Army War Heroes #6

Four soldiers on a desperate mission behind enemy lines in northeastern France must locate and capture Colonel Von Karlsbad, a top German strategist, before he can shift the tide of the war. Sergeant Carter volunteers his trusted men for the assignment despite the hundred-to-one odds, and together they slip through the darkness toward their objective—though enemy patrols are already closing in. With only a narrow window of time and constant danger at every turn, these four men discover that survival and success may not be the same thing.

This one-page war chronicle traces the evolution of combat tactics across a century—from the cavalry charges of the Spanish-American War through the mechanized horrors of World War II—before arriving at the pivotal moment of August 5, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and fundamentally altered the nature of warfare forever. A meditation on how each major conflict reshapes military strategy, "The Bomb!" underscores how innovation and technology have relentlessly transformed the face of war.

A newly commissioned second lieutenant is transferred to a platoon that despises him, blaming him for the deaths of fellow soldiers—and when he's ordered across an open field under German fire, they're willing to let him die. But as the bullets fly and he realizes his men might be killed by the very gun position he's been sent to silence, something shifts between them, and he discovers what it takes to earn a soldier's respect.

PFC Joe Doakes, battle-worn and bracing for another assault, watches his commanding general issue orders from the safety of a tent—orders that could cost him everything. As the soldier moves toward the guns, the stark contrast between a frontline fighter and the officer who never has to face the consequences of his own commands cuts right to the heart of war's brutal inequities. "One Had It Easy" is a sharp, unflinching look at the weight of command and the men who bear it.

Chuck Waters, a young soldier who's always resisted the idea of war, finds himself stationed in the Philippines under his own father's command—a situation that brings both longing reunion and painful complications. As Chuck struggles with the weight of combat and the scrutiny that comes with having a commanding officer for a dad, he faces a moment that will force him to confront everything he believed about himself and the man he's always admired.