Fightin' Army #45

Captain Mike Giles and his tank crew find themselves isolated in a Nazi-controlled village when they roll into Ste. Marie Therese ahead of General Patton's main force—and quickly discover they've blundered straight into a panzer ambush. Rescued by French Resistance fighters who guide them through the sewers, Giles and his men must work with the Maquis to destroy the scattered German tank force before it can launch a devastating counterattack. With damaged equipment and long odds, the Americans and their French allies turn the trap back on the enemy in a desperate race against time.

Arthur Mayzell enlisted as a medic in the Korean War, driven by his ideal of becoming a doctor like his late father and his conviction that saving lives matters more than taking them. When his wounded comrades face capture by enemy forces, the principled young medic must confront the impossible choice between his pacifist convictions and his duty to protect the men depending on him. A powerful story about courage, sacrifice, and the weight of choosing between ideals and survival.

When the Captain falls and Sgt. Judah Oates takes command of Baker Company, he stakes everything on a strategy of patience: dig in, hold the line, and don't give the enemy an inch. Over eight grueling days, his forty-one soldiers face waves of Chinese Communist attacks across the only road south, starving and freezing as they wait for air support that may never come. As the pressure mounts and his men grow desperate, Oates holds firm to his conviction that survival—not glory—is the real measure of a soldier's courage.