Have you ever had a dream that was so real that you felt that it was? Follow Daniel J. Wilcox as he travels from dream to dream trying to find his real life. As you read through the pages, the story jumps from one dream world to the next, sometimes returning back to a dream world to revisit. He meets a pair of twins who travel through dream worlds as one would travel to different places on vacation. Their names are Jill and Heidi. They follow Dan from one dream to the next and try to help ...

SAS trooper Dan "Spider" Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, on the trail of a murderous Taliban assassin.Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London in the series written by bestselling author Stephen Leather.Kill Zone is just under 14,000 words long, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times,...

Indomitable: the second in W. C. Bauers's Chronciles of Promise Paen, character-driven military science fiction featuring a female space marine.Promise Paen, captain of Victor Company's mechanized armored infantry, is back for another adventure protecting the Republic of Aligned Worlds.Lieutenant Paen barely survived her last encounter with the Lusitanian Empire. She's returned home to heal. But the nightmares won't stop. And she's got a newly recons...

“Shoot” hollered Willie B. “Where” I screamed. “Shoot, Shoot.” Screamed Willie B. Again. I clicked my rifle from safe to full auto and let it rip in the direction of the tracers from the other two guys. I fired one complete magazine. I had no idea what was happening. I changed magazines. I buried my face in the dirt attempting to make myself invisible. I was terrified. I lie there cowering by hiding my face in the dirt. I had no idea what to do. “Shoot” screamed Willie B. again . My rifle ...

Bob McDaniel grew up hanging over the airport fence. His dream of flying began as a child in a sandbox and propelled him into the clouds. This true story chronicles his journey from a Cessna 150 to supersonic flight and back, covering military operations in war zones and peaceful flights at thirty miles per hour in a powered parachute. His civilian career is covered from his early days working as a lineboy to pay for his flying lessons, to his current position as director of one of the bus...

Who would have imagined a farm boy from Wisconsin would be the greatest air hero of World War II? Richard Bong was an athletic and hard-working boy from northern Wisconsin who dreamed of flying from the first time a plane buzzed low over his family farm. When war broke out, he left behind a life of sports, deer hunting, and farm chores to fly the new P-38 Lightning for the Army Air Force. Stationed in New Guinea, Bong shot down a total of 40 Japanese flyers in under three years - beating t...

Jacob sits stunned in the woods next to his house. A schoolteacher turned guerrilla warfare recruiter explains to him that he just shot dead ten soldiers of an invading army. Jacob is now a hero, but he has also become something else, something he despises - a killer.

In the early 1960’s the Military knew they needed to develop a new method of intelligence gathering in locating the enemy in the jungles of Vietnam. Early attempts at developing a mobile method of interception and location of radio transmissions failed. Some successes occurred prior to the mid-1960’s, but there was no large scale plan on how to develop this into a major project to help win the war in Vietnam. Approval comes in 1966 and the project is named Phyllis Ann. The author becomes a...

Vietnam and Beyond is a collection of wartime letters written home by Jim Markson from March 1967 to March 1968. Jim carried sadness and boxed-up memories from Vietnam. Perhaps, if it were not for the general divided and oppositional public opinion of the Vietnam War at that time, the soldiers returning home might have been able to open up and begin the healing process. Instead, those soldiers returning from Vietnam were afraid to tell their story. These fears bound each soldier to the oth...

A Firesetter Short StoryPractically from his first memory, Ary knew he was destined for the SpaceForce Academy, following in the footsteps of his famous parents. However, attending the Alliance's premier military school was quite a daunting prospect. Fortunately, his sort-of step-sister, Kit would be right by his side. That is, until Kit unexpectedly announces she'd rather try her luck on Broadway. Now, Ary's off to the Academy himself, doing his best not ...

Some things are much largerand more important than the individual.A rural New Mexico boy joins the Marine Corps.These thirty vignettes, each a slice of life, a snapshot, are stories, recollections, histories and confessions. They are truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. I'll let you choose which is which.

Learn to draw all of your favorite military vehicles--step by step! Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Military Machines offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Children will enjoy the 64 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of military vehicles, including the B-52 Bomber, the M1 Abrams Battle Tank, and the stealth fighter jet. The book opens with a br...