Forward by Christopher Nuttall.
A military sci-fi collection of epic space battles and space marine combat against alien hordes on distant planets. 'The Stars in Flames' brings you 5 full-length novels from military science fiction authors.

I. Capital Starship by Scott Bartlett
The Ixa smashed the galaxy to bits before their defeat, but in the decades since the politicians became, wrongly, convinced that maintaining peace meant limiting their ability to wage war. Now, the enemy has returned, with high-tech weapons proving their own combat capabilities are not limited in the slightest. Captain Husher and his beleaguered supercarrier-crew must stop the invaders or watch the galaxy be devoured... whole.

II. Invasion by PP Corcoran
Humanity, previously dependent on the K'Tai for its Redlazore, discover vast resources of the most valuable mineral in the galaxy on Agate; the human colony-world which lies perilously close to the K'Tai Imperium. The K’Tai invade opposed by a meagre, poorly-armed militia, a sprinkling of regular marines and the Carters… a seemingly ordinary family with secrets that may just save their world.

III. Ark Royal by Christopher G. Nuttall
Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. Now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armor is little more than a burden as she floats in permanent orbit near Earth. But when a deadly alien threat appears, their modern starships are no match for the powerful alien weapons. Ark Royal and her mismatched crew must go on the offensive. And yet, with a drunkard for a captain, an over-ambitious first officer and a crew composed of reservists and the dregs of the service, do they have even the faintest hope of surviving? Or of returning to an Earth which may no longer?

IV. The Void War by D.J. Holmes
It's the year 2465, 200 years since the stars were opened by the invention of the shift drive. So began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting humanity into a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space. Now tensions between the human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility. Into this maelstrom steps the exiled commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy. Banished from London to the survey ship HMS Drake he is about to make a discovery that may change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival.

V. RECON: A War to the Knife by Rick Partlow
Desperate to escape his mother's control, and against her wishes, Tyler, a pampered heir changes his identity to Randall Munroe, a product of the poverty-stricken Underground, and enlists in the Marines. There he flourishes, becoming a member of an elite Force Recon unit and striking deep behind enemy lines. When his platoon is assigned to take back the colony on Demeter from the Tahni, the mission falls apart, most of his comrades are killed and Munroe is wounded, separated from his unit and left for dead on an enemy occupied world. With no other choice, he organizes the civilian colonists into a resistance movement and begins fighting against the occupation with limited supplies and no support. As the situation becomes more and more desperate, what began as a high-tech, interstellar conflict will become a war to the knife…