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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A Royal Air Force officer is caught between the ravages of World War II and unrequited love. Flight Lieutenant David Bradford meets and falls in love with a beautiful Jewish girl, Sarah while recuperating from a leg wound in Jerusalem. Her family rejects him, however, and wages war on the couple by trying to keep them apart.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette: what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter's infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis' plans for a "Final Solution" before it was too late." -- inside front jacket flap.
"To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered...
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume no. 6
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by LPC Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In a brilliant yet daring spy scheme to protect Britain's shores, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French High Command.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
British ship's captain Will Laurence has created an international incident by snatching a dragon's egg meant as a gift from the Chinese emperor to Napoleon. Facing hanging for his unwitting role, Laurence is now trying to return the hatched dragon to the Far East, unaware that he may be facing even worse troubles if he manages to reach the Chinese court.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An uncensored account of one of America's most decorated soldiers in the Vietnam War describes his day-to-day activities during wartime, his controversial attitudes toward combat, and the occasions when he relieved leaders during enemy contacts.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of an extraordinary love affair. In 1904, British Army officer Arthur Hart-Synnot was sent to Japan to learn the language. Arthur met Masa Suzuki at the Officers' Club and was immediately smitten. Masa had grown up among shopkeepers and craftsmen in working-class of Tokyo. She had left school at age fourteen to work and was a dutiful Japanese daughter. But her feelings for Arthur were so powerful that she was willing to risk...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz;...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them--life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loves and hears the voice of his dead fiancée as he perfects a plan to to save Nazi Germany from defeat. Captain Dieter Neukirk is more concerned with saving the lives of his remaining men while his lover, a social worker...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Abe, a young Marine recruit who experiences the ugly, pedestrian, and often meaningless side of military service in rural Iraq. He enlists in hopes of finding that missing something in his life but comes to find out that it's not quite what he expected. Abe gets more than he bargained for when his journey takes him to the Middle East in war-torn Iraq.
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume no. 3
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade by LPC Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Ramage is is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig, Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. While sympathizing with some of their complaints, the lieutenant knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temeraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume no. 17
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Barbary Coast pirates--the Saraceni--are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another town.
19) MacArthur
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Profiles five-star general Douglas MacArthur, focusing on his contributions to military strategy and leadership, his role as an early proponent of the Air Force as an integral part of modern warfare, and his management of peace during the U.S. occupation of Japan.
20) The centurion
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Duty. Honor. Tyranny. Love. Lucius read of the heroic exploits of Caesar's Fourteenth Legion and their attacks on Gaul and Britain, and ever since, he dreamed of the glory of Rome and adventures on the high seas that would secure his place in that glory. But his first station was in the backwaters of Jerusalem. Haunted by witnessing the crucifixion of Jesus, Lucius seeks out one of his followers, Mary of Magdalene. He must know more about this King...
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