Battlefield Action #34

Sergeant Jim Kessler and his tank crew execute a daring plan to breach the heavily fortified Nazi position at Nightmare Mountain in southern France—deliberately disabling their tank to slip past enemy artillery and infiltrate the mountainside. Under cover of darkness, Kessler's men scout the enemy gun placements and call in air support to neutralize a hidden concrete bunker, clearing the way for the armored division stalled behind them. The mission succeeds, but at a cost that no commendation can ease.

Colonel Bill Baldwin has spent years stuck behind a desk in the supply corps, endlessly boasting about his glory days in the First World War—until the invasion of France finally gives him a chance at the combat action he's craved. When a massive German counter-offensive erupts in December 1944, Baldwin and his hastily trained supply troops are thrown into the thick of the Ardennes fighting, and the Colonel must prove whether his wartime swagger matches his battlefield mettle. It's a tale of an old soldier's hunger for glory tested against the brutal reality of modern warfare.

Eight American soldiers lost in the French Alps during winter 1944 encounter a mysterious Frenchman on horseback who claims to be—or appears to be—Napoleon Bonaparte himself. When he rallies them to destroy a Nazi tank and guides them toward a German withdrawal route, the soldiers follow the enigmatic figure deeper into dangerous territory, unsure whether their guide is real, a ghost, or something far stranger.