Fightin' Army #64

Tanker Shay finds himself saddled with another green 90-day wonder—a fresh-faced lieutenant more interested in military protocol than survival—just as his squad gets pinned down behind Nazi lines. When the new officer's by-the-book attitude threatens to get them all killed, Tanker has to teach this young platoon leader a hard lesson about the difference between Army regulation and staying alive in combat.

A Special Forces lieutenant on patrol encounters a deadly game of cat and mouse with Viet-Cong guerrillas hiding in Vietnamese rice paddies and villages—armed only with modern training and the quick thinking of his local allies. When a fortified village falls under enemy control, he must call in reinforcements and lead an assault to drive out the Communist raiders before they can terrorize the civilian population. Ambush In A Rice Paddy captures the tense, unpredictable nature of counterinsurgency warfare in 1965 Vietnam, where danger lurks beneath the water and inside every structure.

A bow gunner in a tank crew faces the ultimate test of nerve when his unit is ordered to hold a vital road against advancing Communist armor during the Korean War—trapped inside steel and fire, with no choice but to man his gun and keep the enemy from breaking through to the infantry dug in behind them. When a direct hit from enemy fire strikes the turret, the crew discovers that panic is deadlier than any shell, and that staying cool under fire is what separates survival from disaster. It's a raw look at what it takes to do your job when you're locked in a steel trap with nowhere to run.

That First Day follows a replacement soldier joining a rifle company in combat Italy, 1944, where surviving veterans attempt to teach hard-won lessons about staying alive—even if it means using him as bait to draw enemy fire. As the sergeant puts it, the last two replacements didn't make it through their first day, but this one might have something going for him. By nightfall, the recruit has learned the most valuable lesson of all: how much he still has to survive.