Military Combat

When enemies vanish into thin air, even the best can’t see what’s coming. Lieutenant Jason "Steel" Armstrong and his elite Marine unit thought their last mission tested them to their limits. Now, they’re back in action, tasked with a high-stakes operation in the unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan. Their target: a shadowy insurgent network that’s harnessed groundbreaking cloaking technology to evade detection and stockpile weapons for global destruction. Dubbed "Operation Mirage," the mission is anything but straightforward. Ambushes, hostile terrain, and a relentless enemy force ...

Among the most successful leaders throughout history - from Abe Lincoln to Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi to Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr., to Nelson Mandela - some were brilliant mathematicians and economists, others were creative visionaries, still others were masterful at strategic planning. Their mastery of their field wasn't the secret to their highly effective leadership. All of their skill, grit, resilience, charisma, and courage emanated from one thing: their strength of character.

After the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese Americans became the subject of racism and discrimination within the United States. Many were rounded up and put in concentration camps. But even while this was happening, there were many Japanese American soldiers who fought to ensure that all Americans were safe during the biggest conflict in world history. Facing the Mountain is the story of three Japanese American soldiers: Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team to fight for their country in World War II.

Dr. Tiffany Tajiri, a veteran USAF officer and board-certified clinical psychologist, has been in countless sessions with combat veterans and their loved ones and now shares powerful firsthand accounts, lessons, proven exercises, and biblical truth. Whether experiencing combat directly as a veteran or wanting to help bring healing as a family member, pastor, chaplain, or counselor, this book is essential.

The AC-130 gunship was quickly developed in 1968 to provide fire support for ground forces in Vietnam. Twenty-eight C-130 cargo aircraft were converted into AC-130s for night attack operations. The AC-130 was crude, ugly, ad hoc, and detested by many within the USAF...but it worked, and it worked well. Likewise, AC-130 crews were deemed unruly “biker gangs” but performed magnificently in every major US military operation from 1976 to 1995. Most of these combat operations were cloaked in secrecy, but records once classified for up to 20 years have now been opened.

THEY MAKE A STARTLING DISCOVERY THAT CHANGES EVERYHING.... AS THE SPECIAL OPS TEAM CONTINUES ITS DESCENT IN SEARCH OF THE TERRORISTS WHO RELEASED A WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE, CHANTEL DISCOVERS THAT THE CULT SHE TRUSTED IS FAR MORE THAN SHE THOUGHT WITH TIES TO AN ANCIENT CULTURE THAT COULD BE THE SALVATAION OF HUMANITY OR ITS GREATEST ENEMY! TWO MORE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF THE SPECIAL FORCES TEAM!

A woman slaughtered. Her husband accused. Can this military investigator stop the killer from claiming more victims? Fairchild Air Force Base. Sergeant Evelyn “Mac” McGregor strives to show she’s cut out for service. So when a gruesome crime interrupts her dreaded morning run, the dedicated career woman quickly rushes to the aid of the man found drenched in his wife’s blood. But the strong-willed Latina suspects foul play when leadership pushes for a quick conviction, stating it’s an open-and-shut case. Teaming up with a sexy Master Sergeant to track down evidence, Mac feels the ...

Steve Holbrook, with his defense reserve squadron, is called upon to resist the incursion of an unknown star cruiser. The defenders fail to prevent the cruiser from destroying their world, but manage to survive. Who destroyed the planet and the pioneers who lived there? How was it done? Why would anyone destroy an out-of-the-way agricultural planet in such a destructive display of power? To track down and apprehend the one responsible, Steve will rely on friends old and new, follow a trail of clues, endure an assassination attempt, use powerful new technologies, and discover something alien...

Published for the first time in the United States, Combat Diary is the war story of Dog Battery, also known US Army Gun Battalion D. Originally only published in Germany in 1945, it tells the tale of 150 US soldiers as they arrive in England in July of 1944. The battalion arrives on the beaches of Normandy, fights through France—and ultimately into Germany—at the time of the fall of the Nazi regime. It is an intimate account of the actions and endurance of the soldiers over those seven months.

A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old tanker she'd nursed back to health five months before in Normandy. The charge nurse on Surgical gently informs the lieutenant that the private is critical.

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.

In the grand tradition of John Keegan's enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire.

Book Overview: Joe McKenna is a woman lieutenant in the US Army's Special Forces. All her life, she has known nothing but the military and its implacable discipline. But after losing almost her entire unit in an attack in Afghanistan, Joe is questioning her future. While she is recovering to recharge her batteries, fate throws the irresistible little Maïa into her path, along with her grandfather Anton Vassily and their bodyguard Vlad. While they are getting to know each other in a New York tea room, armed assailants burst in and seriously injure the grandfather and Vlad. But when they try...

Ava is a Grim Reaper...a special forces soldier patrolling an earthquake flattened London. John is a citizen who has lost his wife and child when the largest earthquake in the world flattened London. Ava battles a group of terrorists called "The Red Hand," when she and her team mates are ambushed. Ava escapes, but is badly wounded. John discovers her in a broken alley, where his grief is broken by the sudden attraction he has to this soldier, who if he is not careful, will kill him if he unmasks her. But he has to unmask her to save her. What happens next will change everything..for both of...

Perils of Flight is an exciting collection of stories about a young college graduate turned fighter pilot. The book spans across the globe and across decades from rural Tennessee to Vietnam and interesting places in between.

SPRING 1917. A storm is about to break.. A storm of bullets delivered by the Albatros' of the Red Baron and his pilots... Eddie Grenville doesn't know the hell he's about to fly into. Eddie is 19 and just finished school. He is idealistic and maybe a bit naive. He looks up to his older brother Percy, who he has followed into the RFC. But then he finds out that Percy has commited a war crime, one that it revealed would both blacken the family name and tear it apart, though a ruthless press baron is intent on turning Percy into a hero, Eddie, confused and distraught, takes the first posting ...

In this compelling and meticulously researched audiobook on the Vietnam War era, David Gerhardt blends his riveting firsthand experience with documented facts. The result is a historical war memoir offering a comprehensive perspective on one of America's most notoriously divisive eras and brutal armed conflicts. Whether they fought in it, demonstrated against it, or subsisted through the tumultuous times, Vietnam belonged to the baby boomer generation.

Steve Jones is a former senior British combat pilot flying with the Army Air Corps (AAC), and Apache At War is his vivid and uncompromising account of flying 'the ultimate fighting machine', the Apache AH1 attack helicopter in action. From patrolling 'Bandit Country' in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s, to taking out Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the mid to late 2000s, with active service in the Balkans and Iraq along the way: Steve Jones offers the taut, gritty, and graphic reality of flying in military service.

When the Empire can’t win a protracted war, they’ll call upon their best to end it in one final epic battle. A war of expansion has raged for years, and the leaders of the Empire are desperate to end it. Turning to cutting edge science, the Empire will risk its greatest soldiers in a gamble to end the war once and for all. Arpina and Fairlight are battle-hardened by years of conflict. Tasked with an impossible mission, they will do everything accomplish their objective, regardless of the costs. With the galaxy's fate hanging in the balance, only a daring mission led by two of the ...

The Army's need: An automatic pistol with the stopping power of the .45 caliber Colt single action Army revolver. Colt and John Browning collaborated to meet the Army's need. The result was the greatest combat pistol ever designed. This book examines why the Army insisted on .45 caliber, the innovation required to meet that requirement, and how the model of 1911 beat the competition in reliability, function, and feel.