Fighting War Stories #4

Sergeant "Battle" Flagg of the 107th Infantry Regiment earns a brutal reputation when reporters Joe Carlson and Sue Davis arrive to document George Company—but what they initially portray as primitive bullying is revealed as something far different when combat comes to the line. As Flagg risks everything to save the very man who wrote a damning exposé about him, both the reporters and his own men discover the hard truth behind his relentless training methods. A gritty Korean War tale that trades easy judgment for hard-won understanding.

Sergeant Todd Clay arrives at the front lines of Iwo Jima in 1945, terrified but sustained by his friend Jim Darnell—until a moment of panic costs Darnell his life, and Clay is branded a coward by the men around him. Years later, promoted to lieutenant in Korea, Clay discovers that Darnell's brother Steve now serves under him, and the young corporal's resentment over Jim's death becomes a test of whether Clay can prove himself worthy of the heroism others mistakenly granted him.

When newly-landed Marines begin fighting to encircle Seoul during the Korean War, hot-headed Top Sergeant Bull Nelson earns a fearsome reputation—but his relentless, cutting methods hide a harder truth about his own younger brother, Dick, also serving in the ranks. As the company digs in near Chosin and faces a massive Chinese assault, the brothers find themselves cut off and surrounded, forced to make a desperate nighttime escape that will test everything Bull has tried to teach Dick about survival and manhood.

When Private Timothy Rutledge arrives as a replacement soldier at the brutal Battle of Bunker Hill in Korea, his fellow G.I.s quickly notice he's a man apart—isolated, rejecting friendship, and driven by something darker than military duty. As the fighting intensifies, his reckless courage in combat earns him respect from the men he refuses to befriend, while Captain Kennedy digs into the mystery of why Rutledge's name never appeared on the replacement roster. When wounded men find themselves pinned down by enemy fire with no way out, Rutledge's true nature—and the secret he's been carrying—finally comes into focus.