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Dec. 13, 2022
Ricky Balona
Biography
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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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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Series
By Blood Spilt
by Ricky Balona
Steele's Dien Bien Phu.
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Verdun
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Death March
Steele's Dien Bien Phu.
Price:
Free!
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Verdun
Price:
$3.99 USD.
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Death March
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Books
Sacred Retributionj
by Ricky Balona
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 72,840.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 5, 2023
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Christian » Historical, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
Set in Queenstown, New Zealand. When War Correspondent Kheelan Sledge follows up on an anonymous lead Sledge finds himself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. A priest is murdered in a ritualistic and very gruesome manner. Sledge finds himself as the number one suspect in the horrific murder. Cryptic messages appear in the newspaper a day before the murders are committed by a masked cult...
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Verdun
by Ricky Balona
Series: By Blood Spilt, Book 2.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 46,600.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 2, 2018
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Sergeant Steele is thrust into the carnage of World War One with the French Foreign Legion. Shipped from their desert outposts in North Africa to the mud and blood of Europe's trenches the seasoned veterans fight a desperate battle at Verdun. Based on the Legion's incredible advance through heavily defended German positions fact and fiction are intertwined. Steele must face the enemy and the...
By Blood Spilt Trilogy
by Ricky Balona
Price:
$9.00 USD.
Words: 178,020.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 28, 2019
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure
A collection of all three action packed novels in the series. Steele's Dien Bien Phu. While fighting as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land, Steele discovers the Ark of the Covenant. Unwittingly he is cursed to an eternity of military servitude. Centuries later Steele is fighting in the French Foreign Legion at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Amidst the horrors of war, he comes face to face with his...
By Blood Spilt - Steele's Death March
by Ricky Balona
Series: By Blood Spilt, Book 3.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 64,130.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 2, 2018
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Sergeant Steele watched with growing unease from the ramparts of the Citadel in Lang Son at the number of Japanese troops patrolling the narrow streets. Heavy artillery pieces pointed in the direction of the small French Foreign Legion unit. Under command of the French Vichy government an uneasy truce between the French in Indochina and Japanese forces was about to erupt into all out war. The...
Steele's Dien Bien Phu.
by Ricky Balona
Series: By Blood Spilt, Book 1.
Price:
Free!
Words: 67,160.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 2, 2018
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
While fighting as a Knight Templar in the Holy Land, Steele discovers the Ark of the Covenant. Unwittingly he is cursed to an eternity of military servitude. Centuries later Steele is fighting in the French Foreign Legion at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. Amidst the horrors of war, he comes face to face with his nemesis Jean, a fanatical monk. Parachuting into Dien Bien Phu on the eve of...
French Foreign Legion Adventures.
by Ricky Balona
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 34,060.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 10, 2018
by
Ricky Balona.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Caught between the lines a Legionnaire is captured by the "Wild Men of No-Man's Land", deserters from both sides living in the hell of mud and blood during W.W.1. On the deadly R.C 4. in Indochina a Legionnaire fights to the bitter end against the Viet Minh. A Medic fights for survival at the bloody battle of Dien Bien Phu. In the desert heat Legionnaires battle marauding Berber tribesmen. In...