Ricky Balona

By Blood Spilt - Steele's Death March (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Sergeant Steele stands on the ramparts of the Citadel in Lang Son, watching with growing unease as Japanese troops patrol the narrow streets and artillery points menacingly at his small French Foreign Legion unit. Under the uneasy truce between the French Vichy government and Japanese forces in Indochina, tensions are about to erupt into all-out war.

On March 9, 1945, the Japanese launched a coup d'état, Meigo Sakusen (Operation Bright Moon), attacking French garrisons across the country as Japan faced inevitable defeat in World War II. Despite Steele's warnings, senior French officers enter a deadly trap at a Japanese-hosted dinner, leaving Steele and his battle-hardened troops to resist overwhelming odds.

Witnessing the massacre of prisoners along the riverbanks, Steele's unit must fight through Japanese lines to link up with surviving French units at Son La and Dien Bien Phu. Separated from the main column, Steele leads his men through enemy territory, battling hunger, disease, and dense jungle, while pursued by relentless Japanese forces.

Their mission: hold off the Japanese long enough for French Regulars and civilians to escape to China.

Based on historical facts and firsthand survivor accounts, this novel vividly depicts the brutal Japanese coup and the Legionnaires' extraordinary courage. Steele's eternal feud with his nemesis, Jeannow leading a Japanese unitadds another layer of peril. As gunfire erupts ahead, Steele wonders how many of his men will make it to China. The march to safety has begun, and it will be one hell of a journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ricky Balona
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386534204
• Artikelnr.: 52820131

Autorenporträt

Ricky Balona is the author of hard hitting and graphic military fiction novels. Steele is a military fiction series centered on the character Sergeant Steele. It charts Steele's experience as a Templar during the Crusades where he is cursed to an eternity of military servitude. We follow Sergeant Steele's battles in the French Foreign Legion, all based on some of the Legion's most epic and bloody battles.

French Foreign Legion Adventures is collection of short stories beginning with the Legion's involvement in the Crimean war through the North African desert era, W.W.1 and W.W.2 through Indochina and Kolwezi and Sarajevo. Written from a simple soldiers point of view caught up in merciless combat using the names of fellow Legionnaires I had the honour of serving with as the characters in the stories.

Ricky Balona was born in South Africa, now living in Queenstown, New Zealand.
Served in 1 Para S.A.D.F and 5 years in 2 Parachute Regiment of the French Foreign Legion. Author of By Blood Spilt series Steele's Dien Bien Phu, Steele's Verdun and Steele's Death March.

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