War Heroes #25

A hard-bitten infantry captain tears a group of reluctant rear-echelon clerks from their warm office and drags them into combat—but when they flee in a jeep toward Paris, they stumble straight into a German ambush that forces them to make a stand. With nothing but captured weapons and raw nerve, these reluctant soldiers have to decide whether they'll keep running or find the courage to hold the line against overwhelming odds.

A tank crew leading Patton's Third Army advance encounters a formidable German Panther tank lurking near Ste. Maire, and when their initial assault proves ineffective, they must find an ingenious way to neutralize the threat before it can ambush the rest of their squadron. With the enemy closing in and radio contact critical, the crew of "Lonely Lulu" improvises a desperate plan to turn the tables on their heavily armored opponent.

A civilian seaman joins a convoy bound for Murmansk in October 1942, knowing his cargo ship faces brutal odds against Nazi U-boats and long-range bombers in the icy North Atlantic. As the journey unfolds across thousands of miles and weeks of constant danger, Nicholas Alascia watches ships go down and crews lost to the freezing water, yet presses forward on a mission he'll have to repeat again and again. This is the quiet, unglamorous story of an unsung hero of World War II.

Two A-1E Skyraider pilots go down in a narrow valley during a bombing run in Vietnam, only to discover the Viet Cong have deliberately let them live—as bait to draw more American aircraft into a deadly trap. When a Special Forces officer realizes what's happening, he turns the tables on the enemy, using the downed pilots as the focal point of a coordinated counter-strike that catches the Viet Cong in their own ambush. It's a tense story of survival and tactical ingenuity in the heat of combat.