Stephen Harding

May 1945. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission....

In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back....

This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true - a thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo...

On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack....

On August 18, 1945, US Army Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death above Tokyo. Marchione had the dubious distinction of being the last American killed in World War II combat....