Christ's Purple Heart: Killed In Action Body Resurrected (c. 2023) is a special 128-page narrative on the final days and hours of Christ's life from the perspective of a hand-to-hand, close quarters combative tactician, Chuck Habermehl. Habermehl found support in the study of crucifixion and in numerous books on the life of Jesus Christ and in period books on warfare in the region and medicine, each listed in the book’s 35 references.

As stated in Christ's Purple Heart, “Jesus had His marching orders in AD30, with His operation planning and methods being similar to classic small-unit tactics. There was the occupier and the occupied, the ally and the axis, good and evil.”

Regarding the horrific physical tortures Christ endured, Habermehl elaborates on descriptive injuries that are typically missing from most accounts of Christ’s death. While we know what can happen today when violent hostile crowds form, “it is no surprise what happened to Christ during a far more barbaric time.”

"Four chapters of Christ's Purple Heart are dedicated to the mechanisms of His dying: interrogating, scourging, beatings and the crucifixion. During all of this, Jesus possessed all the attributes of a brave and disciplined warrior, willing to sacrifice Himself for His unit, the mission and mankind." While He is deserving of so many honors, including a Medal of Honor, it is because of His physical injuries Habermehl focuses on Christ's Purple Heart.