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Last Stand: Battle Group SS is an account of an epic last stand at the end of WWII. The inhabitants of a small town attempt to fight the Russian hordes as they rampage toward them. They prepare to fight what every man knows will be a battle to the death. One that will go down in history as a shining example of bravery and sacrifice, and perhaps mitigate some of the worst excesses of the Nazi regime. 

The Syrians have started to annihilate the Kurdish population of Al Rai. The town is under siege from a squadron of T-55 tanks, and the people are dying. They have no means of defending themselves, except for three obsolete Second World War tanks they purchased from a defunct museum. Special Operations: Grant’s Armor is a must-listen epic which tells the story of tough, violent men fighting against a vicious and determined enemy in the Middle East, a harsh, hostile environment and an enemy who is no less harsh or hostile. 

Vietnam in 1968 is a hotbed of turmoil and death. Some as a result of the war, others not. Some are planned assassinations yet to happen. A C-130 transport aircraft flying close to the DMZ crashes in deep jungle. The aircraft was carrying a squad of army CID experts on a confidential mission to investigate rumors of a planned assassination of the Saigon president, yet the investigation ended when the crash resulted in the deaths of all aboard.

The day after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy joins the US 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, and soon volunteers for the newly formed US Rangers. He takes part in the bloody attack on the French Channel port of Dieppe. The furious German defense results in hundreds of Allied deaths, yet Murphy makes it back to continue training for the invasion of France, codenamed Operation Overlord. Their orders are to land at Omaha Beach, scale the cliffs, and destroy the gun batteries at Pointe du Hoc.

Six years since the A Shau Valley incident, and the Ky Lan is back. Contact has been lost with a secret military facility on the Vietnamese island of Con Son. The final transmission is just a few broken words. They are being hunted. There have been rumours of this creature for years, with the stories covered up and buried to hide the terrible truth. As the country collapses from within it falls to an elite unit made up of special forces, military specialists, and others to return to the island to rescue any remaining survivors.

An old enemy, a Russian GRU colonel, is out for revenge against Army Ranger Lieutenant Jack Grant’s unit. The Rangers humiliated him when they successfully defended a Kurdish village from a Russian chemical attack. Now the Russian wants payback for his humiliation. He has the perfect weapon. A nerve agent which will deliver a slow and lingering death. Action is needed to destroy it, yet bureaucratic delays mean the Pentagon and CIA response is taking too long. For Grant, the only honorable course is to take action before it is too late.

Newly minted Army Ranger Lieutenant Jack Grant joins a mission to take down the Taliban’s elite sniper, but things go wrong from the start.

Eddie Hawkins, Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner, is good at his work. Some say the best in the business, although he still has plenty of demons to fight. Doubts about his ability still bug him, and things get worse with the arrival of a new platoon lieutenant determined to make his mark. No matter what the cost in men and morale.

US Army Private William Richards faces an experienced regiment of North Vietnamese regulars in the mountainous of the A Sau Valley. They have fortified the area for a determined stand and as the battle begins, both sides take heavy losses. But in the middle of this carnage lies an unknown and unseen horror. Something from the ancient past has risen deep inside the jungle. Powerful and deadly, it strikes without warning, leaving death and destruction in its path.

American aircraft are going down, victim to missile batteries hidden deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, and they bring in an Air Force expert, Colonel Dan Carter, to analyze the defenses and devise a strategy to destroy them. Yet, the Vietcong gets wind of the colonel’s arrival, and plan to murder him. Joe Cooper, Air Cav, returns from an abortive mission to grab an important and high-ranking North Vietnamese. A mission gives MACV an idea to protect their expert.

US Army Warrant Officer Carl Yeager, on his second tour of Vietnam, reaches Khe Sanh in late January 1968. His mission is to arrest an ARVN officer, guilty of murder and selling stolen weapons to the Vietcong. Things start to go wrong when the aircraft on which is due to fly back with the prisoner to Tan Son Nhut, outside Saigon, is destroyed by enemy shellfire. The shells do more than damage the aircraft. They uncover the body of an American officer in a hastily dug grave.

Jack "Tinlegs" Taylor is a former elite Navy SEAL platoon leader; the best of the best. Recovering from the wounds that ended his career, he returns home to Boston to find a city under siege. A violent Arab businessman is forcing people out of their homes so he can profit from their redevelopment. Payoffs to a local cop mean there is no one to stop the war he has declared on many of the city’s residents.

Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner Eddie Hawkins enjoys his work, and he is good at it. His other passion is first-person shooters. Stationed in Afghanistan, Eddie has a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun, after an initial shaky start. Life is good for Pfc Hawkins, until the night the Taliban arrive at Bagram. Eddie recognized a hostile when he sees one, and he does not hesitate to open fire on a vehicle inside the Bagram perimeter fence. Yet the vehicle escapes, and the Afghan’s stationed at Bagram insist he shot at one of theirs.

Pfc Eddie Hawkins has two passions in life. First-person shooters and his job as a cupola gunner in a Humvee in Afghanistan. His weapon is a Browning .50 calibre, and Eddie has acquired a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun. It wasn’t always that way, but after a shaky start, he has learned how to handle the gun like an expert. There is no looking back. But Hawkins is about to face his biggest challenge yet. On patrol near the Afghan city of Ghazni, they run into a strong force of Taliban.

The war is heating up, and they have no time for R&R before the Hueys take off and carry them to their next mission. A Vietcong fortified town in the Mekong Delta, a stronghold heavily defended by troops and heavy weapons. The Cav’s job is to go in, take the town and locate and destroy the enemy. To give the VC a hard, brutal lesson they will never forget.

Army Ranger Sergeant Jack Grant is in deep trouble. A blazing attack on Bagram Airbase and a brutal boxing bout against a monstrous opponent have left him wounded and badly beaten. But more trouble is on its way. A court martial looms based on trumped-up charges, and with it the threat of a long spell of imprisonment. Battling enemies from both sides, Grant’s troubles escalate when he is falsely accused of attacking an infantry officer. The base commander, General Weathers, offers Grant a way out.

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up by an intelligence major. As if it couldn’t be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.

Unfairly convicted of helping a killer in a drug-related hit, Jack Grant faces five long years in the pen. Except the judge offers him an alternative, a chance to make a difference. Grant joins the infantry, and on the 11th of September 2001, the planes hit the World Trade Center. Soon after, they ship out for Afghanistan. Grant’s unit is tasked with guarding Bagram Airbase. A safe assignment, where his worst enemy is a vindictive platoon lieutenant. That’s until the Taliban mounts a massive attack on the airbase.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying master sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame Hawkins. Held in contempt by his crew, the next operation offers him a chance to put things right. Except the same master sergeant has command of his platoon.