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Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw |
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the… |
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell |
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… |
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Dr. Henry R. Porter
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L. G. Walker |
"This volume details the life and times of Dr. Henry Porter, through his work as an Army surgeon and early medical practitioner in the western territories of Arizona, Dakota, and Montana. Most import… |
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Ghosts of war
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Ryan Smithson |
Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tou… |
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Princess of the Midnight Ball
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Jessica Day George |
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the … |
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Red flags
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Amer Faris |
"This memoir of an Iraqi soldier writing under a pseudonym uses "red flags" as a metaphor for military targets during his country's invasion by the United States in 2003. He recounts his involvement … |
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Murder in Baker Company
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Cilla McCain |
Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, e… |
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In the Name of Honor
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Richard North Patterson |
"An Iraq veteran shoots his commanding officer, who was married to a family friend." (From NY Times.) |
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Walter's purple heart
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
"Michael Steeb is an aimless twenty-one-year-old pot farmer living a day-to-day existence in an unfinished farmhouse in central California in the 1980s. He has no real plans or interests - until the … |
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Life of a Roman soldier
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Don Nardo |
Explains how the discipline, courage, and preparation of the Roman soldier combined with the strategies and tactics of his commander and the organization of the military establishment resulted in the… |
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Gabriel's Horses
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Alison Hart |
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey. |
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The Good Soldiers
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David Finkel |
[From the jacket] What is the true story of [George W. Bush's Iraq] surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that … Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the fr… |
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Soldier in the Grass
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Joanna Crispi |
The Congo is in civil war and Brazzaville is under siege. During a mission to evacuate French nationals, Lt. Vincent Chavanne is separated from his unit and left for dead. Soldier in the Grass record… |
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Valkyrie
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Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus Freiherr von |
Follows Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his fellow officers as they begin to understand the horrors perpetrated by the Third Reich and decide that they must assassinate the Führer. |
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Patrick Shaw Stewart
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Miles Jebb |
248 p. : 24 cm |
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Phantoms in the snow
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Kathleen Benner Duble |
In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test. |
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Patriotism in Action
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Valmiki Faleiro |
A book that lists and describes the contribution of Goans to the Indian defence forces. |
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Soldaten
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Harald Welzer,Sönke Neitzel |
Dieses Buch legt auf der Basis von 150.000 Seiten Abhörprotokollen erstmals eine überzeugende Mentalitätsgeschichte des Krieges vor. In von Briten und Amerikanern eigens eingerichteten Lagern wurden … |
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Shatter Me
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Tahereh Mafi |
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as… |
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A darkness forged in fire
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Chris Evans |
We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,
We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,
And we do not fear its light,
Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,
For therein lies our power… |
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