A young sergeant, recovered from battle against Rommel’s Afrika Korps, is appointed leader of a dozen know-it-all draftees being poured into the Army’s replacement pool. He toughens them into an effective team. As they land at Utah Beach, the Wehrmacht hands out its own bloody lessons. In minutes, one is dead and a second wounded, the onset of a pitiless 10-month ordeal. In horrific combat from Normandy through the Bulge to the Elbe River, they learn to defeat a skilled and hardened enemy. All pay a steep price.

Brought To Battle: A Novel of World War II (The American Soldier Series)

Literature & Fiction

Payne, J Scott

Genre Fiction

Argon Press

Brad Powers, retired Army intelligence investigator, just wanted to be a police detective in a quiet town. Though denied the job, he solves the community's 20-year-old murder mystery anyway. Soon after the police chief rejects his work application, Powers begins a slow inadvertent stumble into the intertwined lives of two women: Carlene, a predator, and Myra, her prey. Powers befriends Myra who's unhappily married to a marathon philanderer. He rescues her from an attempted kidnapping. Then Myra's jailed assailant makes bail and is killed in exactly the same way he father was murdered 20 years earlier. Investigating, Powers is surprised to learn Myra is wealthy and even more surprised to stumble upon some very tangled relationships. Myra's husband manages the industrial firm which Myra's murdered father owned years before. The widowed father's murder occurred after he wed his own teenage secretary, Carlene, the predator with whom Myra's hubby now is in a permanent tryst. As Powers unravels the mystery's disjointed strands, he discovers Carlene and Myra's husband go way back to the housing projects of Philadelphia. Then a bewildered Myra tells Powers that her endowment trust seems to have far less money than it ought. As if that weren't enough, Powers is injured in an attempt on his own life. But though briefly hospitalized, he draws upon his resources to uncover fraud, theft and police corruption and the reason for the murder which started it all.

One, Two Three Strikes You're Dead: A Brad Powers Mystery (1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

J. Scott Payne LLC

The gritty story of Midwestern unfortunates drawing the shortest stick of World War II. Picture Michigan and Wisconsin National Guardsmen plunging into thick jungle and fetid malarial swamps. Spearheading General Douglas MacArthur’s inept first offensive in New Guinea, they supposedly were attacking starving, diseased push-overs. Instead, Japanese veterans outnumbered and outgunned the GIs … who themselves were starving and succumbing to malaria. Meanwhile, their ferocious adversaries were quite at home in the jungle. How did they prevail? Read how the Aussies, a fearless commander and tough NCOs pulled them through. In the end, they became expert warriors who racked up more combat time than any other American division.

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