Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...

Durante su tercera misión en Iraq, el soldado estadounidense Logan Thibault encuentra la fotografía de una joven sonriente medio enterrada en la arena del desierto. En la base, nadie la reclama y él acaba guardándola. De repente Logan empieza a tener suerte. De vuelta a EE. UU., Logan buscará a la mujer retratada pero desde luego no se espera a la persona fuerte pero vulnerable con la que se topa en Hampton, Carolina del Norte. La atracción...

In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence...

Colee, TK and Cheever are three soldiers who return home from the Iraq War after suffering injuries. They learn that life has moved on without them. The three end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. Colee is on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family. TK is seeking the confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury threatens his sexual function. Cheever is a middle-aged man who is planning to hit the casinos in...

Forced to lead a makeshift Dark Ages army against the demonic Deadites who possess all the deadly magic of Hell, the shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed, reluctant 20th century time traveler Ash must save the living from the dead, rescue his medieval girlfriend, and get back to his own time.

"El soldado ha visto mucho: motines terroristas, punas inhóspitas, fronteras sinuosas. En esta experiencia descubre el motivo para convertirse en escritor. Tiempo después, recibe el mensaje de un desconocido, Aquiles, quien le pide que lo escuche. Aquiles era un niño cuando fue secuestrado por Sendero Luminoso. Vivía en una pequeña comunidad en el río Perené de la cual fue arrancado e incorporadoa la gran masa. Durante años será empleado...

A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories.

When all communication with a remote military base situated in an area of intense guerrilla activity is lost, a unit of soldiers is sent on a mission to regain contact with their brothers-in-arms. Fearing the base has been taken over by enemy forces, they arrive to find the place littered with corpses and the walls daubed with blood and what appear to be magical symbols intended to ward off evil.

Focuses on Master Chief's mysterious origins, the Spartans' advanced combat capabilities and the tense rivalry between the Spartans and the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. Dynamically depicted are humankind's ongoing battles with the Covenant.

Deunan and Briareos, find their partnership tested by the arrival of Tereus who resembles Briareos before the war injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. Together they face threats from Cyborg terrorism, nanotech zealots, and rioting citizens.