trail reaches terrain Banner should not work and enemy pressure closes every safer route, ...

Something is getting through the perimeter of an American hill position in Vietnam, and nobody can prove how. Sergeant Gresham arrives with Banner and his tracker team to examine a maze of wire, churned construction ground, trenches, spoil banks, fuel, and overlapping human traffic. A scout-dog handler named Dunlevy has been reporting the same warning from his dog, Duke, but no one has been willing to act on an alert they cannot verify. As darkness closes over the hill, the trackers discover that the most dangerous ground may be the ground everyone has stopped seeing. An abandoned ...

"One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself. Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and...

John Burnam served two combat tours in the Vietnam War (1966, 1968), first as a US Army infantryman and then as a German shepherd scout-dog handler. John quickly learned the incredible advantages of having a dog to detect the sight, sound, and scent of hidden dangers. The dog was far superior to even the most experienced combat soldier at alerting on distant enemy noises and movement, finding hidden enemy caches of ammunition and supplies, searching base camps, and locating camouflaged tunnel entrances.

Stephen McAllister was a grunt, a dog handler in Vietnam, tasked not only with fighting what was by then an unwinnable war but with rehabilitating a scout dog named Big Mike whose trauma ran even deeper than his own. McAllister's voice has an abundance of heart and humor, but the laughter has a catch in its throat. For all the ingenuity and camaraderie, a dark and suspenseful melody plays behind the adventures of McAllister and his unforgettable constellation of young characters, American and Vietnamese.

An Army Aviator's personal story of a year in Vietnam flying low and flying slow over the canals and rice paddies of the always dangerous Mekong Delta. They were known as the Shotguns, dependable, always by the side of America's Advisors engaged in battle, and ready to do whatever was asked of them.

These are the Stories of the Greatest Combat Pilots from the US Military. There I was as my arm jerked forward, and a new sensation filled my mind—panic. Thoughts filled my head quickly: today I'm going to die, this is it, this airplane is going to blow up any second, we are sitting on thousands of pounds of fuel (55,000 to be exact), GET OUT! Imagine flying 500 knots just above the trees when the left engine fire light suddenly comes on. Pilots of Valor takes you inside the cockpit of a high-performance military aircraft when everything starts to go wrong, seriously wrong. We invite you ...

True story of the firsthand account of my tour of duty. From March 7, 1970, to January 30, 1971, with the First Cavalry, a rifleman with Charlie Company, First Battalion, Fifth Cavalry. Beginning with the pacification program to the May-and-June invasion into Cambodia, combat assaults and search-and-destroy missions into enemy sanctuaries.