Combat Fiction

Depuis son retour à Sosua, en République dominicaine, Ruth se bat aux côtés d'Almah qui n'a rien perdu de son énergie, pour les siens, pour la mémoire de sa communauté, pour contribuer à faire de sa terre natale le pays dont elle rêve, alors que les touristes commencent à déferler sur l'île. Gaya, sa fille, affirme son indépendance et part faire des études de biologie marine aux États-Unis, où Arturo et Nathan mènent leurs vies d'artistes.

U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division. On January 2, 2004, Captain Hampton was flying an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq, in support of a raid on an illicit weapons marketplace, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion....

Two soldiers debate what it means to love and live on a battlefield A short, dark, and dystopic vignette of war throughout the ages. If you ever supported any war, you’ll get the message. You won’t feel good. The tale shows what we have become, what we are living, and where we may be going

Israel, late 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below, and promptly disappears. It soon becomes clear to Israeli intelligence that the pilot is a defector, desperate to come over to the US side. Houston Flight Controller and former test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is charged with bringing the pilot and his plane to the highly secret Area 51, in the Nevada desert. But every defection carries with it a risk.

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.

Alex and Jules have been enlisted by Napoleon to head an expedition to find the 3rd Symbol of the Golden Seal before a mad man reaches it. The seal has mystical powers which could give a man the power to rule the world! Little did they realize once they had committed themselves to the mission that it would lead to them joining the mad man as he plunges them and a mighty ship into the depths of the Atlantic, seeking a mysterious entrance to the very interior of the Earth itself. An exciting adventure during the Victorian times on an alternate Earth where magic and science co-exist.

Mitch thought he would just be training under his mantracking mentor in the North Woods—until a killing spree began outside of a small town. When a botched heist goes horribly wrong, three thieves are forced to flee into the rugged wilderness in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Soon, Mitch, along with his mentor and a fellow classmate, are thrust into a federal manhunt to track down the murderous trio before they can escape. Using all of their fieldcraft and tactical experience, the elite team soon discovers that the killers are skilled survivalists who plan to turn the tables on their ...

La fin est proche. La guerre ravage le Nord et Logen Neuf-Doigts n'a plus qu'une seule bataille à livrer, sans doute la plus dure. Il est temps pour le Neuf-Sanglant de rentrer chez lui affronter son plus vieil ami, devenu son pire ennemi. Au sud, le Supérieur Glokta mène un autre type de guerre, plus meurtrière encore. Et si ses anciens talents de guerrier lui font défaut, il lui reste ses armes de prédilection : le chantage, la menace et la torture. Quant à Jezal, il a choisi d'abandonner la vie militaire pour l'amour, mais la gloire n'en a pas tout à fait fini avec lui...

Among them was green young Lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded. He led his rapidly diminishing force steadily forward for the next few days, when a day's gains were measured in yards. Caruso was eventually wounded himself and was evacuated. Realizing that the heroism of his comrades would be lost by the decimation of his unit, Caruso latched onto any paper he could find and filled every blank space with his memory of the fighting.

Esclave des Smaughs, Cellendhyll devra puiser en lui-même des ressources insoupçonnées afin de libérer Priam et se tirer d'affaire. Il devra se démener plus encore sur le Plan du Destin pour dénouer les fils du mystère entourant la mort de ses parents. Son deuil sera de courte durée. La reine des Smaughs a lancé son offensive et son armée d'hommes et de bêtes déferle sur les Territoires-Francs, massacrant quiconque se trouve sur son passage. Qui pourra résister à une telle puissance ? Pour le Hors-Destin et ses camarades, le temps de la bataille a sonné !

A factual novel of combat, disease, corruption, and survival. Little is written about 1970–1972 Vietnam. The country lost interest, and apathy replaced anti-war sentiment now that the US was rapidly withdrawing troops.

The underlings are defeated. Time to take down their bosses. With the local enemies contained, the agents set their sights on finally taking on the true threat. Earthly enemies have compromised their government and are launching cyber-attacks on their systems. Oriceran enemies have added new bounties. Cara and Diana are still in the crosshairs. No one is safe, in the city above, or the Kemana below. Even the group honoring the memory of the Silver Griffins is targeted.

Comme tous les héros de Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis s'interroge pour mieux comprendre le monde et mieux se comprendre lui-même. Il cherche à sortir d'une situation fausse qui est l'échec de son mariage. Une longue lettre forme tout le récit où il prend sa femme à témoin du vain combat qu'il a mené contre son penchant naturel et sa vocation véritable.

Captain Harry Morgan is Rocket Man, an experimental pilot enlisted to fly a new device that gives man the ability to fly through the air. During World War Two during its last days, Hitler planned to send missiles raining down on America with nuclear warheads. Harry is sent to stop it. But the new device he wears glitches, and he is sent into an alternate timeline, where Hitler has won the war. Now, Harry, after attempting to return home for once and all, finds that his suit glitches yet again and flings him into an alternate timeline, where Doctor Zombie has created a world about to be ...

The Honor might have survived the first encounter with the Nazuc, but it won't be the last. Before the next engagement, Captain Masters and his ad hoc crew will need to find help. But will anyone beyond the belt be interested in joining the fight? Beyond the Belt is the second book in the Honor in Exile series, which features plenty of aliens, action, and the worst—and best—of humanity.

Quatre adolescents, évadés de leur orphelinat prison, reprennent la lutte perdue par leurs parents quinze ans plus tôt. Leur combat, hymne grandiose au courage et à la liberté, semble désespéré. Et pourtant...

The dragon mage reigns supreme! Finally, all of Lance's visions are coming to fruition. The Draconis Clan has been restored, his enemies have been vanquished, and unity has been restored to the northern province under the banner of the red dragon. But… there's a problem. Lance isn't the only dragon in Oracle.

La France traversait la pire crise de son histoire. Préparez-vous au dernier combat. Une banale descente dans une cité, des jeunes abattus par un policier. L’embrasement du pays et l’effondrement de l’État. Vingt-sept jours de survie plus tard, l’ordre semble enfin de retour, avec lui le média, le vice politique et citoyen, tandis que de larges zones du territoire sont encore privées de tout, et que certains refusent toujours de déposer les armes. Sous un intense conditionnement et l’impulsion de milices " citoyennes ", la crise semble sous contrôle. En réalité, rien n’est réglé.

Everett Ross often feels like a fish out of water, an ex-Texas Ranger who traded his horse and six-gun for the cockpit of a pursuit aircraft in the British Royal Flying Corps. Through his inimitable West Texas narrative, Ross thrills the reader with a riveting tale of authentic aerial combat in the skies above the stalemated trenches of World War I.

For three years Andrew Carroll traveled throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during US wars.