Myke Cole books

Myke Cole is an American author, military veteran, and security consultant who writes military fantasy, science fiction, military history non-fiction, and has contributed to numerous military history publications.

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Book of Final Flesh 2003 Buy
Beyond the Wall 2012 Buy
Operation Arcana 2015 Buy

General Military Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Otto Skorzeny 1950 Buy
The Forgotten Dead 1988 Buy
Jackspeak 1989 Buy
Joshua L. Chamberlain 1999 Buy
Hunt the Bismarck 2003 Buy
Out of Nowhere 2004 Buy
Rome at War 2005 Buy
Struggle for a Vast Future 2006 Buy
Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited 2006 Buy
FUBAR 2007 Buy
An Officer’s Manual of the Western Front 2008 Buy
Warship 2008 2008 Buy
Deceiving Hitler 2008 Buy
Empire of the Seas 2009 Buy
The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 2009 Buy
No Greater Ally 2009 Buy
Armies of the Napoleonic Wars 2009 Buy
The Roman Army 2010 Buy
Battleground Prussia 2010 Buy
The Road to Victory 2011 Buy
The Spitfire Pocket Manual 2011 Buy
Silent Killers 2011 Buy
Warship 2011 2011 Buy
Quick Training for War 2011 Buy
Panther 2012 Buy
The Para Fitness Guide 2012 Buy
The Rice Paddy Navy 2012 Buy
The Commando Pocket Manual 2012 Buy
Concrete Hell 2012 Buy
America’s Elite 2014 Buy
American Tanks & AFVs of World War II 2014 Buy
Invasion 1914 2014 Buy
No Victory in Valhalla 2014 Buy
The SAS Pocket Manual 2014 Buy
Company of Heroes 2015 Buy
Germany Ascendant 2015 Buy
The History of the Panzerwaffe 2015 Buy
Finland at War 2015 Buy
American Knights 2015 Buy
Liberty or Death 2016 Buy
Samurai Armour 2016 Buy
Maps of War 2016 Buy
We March Against England 2016 Buy
Instrument of War 2016 Buy
With Their Bare Hands 2017 Buy
Loco Spotter’s Guide 2017 Buy
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II 2017 Buy
Sevastopol’s Wars 2017 Buy
Bloodstained Sands 2017 Buy
Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants 2017 Buy
Shadow over the Atlantic 2017 Buy
Shot Down and in the Drink 2017 Buy
The Splintered Empires 2017 Buy
The Second World Wars 2017 Buy
Concorde Pocket Manual 2017 Buy
Pacific Thunder 2017 Buy
Case Red 2017 Buy
Legion versus Phalanx 2018 Buy
The Mosquito Pocket Manual 2018 Buy
Morning Star, Midnight Sun 2018 Buy
Cutty Sark Pocket Manual 2018 Buy
The British Home Guard Pocketbook 2018 Buy
Snapdragon 2018 Buy
Tidal Wave 2018 Buy
HMS Belfast Pocket Manual 2018 Buy
The German Soldier’s Pocket Manual 2018 Buy
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat 2018 Buy
Valley Of The Shadow 2018 Buy
Day of the Rangers 2018 Buy
Forts 2018 Buy
The Third Reich is Listening 2018 Buy
Charlie Company Journeys Home 2018 Buy
Run to the Sound of the Guns 2018 Buy
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank 2018 Buy
Hitler’s Death 2019 Buy
The Great Bear at War 2019 Buy
The Pirate World 2019 Buy
How to Survive in the Georgian Navy 2019 Buy
An Englishman Abroad 2019 Buy
War Bows 2019 Buy
Pilgrim Days 2019 Buy
Panzerartillerie 2019 Buy
Holding the Line 2019 Buy
World War II Battle by Battle 2019 Buy
Doctor for Friend and Foe 2019 Buy
Warship 2019 2019 Buy
Scapa 1919 2019 Buy
Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway 2019 Buy
German submarine U-1105 ‘Black Panther’ 2019 Buy
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank 2019 Buy
The Hurricane Pocket Manual 2019 Buy
On a Knife’s Edge 2019 Buy
Case White 2019 Buy
Sent by the Iron Sky 2019 Buy
The Persian War 2019 Buy
Blazing Star, Setting Sun 2020 Buy
Audacious Missions of World War II 2020 Buy
Be PARA Fit 2020 Buy
Hitler’s Tanks 2020 Buy
The Master Shipwright’s Secrets 2020 Buy
Lawrence of Arabia on War 2020 Buy
The Devil’s Bridge 2020 Buy
Rome - City in Terror 2020 Buy
I Will Run Wild 2020 Buy
The Reckoning 2020 Buy
Mutiny on the Spanish Main 2020 Buy
Blood, Metal and Dust 2020 Buy
The Churchill Quiz Book 2021 Buy
Warship 2021 2021 Buy
Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank 2021 Buy
Jutland 1916 2021 Buy

L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024 Buy
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae 2024 Buy
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England 2024 Buy

Sacred Throne Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Armored Saint 2018 Buy
The Queen of Crows 2018 Buy
The Killing Light 2019 Buy

Shadow Ops Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Control Point 2012 Buy
Fortress Frontier 2013 Buy
Breach Zone 2014 Buy

Shadow Ops: Reawakening Trilogy Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Gemini Cell 2015 Buy
Javelin Rain 2016 Buy
Siege Line 2017 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Sixteenth Watch 2020 Buy
The Bronze Lie 2021 Buy

The Shield Single Issues Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Shield #1 2015 Buy
The Shield #2 2016 Buy
The Shield #3 2016 Buy
The Shield #4 2016 Buy

Wildsidhe Chronicles

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Car Trouble 2002 Buy

Myke Cole bridges military service and fiction writing in a way few authors can match. His Shadow Ops trilogy (Control Point, Fortress Frontier, Breach Zone) imagines a world where people develop magical abilities and the military has to figure out how to control and deploy them. The Reawakening Trilogy (Gemini Cell, Javelin Rain, Siege Line) prequels the main series. His Sacred Throne novellas shift to a medieval fantasy setting but keep the military themes.

Beyond fiction, Cole has contributed extensively to military history publishing, with his work appearing in over a hundred titles covering everything from World War II tank warfare to Napoleonic armies to modern special forces. His own non-fiction books include The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae and Steel Lobsters about English knights. He also writes Sixteenth Watch, a near-future military science fiction novel set in a Coast Guard conflict on the Moon.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Myke Cole written?

Myke Cole has written 173 books across ten series.

What was Myke Cole's first book?

Myke Cole’s first book is Otto Skorzeny, published in 1950.

How does Myke Cole's military experience influence his writing?

“Cole served in the U.S. Coast Guard and has worked in intelligence and security consulting. His military experience directly shapes both his fiction — the Shadow Ops series features soldiers manifesting magical powers and being integrated into military command structures — and his non-fiction, including military history books about Thermopylae and English knights. He brings a practitioner’s knowledge of military culture, hierarchy, and combat to everything he writes.”

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