Military Combat

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.

A galaxy teeters on chaos. A trial could shatter a hero. A truth will change everything. Summoned by the Collective Dominion to face charges for forbidden sydereal crimes, Kory Drake stands alone in a trial that could end his life. On a distant alien world, where justice is a twisted game and survival means mastering deception, Kory is cut off from his crew and stripped of his defenses—until an unlikely ally offers him a chance to fight back. Under the legendary Admiral Seraphis, Kory enters the Dominion Space Warfare School to refine his skills in combat and leadership. But as he trains,...

This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a 15-year-old German-Italian who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and later as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam.

Stranded among strangers. Hunted by pirates. Humanity's freedom hangs in the balance. Kory Drake and the crew of Thunder are stranded in the unforgiving Arizona desert after crash-landing their guerrilla starship. Their alien military adviser, Zeta, is missing and presumed dead. Desperate for help, they stumble upon a small town under siege by ruthless alien bandits. In exchange for transportation back to their hidden base in the mountains, Kory and his crew agree to rid the town of its tormentors. But the trail of the bandits leads far beyond the Arizona sands—to a desolate crater on the...

Kory Drake and his crew barely escaped destruction—but their trials are far from over. Trapped aboard their damaged starship after narrowly fleeing hostile space, Kory finds himself helpless as Sofia, the woman he loves, succumbs to a mysterious and life-threatening injury. Desperate for help, they return to a dangerously occupied Earth, triggering a chase by ruthless alien patrols and forcing them into perilous maneuvers to survive. But when Kory discovers that Earth's most skilled neurosurgeons have been kidnapped by humanity’s alien oppressors for sinister purposes, a daring rescue ...

Policing Saigon isn't Platoon or Apocalypse Now, but the story of Loren W. Christensen's experience as a military policeman (MP) in a city of millions at a time when chaos and fear reigned. As a 23-year-old from a small town in Washington State, the author was plunged into a chaotic city of brawling servicemen, prostitutes, racial violence, enemy rockets, riots, and death. It was a place that would give him a unique opportunity to see up close a different side of the Vietnam War and its effect on the human condition.

Eleven years ago, three Mossad operatives embarked upon a rescue mission in Africa that would have a ripple effect on their lives and the futures of their loved ones. Now, years later, Dev, Mitch, and their Gideon team are framed for a killing by an unknown assailant whose grasp extends beyond international borders. With Gideon being shuttered because of criminal charges on the anniversary of the founder’s death, Dev must battle against overwhelming forces to uncover who is responsible for trying to dismantle her company and alter the elections in the Israeli Parliament. With only days ...

In this brilliant narrative of America's first limited war, Toland lets both the events and the participants speak for themselves, employing scrupulous archival research and interviews as the bases for the drama and accuracy of his writing. In Mortal Combat reveals Mao's prediction of the date and place of MacArthur's Inchon landing, Russia's indifference to the war, Mao's secret leadership of the North Korean military, and the true nature of both sides' treatment and repatriation of POWs.

WINGMAN AT WAR is a first-hand, earnest, exciting, and heartfelt journey into the cockpit and beyond of a talented young fighter pilot suddenly called into combat without prior notice or fanfare. Derived from a personal journal kept completely secret from the world until now, the author Matt "Boz" Beals, takes the reader on a flight of a lifetime as the youngest F-15C Eagle pilot flying combat in the Persian Gulf War. Raw, unencumbered, and without agenda, this brand-new mission ready wingman tells the remarkable story of deploying, flying, fighting, and winning the air war over Iraq during...

…Ben Het has tanks in the wire! “Hawk Claw is engaging,” the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat. Fire Base Delta had already been over run and Fire Base Charlie was fighting for its life. How much would fall before the North Vietnamese army was knocking on the doors of the key city of Kontum? This was the third phase of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Campaign of 1972. Standing across the country between them and the fall of Saigon was a poorly led South Vietnamese Army, brave South Vietnamese soldiers, and US Advisors. How much ground ...

HUMANITY HAS FALLEN. ONLY ONE SHIP CAN SAVE US. After a disastrous encounter with an alien species, Captain Roc Masters finds himself exiled on a rundown station in the asteroid belt, commanding an ancient starship with a near-mutinous crew. Just as he finally resigns himself to his fate, the aliens return to attack Earth. With the inner worlds crumbling and most of the Earth and Martian navies sidelined or destroyed, it's up to Roc and his lone starship to hold the line. He knows he must gather together what little humanity there is beyond the asteroid belt and make a stand against the ...

When an abduction by cartel members along the Arizona border goes horribly wrong, Mitch Kearns is pulled away from his family ranch near Tucson to help track down the suspects. When it’s discovered that the captive is a high-level U.S. government official who holds the key to unlock codes for the Southwest power grid, Mitch and Dev are in a race against time to prevent a catastrophe from unfolding as they battle rival cartel members who each have their own stake in the game.

Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and Zen philosophy. Required reading for any martial artist, business person or student of strategy. Includes the one hour Zen inspired soundtrack The Mysterious Sound of Wind in the Bamboo. Performed on authentic Japanese instruments.

Former combat tracker Mitch Kearns is back in this explosive new thriller from JT Sawyer. This time Mitch is in the U.S. visiting a friend at a secluded home in Colorado. Little do they know that there is a killer in the region who is plotting against them for actions connected with a mantracking case Mitch was involved with a year earlier. With a storm moving in and one of their group dead before nightfall, they must work together to figure out who the traitor is and escape the perilous canyon where they are trapped.

1st Lieutenant Robin Bartlett suddenly found himself at the "repo-depo" in Bien Hoa reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. The unit had more helicopter support than any other unit in Vietnam. Immediate support from artillery, helicopter gunships, and ARA was only minutes away to support a firefight. Wounded troops could be medevaced even in dense jungle using "jungle penetrators." It also meant that Bartlett's platoon could deploy through helicopter combat assaults into hot LZs (landing zones) at a moment's notice if an enemy force had been spotted. And they did.

Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson, the world’s number one best-selling writer, and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down.

It was supposed to be another Gideon business trip abroad… Until the jungle became a battlefield and each shadow concealed a potential enemy. Dev and Mitch head to a remote section of the Philippines to consult with Ryoko Yamada, a past client of Gideon as the woman brokers a deal with the government that will enable her father's Japanese energy firm to begin sustainable production in the Pacific. Only a Yakuza hit-team arrives first and will stop at nothing to bring the Yamada Corporation down. Mitch and Dev plunge into the hunt, pursuing the kill-squad through the jungle to stop them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over one million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past four years, but fewer than 500 from this group have earned a Silver Star, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, or the Medal of Honor. Those who have been awarded these distinguished honors all demonstrated an extraordinary courage under fire in the worst of circumstances.