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Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 425 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Human desire: A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
Pushover: An undercover cop falls for the beautiful girlfriend of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross the crook and the cops.
The brothers Rico: A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They came from one street, but death found them in many places...in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky. One died going over a fence during the greatest paratrooper assault in history. Another fell in the biggest battle of World War II. Yet another, riddled with bullets in an audacious act of heroism during a decisive onslaught a world, and a war, away. All came from a single street...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort to boost soldiers' morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women and famous entertainers overseas. Kara Dixon Vuic builds her narrative around the young women from across the United States, many of whom had never traveled far from...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem--now the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee--tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in a horrific Korean War battle (the last bad day of his life, he says), and his many years in Congress. Charles Rangel is one of a kind, and this is the story of how he became the celebrated person and politician he is today.--From...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (262 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I shot Jesse James: Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.
The Baron of Arizona: Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire state of Arizona.
The steel helmet: A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior...
187) The hunters
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First Vintage International edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 233 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed the border with Soviet tanks, it was war. Marguerite was there when the Communists captured Seoul. She fled with the refugees heading south, but when the bridges were blown over...
189) Peacebound trains
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sumi's grandmother tells the story of her family's escape from Seoul during the Korean War, while they watch the trains which will eventually bring her mother back from army service.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
36 DVDs (approximately 6579 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. in slipcase (26 x 18 x 8 cm) and binder (25 x 17 x 7 cm) + 1 book (63 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
Follows the humorous & dramatic adventures of the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession. Journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie’s rightful place in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time.
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