This is a fictional novel about a family from Sweden who immigrated to Wisconsin in the early 1900s. The fourth-generation grandson becomes a well-decorated Navy SEAL. He is wounded in combat, and thanks to an invention by his father, he becomes a medical miracle. He has vision-related powers that allows him to do incredible things. He becomes a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. He takes hundreds of millions from casinos and uses that money to build a wounded warrior's village. It is called Jake's Place, named after a fallen comrade. Jake's Place houses and employs all disabled vets. The village is completely owned and operated by the disabled vets, and you must be a wounded warrior to reside in the village. It's a thrilling fictional novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. It's packed full of suspense, tragedy, heroism, sex, murder, terrorism, and revenge. You will not be able to put this book down.
A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elite, go-anywhere commandos—as told by one of their own. “Deeply researched, well organized, and incredibly engaging . . . This is our legacy with all the warts, the challenges, and the heroics in one concise volume.”—Admiral William H. McRaven, #1 New York Times bestselling author and former commander, United States Special Operations Command How did the US Navy—the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans—ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa? Behind the SEALs’ improbable rise lies the most remarkable underdog story in American military history—and in these pages, former Navy SEAL Benjamin H. Milligan captures it as never before. Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, By Water Beneath the Walls is the tale of the unit’s heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But it’s also the story of the forging of American special operations as a whole—and how the SEALs emerged from the fires as America’s first permanent commando force when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role. Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALs’ frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of interservice rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALs’ evolution. In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commando—even as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy. Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counterterrorism that would define them for decades to come. Now required reading throughout the US special operations community, By Water Beneath the Walls is an essential history of the SEAL teams, a crackling account of desperate last stands and unforgettable characters accomplishing the impossible—and a riveting epic of the dawn of American special operations.
A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.
Based on a Scottish folktale that is known to be several centuries old. Several versions of the tale of a seal who turns into a woman have inspired this version.
