Battle Cry #19

A hardened veteran named Len Kling struggles to hide the toll combat has taken on him when a fresh young replacement joins Baker Company, prompting Len to shield the kid from danger at every turn—until a sergeant reveals the painful truth behind his protective anger. In this 1955 war story, Len's haunted expression and relentless experience in the field become a stark lesson in what war really costs, and what the recruit will eventually have to become.

A young recruit yearns to prove himself a man by donning a soldier's uniform, but when the Confederate Army finally accepts him, he discovers that warfare demands far more than the pride he felt putting on the gray coat. As battles rage and the tide of war turns grim, the boy learns what it truly means to be a soldier when a Union ambush tests everything he thought he understood about courage and manhood.

During the German breakthrough at the Bulge, a lone G.I. named Desmond discovers that enemy soldiers dressed as Americans are infiltrating American lines—and he's stumbled right into their midst. Forced to think fast, he commandeers a jeep and triggers a desperate chain of events that turns the Germans' own confusion and firepower against them. In the chaos of war, disguise becomes both weapon and shield, and Desmond learns that sometimes survival means holding onto what nearly cost him his life.