Battlefield Action #26

A soldier drafted into the Korean War learns that survival sometimes means compromising everything you believe in. When Corporal Hartmann is captured and subjected to psychological manipulation by enemy intelligence officers, he finds himself making statements he never thought possible—statements that will haunt him far more than any battlefield wound. Written with unflinching honesty, "I Betray..." explores what happens when a man desperate to save himself discovers the true cost of betrayal.

Major Niles Borden leads a hand-picked team of twelve elite soldiers on a suicide mission to Med Island, a heavily fortified German stronghold off the coast of southern France that stands between the Allies and a crucial invasion of Europe. With help from local French resistance fighters and the mayor who knows the island's secrets, Borden's men must scale two-hundred-foot cliffs under cover of moonlight and infiltrate enemy defenses to neutralize the massive guns that guard the beaches. The odds are brutal, but the liberation of France depends on their success.

Sgt. Cooley has spent eleven years in the regular army scheming for rank, so when Brig. Gen. Streeter arrives to inspect the outfit and a firefight erupts, Cooley finally sees his shot—he throws caution to the wind and earns himself a commission as a second lieutenant. Now commanding his own platoon, the career officer balances his ambition with his tactical know-how, but when Nazi tanks pin his men down and orders come to hold the line at any cost, Cooley must decide whether his calculated self-interest can coexist with genuine leadership in the heat of battle.