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Author
Series
Liberation trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Picador, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
Author
Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
An account of the World War II campaign in Morocco and Algeria. Operation Torch, as it was called, became a proving ground where American officers learned to lead, soldiers learned to hate, and an entire army learned what it would take to defeat a formidable enemy.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1809, a few years after Lieutenant Richard Sharpe's heroic exploits on the battlefields of India and at Trafalgar, and Sharpe finds himself fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Napoleon is advancing fast in northern Portugal, and no one knows whether the small contingent of British troops stationed in Lisbon will stay to fight or sail back to England. Sharpe,...
Author
Series
Corps volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Extraordinary challenges face the Marines in Korea. It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them.
6) Under fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
The new novel in NYT bestselling Griffin's bestselling Corps series takes his marine heroes to Korea. Summary Griffin, author of the bestselling "Brotherhood of War, " takes his Marine heroes to Korea in the biggest Corps novel of them all. Filled with crackling realism, adventure, and rich characters that are his hallmarks, "Under Fire" is further proof, as Tom Clancy says, that "W.E.B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition."
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In this book, the author, deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the ten most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a Navy SEAL. He uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun. He revisits turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths--and weaknesses--shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction.--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. A B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012, the U.S. Coast...
19) What was D-Day?
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
D-Day spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Temporary Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the disgrace of his regiment in having lost its colors in combat by capturing one of the gold eagles given by Napoleon to each of his regiments.
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