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2) Zero day
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Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Immortals is the story of Calli Coleman, a classically trained musician from a well-connected Baltimore family, who has no idea what's in store for her when her soldier-husband, Luke, is recalled to an infantry unit during the Iraq War. Uprooting her young family from the hometown she adores and depositing them in provincial Sackets Harbor, New York, Calli is suddenly thrust into the role of Army wife and tumbles into a complicated social hierarachy...
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Language
English
Description
"Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend Lizzie suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do whatever they can to serve, they enlist in the Army and embark...
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Language
English
Description
A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust.
"The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, remains...
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Language
English
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"Oflag 64, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp based in Schubin, Poland, was speculated to be one of the only POW camps set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. About 150 American officers lived in the camp in 1943, and by 1945, that number had expanded to 1,500. When the German commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders to march all of his prisoners to west Germany to escape the Russians in January 1945, that number...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety.--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 541 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in Februar-- targeting German aircraft production plants-- to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over Berlin, the combined US Air Force - Royal Air Force forces' round-the-clock campaign bottled up the German army in Normandy. Day after day, the American bomber boys watched their comrades burn to death in blazing bombers,...
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