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2) Netroots rising: how a citizen army of bloggers and online activists is changing American politics
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
3) D-Day 360
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes D-Day back to its raw data to reveal how the odds of victory, in the greatest gamble of World War II, swung on what happened over a five-hour period on a five mile stretch of French coastline. Data gathered though forensic laser scanning, 3D computer modeling, and eye-witness accounts bring the battlefield to life as never before.
Author
Language
English
Description
A narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 1944, Hitler wages one more desperate bloody attack. Hitler struck back with a brutal counterattack and the Battle of the Bulge was the single biggest and bloodiest battle U.S. soldiers have ever fought. Almost 80,000 Americans were killed, injured, or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance that ultimately ended with a hard-won victory for the Allies. Told through the eyes of the U.S. soldiers and combat officers in the field....
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Modern Library paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 702 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Among the autobiographies of great military leaders, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War rescued him, these memoirs are a deeply moving account of a brilliant man.
Author
Series
Primas of power volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
10) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 2 Blu-rays (106 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk with enemy troops closing in. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military officers and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army.
12) Lifeboat
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger: the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them. With powerful suspense and emotion, this legendary classic reveals the strengths and frailties of individuals under extraordinary duress.
Author
Language
English
Description
“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly...
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly...
16) Play dirty
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel in charge is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission 400 miles behind German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive. The real leader of the group doesn't need or want the British officer, who's supposed...
17) Lone survivor
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : 8 unnumbered photographic plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Army formed its first air force designated to operate oversears, The Eighth. Within four months, they had set up base in England. Three months later, they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics--and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and...
19) The longest day
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (approximately 6 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.
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