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1) Home front
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English
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
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Tufa novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
"No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. . . . Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa,...
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Sean Drummond novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Investigating the suicide of a Washington defense official, military lawyer Sean Drummond is caught in the middle of a political struggle between influential power brokers and his own allegiance to the soldiers fighting in the Iraqi war.
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English
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A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead. Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine's...
10) The Iraq war
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English
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Supplemented by interviews with Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, a narrative history of the Iraq conflict provides updated information on the war, ranging from a discussion of the murderous reign of Saddam Hussein and the diplomatic upheaval that preceded the invasion to a look at the campaign and its causes, costs, problems, and potential implications. Author of the acclaimed the Face of Battle, and, most recently, Intelligence in War, John...
11) Faces of freedom
Publisher
Wentworth
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
In these pages you will read about some of the nation's fallen heroes. Some were great warriors. Some served their countries quietly and dutifully. All loved America. While only 52 fallen heroes are featured here, Faces of Freedom is a tribute to all who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we -- and our future generations -- may live in peace, secruity and freedom.
13) Diamondhead
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Series
Mack Bedford novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford’s fellow officers are brutally killed by Iraqi insurgents using a cruel, new, anti-tank Diamondhead missile, Mack avenges their murders by gunning down the then-unarmed attackers, ultimately getting himself court-martialed and kicked out of the Navy in the process. To make matters worse, Mack then learns that the Diamondhead missiles were sold illegally by French industrialist and infamous politician Henri Foche....
14) Redeployment
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English
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"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...
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Virgin River volume 7
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English
Description
Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series...
Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq—his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart?
As the people...
Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq—his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart?
As the people...
17) Phantom noise
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Publisher
Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
93 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
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English
Description
Poems.
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo'a Sunday Times number one bestseller'tells the story of "sixty special forces against 100,000'a feat of arms to take the breath away." (Frederick Forsythe) They were branded as cowards and accused desertion. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003, M Squadron'an SBS unit...
19) Rogue forces
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Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"Brown is excellent."
—San Francisco Chronicle
Dale Brown, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list—alongside the novels of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and other superstars of the military adventure genre—triumphs again with Rogue Forces. A riveting and relentlessly exciting thriller, Rogue Forces explores a timely and important question in this age of Blackwell and Halliburton: What would happen
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