Battle Report #4

Sergeant Coy Fuller is a career soldier who believes in forging his men through rigorous training, and when his platoon deploys to Korea, they finally understand why his demanding ways kept them alive. When Fuller's squad encounters a minefield during their advance, the sergeant and his men must work together to clear a path—but as enemy artillery intensifies the situation spirals into a desperate fight for survival. Fuller's years of preparation face their ultimate test as he leads his soldiers through one of the fiercest battles of their lives.

Happy Joyce draws the ire of Sergeant Tupper with his carefree attitude and KP duty assignments, but when a landing party heads to shore, the sarge's tough lessons about keeping a knife close become unexpectedly vital. Stranded and under fire during a beach assault, Happy must use every trick he's learned to survive enemy searchlights, machine gun fire, and a desperate push inland to help his trapped comrades.

Floyd Gibbons, America's top newspaper reporter, gets the assignment of a lifetime when his editor sends him to Europe as a war correspondent in 1917—but Gibbons has a bold, dangerous idea of his own. Rather than sail safely with the German ambassador, he books passage on a British ship crossing the U-boat-infested North Atlantic, betting that witnessing a torpedo attack firsthand will make the story of a lifetime. When his gamble pays off in the most harrowing way possible, Gibbons finds himself in a lifeboat fighting alongside passengers and crew to survive the sinking of the Laconia.

Barry Gould risks his platoon's lives to save a wounded carrier pigeon during a firefight, but his impulsive rescue leads to an unexpected discovery—the bird is carrying a critical message. When Charley Company finds itself cut off from command with no way to communicate, Gould and his feathered find become their only hope of getting word back to base before enemy forces overwhelm them.