Corporal Mark Allen Rogers, a young man, stands his ground as the enemy attacks and most of his platoon flee the onslaught. As a reward for his heroism, he is sent to the Officer Candidate School where he learns the ropes of being an officer. There he meets another soldier, Cynthia Street, and because they are from the same brigade, they become friends.Returned to the fleet, he is assigned as a platoon leader, taking command of a unit that had been engaged in combat operations. On ...

On the outside, Mick Angel is a happy young soldier with his whole life ahead of him. But on the inside, he's afraid of being killed in combat, just like the other riflemen in his squad.Set during World War Two, in the European Theater of Operations, this novel tells the story of Sergeant Angel's combat crusade against the Nazi Wermacht. It begins in the North Africa desert, fighting General Rommel's Afrika Corps, and ends in a French cow pasture in July 1944.Follo...

Suppose you have participated in a great battle at the edge of the Solar System that you believed had been a huge defeat for the invading aliens from the Deneb Star System. But suppose, when you returned to the Combined Headquarters on Mars, everyone believed the battle had been lost. The senior officers told you that, the after-action reports reflected that and the history, as it was written, confirmed that. But you, as on officer who had been there, knew better.This was something...

A powerful true-to-life novel set in the jungle hell of Vietnam! Perfect for fans of Andrew Watts, L. T. Ryan, Don Keith, and George Wallace.Captain Gerber's team take on the Soviet Spetsnaz in North Vietnam . . .Vietnam, 1968—United States Air Force reconnaissance photos appear to show a newly built POW camp close to the Demilitarized Zone.US Army Special Forces Captain Mack Gerber and Master Sergeant Anthony B. Fetterman are sent...

A stark account of the siege of Khe Sanh—one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War! Perfect for fans of Andrew Watts, L. T. Ryan, Don Keith, and George Wallace.US Marines battle for Vietnam's vital hilltop base . . .Vietnam, 1968—The combat base at Khe Sanh comes under siege.Bombarded by rocket and mortar attack, six thousand US Marines fight to hold the hilltop garrison against twenty thousand NVA troops.As the enemy...

Tunnel warfare in Vietnam! Perfect for fans of Andrew Watts, L. T. Ryan, Don Keith, and George Wallace.Captain Gerber leads a Special Forces team on a top-secret mission . . .Vietnam, 1968—A US military Intelligence officer discovers the enemy has a stronghold deep inside Nui Ba Den, the Black Virgin Mountain. Inside is an extensive subterranean network of tunnels and caves being used by the NVA to store equipment and weapons.US Ar...

Unable to operate under its own power, the GSC Light-Destroyer Perry is to be transported back to Earth for necessary repairs. A Board of Inquiry will conduct an investigation into the events that transpired along the Clidepp Border. Lieutenant (jg) Sydnee Marcola has acquitted herself with honor and distinction, but she fears the Board may not appreciate some of the tactics she employed in carrying out her duty.As the Perry nears Earth, rebels fighting the Clidepp Empire oligarchy ar...

An Army medic and Silver Star recipient shares a visceral firsthand account of D-Day in this acclaimed, New York Times bestselling WWII memoir.At five a.m. on June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert stood on the deck of a troopship off the coast of Normandy, France, awaiting the signal to board the landing craft that would take him and so many others to meet their fate on Omaha Beach. Spotting his brother Bill, who served beside him throughout th...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave ...

Legions of Orion is the first book in the epic 'Nexus' series, part of the growing Star Crusades universe that chronicles humanity's first steps away from Alpha Centauri and beyond.A chance discovery on the jungle world of Hyperion leads Alliance scientists on a path to creating a permanent spacebridge to the distant Orion Nebula. In a matter of days, great fleets of military and civilian ships depart for the single greatest expedition since the colonisation of Alpha Centauri. Into...

With "shattering prose," the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal ( San Francisco Chronicle).In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jone...

For a thousand years, humanity’s empire ruled the stars. Now it rots from within. A dynasty despised as illegitimate has bled the realm dry, and its latest sovereign—a mad empress—drives the Fleet into civil war. Admirals rebel. Generals turn traitor. Sibling fights sibling as the empire tears itself apart.With the Navy shattered, the frontier lies exposed. From the galactic badlands, barbarian hordes surge forward—hard men and harder worlds, bred on violence and hunger. They plund...