G.I. Combat #21

When a routine military maneuver in Greenland goes terribly wrong, Colonel Higgins and the Fighting 59th discover that enemy forces have established a secret base on American soil—and they're planning an H-bomb assault on the United States. Cut off from their radio and vastly outnumbered, the regiment must use hit-and-run tactics and a desperate gambit to stop the Communist invasion before it's too late.

Pat Riley, a raw Marine replacement, discovers he possesses an almost supernatural gift for survival as shells and bullets rain down around him during a brutal Communist assault. While his astonished buddies watch their new squad mate walk through impossible odds unscathed, Riley's seemingly charmed existence becomes the unit's most valuable asset in a desperate fight to hold their ground. When Lady Luck finally pushes him to take the fight to the enemy, the entire battle turns on a single soldier's unflinching courage.

When Captain Pappy Larson's supply platoon is ambushed by guerrillas on a treacherous mountain path in the South Pacific, an avalanche cuts the force down to just twelve men—stranded on a barren ridge overlooking enemy territory. Desperate for cover, the soldiers spot shell craters arranged like a baseball diamond, and Larson transforms their desperate stand into a twisted game, directing his men to use baseball strategy and tactics to hold off wave after wave of attacking guerrillas. It's a story that turns the former big-league manager's lifelong dream of commanding a championship team into a fight for survival, where every "base run" and "defensive play" is a matter of life and death.

In "One Man Army," a regimental messenger with a past as a race car driver can't resist the thrill of speed, even in the midst of war. His reckless instincts soon push him from the relative safety of his dispatch duties into the heart of the front lines, where old habits might be his greatest asset—or his undoing.