J Allen Clary

Witness the harrowing adventures of a young man of 17 as he stumbles his way through World War II. Beginning his military life in North Africa, March, 1943, his journey takes him across the deserts of Algeria, into France, and into the worst winter battle American troops had ever experienced, the Battle of the Bulge. A winter offensive meant to deal a heavy blow to the allied armies, and hand the initiative in the west back to the Germans.

"You can almost smell the enemy in this WWII actioner ... Clary tells the adventure as if you were standing next to him." - William R. Burkett, Jr, Shadow of a Soldier A handpicked squad of men, Gunny's Marines struggle through an intensely hot and humid, Japanese infested Pacific jungle code named Boogeyman Island. After a successful mission and a harrowing departure from the island, the boys of Baker squad were on-route to their next mission when disaster struck the submarine they were traveling on. When they regained consciousness, the Marines found themselves marooned on an island smack-dab in the middle of the largest concentration of Japanese forces in a tri-island area: New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville. Their situation was dire, but Gunnery Sergeant Alistair Baker still had a couple of aces up his sleeve; his two scouts. Highly skilled trackers, they were also as silent as ghosts, and as invisible to the Japanese warriors as death's stalker.