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3) Victory
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A collection of original World War II stories includes contributions by such authors as Ralph Peters, David Hagberg, and Harold Robbins.
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Advances a leadership model for business that takes Americans beyond combat and competition as the default setting for our daily enterprise. The book draws on feature and documentary films, TV, social science, and journalism to show that in the 21st century, the United States is reaping the fruit of a long-standing and deep-rooted faith in one take on business practice. Our emphasis on competition and individual initiative has made us the standard-setters...
Author
Publisher
PublishAmerica
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The Holy War - Women in Combat opens with a wounded soldier recounting her experience as a combat soldier in one of the bloodiest wars in U.S. history. Although she is telling the story to her readers, her main audience is Dr. Issac, the hospital psychiatrist who is working with her to deal with the traumatic events that have invaded her life. The Holy War focuses on the many struggles the women of Second Platoon encounter from the beginning of training...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives...
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
One wore blue -- HER REBEL SPIRIT DEFIED HIS YANKEE SOUL. She was velvet and silk, emerald eyes and sunstruck hair, Kiernan Miller had married one man to protect her from another. She hated Jesse Cameron with a fierce passion. But she was a widow now, and he was the enemy at her door, come with weapons of fire to melt her icy heart.... HIS TRAITOR'S TOUCH IGNITED RAGING PASSIONS. He wore a Yankee uniform with inimitable Southern style, as true to...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Redeployment, a short story collection from a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who served several combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan--a powerful depiction of life on the front lines of today's warfare. A mesmerizing debut collection that reveals what it is like to be a member of an elite special operations team, when so many missions take place behind night vision, ancient credos, and layers of secrecy. Told without a trace of bravado,...
15) Semper Fi
Author
Series
Corps volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of war saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steeled themselves for battle, and prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice ...
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images ofthe fighting there. But this collection offers voices-powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are...
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Uncharted worlds, distant galaxies, and unknown threats lurking in the vastness of the cosmos ... travel to the farthest regions of space in this collection of original short stories. Written by many of today's finest authors, readers will find canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre....