Caught up in Civil War fervor and seeking excitement, Joe enlists in his hometown regiment. This sturdy Pennsylvania lumberjack quickly discovers that, along with excitement and comradeship, fighting the Confederacy means suffering plus danger and terror .

A Corporal No More: A Novel of the Civil War (The American Soldier Series)

Literature & Fiction

Payne, Mr. J. Scott

Genre Fiction

Argon Press

Sergeant Charlie Riegle is disgusted that 8th Army in Japan is little more than a sexreation program. Commanders order the force to shape up, but it’s still ill-prepared when called upon to blunt the murderous communist invasion of South Korea. As a veteran infantry NCO, Riegle helps poorly armed and heavily outnumbered GIs defend the Pusan Perimeter. Later, he leads reconnaissance missions into North Korea and its Siberian winter. He earns a battlefield commission as masses of Chinese "volunteers" enter the war and combat sweeps south, then north and back again in that tortured peninsula.

Chosun: A Novel Of The Korean War (The American Soldier Series)

Action & Adventure

Independently published

A gritty and gut-wrenching story of Midwestern unfortunates who drew the shortest stick of World War II. Told through the eyes of an infantry private, these men were the first U.S. Army division sent into combat. And they had the misfortune to be the spearhead of General Douglas MacArthur's first and inept offensive against the Japanese in New Guinea. Told they would face a push-over - a starving, sickened enemy -- the green 32nd Infantry Division found itself outnumbered and outgunned by veteran Japanese troops, adversaries of unparalleled tenacity quite at home and willing to die in New Guinea's impenetrable jungles and fetid malarial swamps. In the end, the 32nd logged more days of combat than any other American division.

The Green Hell: A Novel of World War II

In this sequel to "The Green Hell," U.S. Army Master Sergeant Jim Mays is hospitalized in Australia to recover from jungle rot, malaria and shrapnel wounds sustained in New Guinea. By accident he meets a war industry worker grieving the loss of her fianc . Mays, Suzanne and Suzanne's 9-year-old ward strike up a friendship, each helping the others cope with the sorrow of their wartime losses. Romance begins to flourish between the two adults, but must go on hold when an odd-ball hero recruits Jim and two of his comrades. Their mission is to train and lead volunteers in a secret reconnaissance unit operating behind Japanese lines. Their captain, a German by birth and a decorated U.S. Army hero, teaches them how to survive the jungle during long-term reconnaissance operations. They also learn to defeat Japanese tactics.They put their training to use first in the continuing New Guinea campaign. They probe behind Japanese supply lines, ambushing outposts and disrupting enemy communications and logistics. They move on to employ those same tactics in the even more hostile environments of Leyte and Luzon as the Army goes head-to-head against the Japanese to liberate the Philippine Islands.Though the recon unit usually outmaneuvers the enemy, combat sometimes is unavoidable. Thus must cope with the the steady loss of buddies and eventually even his commander. He and the survivors carry on through the final - and most brutal and costly -- stages of the conflict which continues for weeks even after Japan officially surrenders.

The Trail Through Hell: A Novel of the Army's Pacific Victory

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A Corporal No More: A Novel of the Civil War (The American Soldier Series)

Chosun: A Novel Of The Korean War (The American Soldier Series)

The Green Hell: A Novel of World War II

The Trail Through Hell: A Novel of the Army's Pacific Victory