Combat Fiction

This year's favored team to win is Annuna, with their S-ranked captain and star player Giant Slayer. Disaster strikes when Giant Slayer is injured and put out for the rest of the season. Leadership of the team falls to the militaristic and cruel vice-captain, Harpy. To complicate matters, the team has to deal with an arrogant new player, dark secrets, and their greatest rival team, Thunder. Can Harpy lead Annuna to the A-rank championship and victory, or will they tear each other apart before the games get the chance? Find out in the first installment of Battle Games!

Dear Enemy is an inspirational novel that transports readers back to the darkest days of World War II. Full of heroism and drama, this story of an American combat nurse shows how the power of faith can overcome any obstacle, even in times of total war.

A recipient of numerous Christian and secular awards, including two Christy Awards for excellence in Christian fiction, acclaimed author Jack Cavanaugh has published more than 20 books.

After the furious battles around Dak To and the horrific fight for Hill 875, Youth in Asia is a new novella of young Americans trapped in the jungles of Vietnam's Central Highlands in a war they did not understand. Youth In Asia relives the friendships, loyalties and betrayals of young men in combat, and for those that survive, the memories they carried home.

The four stories in this audiobook are about nine men that returned to civilian life, after combat in the Korean War. They deal with different degrees of emotional injuries (PTSD) experienced after exposure to seemingly similar combat conditions and also with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The story entitled "MacKenzie and Smith" is a sequel to the military history novel Ice, Fire, and Blood, which relates experiences of a US Army infantry unit from when Chinese troops entered the war, in November 1950, until late summer 1951.

Tutoyant avec aisance, à rebours des modes, une forme classique très maîtrisée, Michel Houellebecq met en scène dans ses poèmes un quotidien contemporain et urbain. Ses vers nous parlent de lui, nous parlent de nous et accèdent à l'universel, installant ainsi leur auteur, comme un Villon de la modernité, au rang des grands poètes populaires.

After spending some time in the realm of Oracle, Lance has started to grow accustomed to his life as a combat mage. Arcwind village has fallen under his protection, his dragonblood abilities continue to evolve, and his budding relationships with the three beautiful arcanists at his side continue to blossom. He has become a living weapon, and even the threat of the mighty Kel’sar clan aren’t enough to shake his draconic confidence. But Lance has a problem.

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.

Ramon was a young man with secrets, and a talent for violence. Born into Spanish nobility, his full given name was Ramon Banu Lasso de la Vega, and as a boy, he dreamed of a life of purpose and acceptance. He dreamed of a peaceful life of family and belonging. It was a dream that would never be fulfilled. The Edge of Nobility is a gritty historical novel that will carry you away to the landscapes of France and Spain in the early 1900s, as Europe became embroiled in World War 1. It was a time when two breeds of men emerged. One that came forward to serve their fellow countrymen as a patriot ...

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 ...

An experimental training program produces a psychokinetic, a man who can move objects by mental power alone. He has other abilities as well. But is he too powerful? What if the Special Talents decide to go their own way?

Une femme militaire qui n'aspire qu'à se venger. Un agent des Forces Spéciales marié, blasé des femmes. Leur rencontre va bouleverser leur vie. Néfertiti a travaillé dur pour préparer sa vengeance. Elle n'a plus qu'un dernier objectif à atteindre : faire partie de l'élite en incorporant les forces spéciales. Dès qu'elle croise le chemin de son instructeur, tout bascule. Ce macho marié, n'est autre que sa flamme jumelle. Va-t-elle réussir à embrasser le destin qu'elle s'est choisie, tout en échappant à cette histoire d'amour impossible ?

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...

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.

They told him to shrink. He chose to suplex society instead. Ricky "Napalm" Stubbs just got fired for body-slamming a vending machine—and that was before the smart scale insulted his BMI in a British accent. Unemployed, overweight, and overwhelmingly pissed off, Ricky creates the Chunky Combat Club: a secret underground league for misfits who are thicc, ticked, and totally over it.

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.

The aliens have arrived, and they’re not friendly.A series of events begins a shocking revelation that will change everything. Strange lights in the night sky, the disappearance of scientists on the verge of a breakthrough -a growing threat emerges from an unknown enemy- and the chosen few who will decide the fate of humanity... Piper never wanted this, but now she's hearing voices- the pleas of her dead brother, telling her to run. Elsner, already down and out, risks destruction investigating a UFO cult. Perry once envisioned a doomsday emergency no one expected, but actually comes true....

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de tout, écrasée et parfois même humiliée par la violence masculine. Son existence semblait délimitée pour toujours par cette double domination, la domination de classe et celle liée à sa condition de femme. Pourtant, un jour, à quarante-cinq ans, elle s'est révoltée contre cette vie, elle a fui et petit à petit elle a constitué sa liberté. Ce livre audio est l'histoire de cette métamorphose.

It's time to clean up their city or die trying. The Remembrance have stepped up the pressure after the Federal Agents of Magic slapped them down hard. There's a bounty on Diana's head, as well as her second in command. Criminals are dying for the chance to collect. And the bad guys have found more artifacts to steal - from the police. The lines are drawn. The battle is at hand. The Black-Ops Agents of Magic are ready.

After the conflict that had spanned a decade, the European Space Union during its consolidation phase, needs to ensure its other borders are secure. In this short story 2/4 Cavalry is sent out to neutralize. While the ESU’s borders are vast, intelligence had pinpointed one safe location for a band of pirates and the unit is sent out to destroy this safe haven.

Echo Among Warriors is a story of close combat between two opposing, equally committed adversaries. The powerful narrative immerses the listener in both sides of the battle, playing and replaying the same battle sequence from alternating viewpoints—through the eyes of the Marines and through the eyes of the North Vietnamese. The bullet fired from a Marine's M-16 at a silhouetted enemy solider will in the next chapter tear into the flesh of that crouched NVA trooper. The story represents just one of perhaps thousands of deadly encounters that reflect the reality of battle.