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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job--and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within...
2) Battleground
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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Marine Corps soldiers fight in the Pacific in the bloody months spanning the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
Author
Series
Corps volume 3
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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Description
A story of the Marines and their loves and loyalties, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the beaches of Guadalcanal.
4) Close combat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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Description
As the Japanese forces try to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and inter-twine during World War II.
5) Honor bound
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Series
Language
English
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In 1942 First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Marine aviator, and two others are sent to Buenos Aires to sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines.
Author
Series
The corps volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission into the jungles of the island Mindanao in search of a missing colonel, who is reported to be harassing the Japanese inhabitants.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
The Clifton chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The Sins of the Father.
With war between Britian and Germany on the immediate horizon, Harry Clifton has joined the merchant marines to escape long buried family secrets that have just come to light. And it isn't long before war is upon them. On the very day that Britain declares
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
11) The Liberators
Author
Series
World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
12) Sink or swim
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
13) Allies
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English
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It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A group of American Marines, serving in small garrisons throughout North China in 1941, are stranded when the U.S. declares war on Japan, and forced to undertake an epic march through hostile territory in an attempt to rejoin their Corps.
16) The Right fight
Author
Series
World War II volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But he gets a chance at a new life and a new identity when he and his mom move to the small town of Delta, Utah, to live with Jay's grandfather. In Delta, Jay can convince everyone, and maybe even himself, that his dad --who is missing in action-- as he fights in WWII is really a POW and military hero, and not gone forever. As the summer wears on and Jay finds himself growing...
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Language
English
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September, 1940. German bombs fall on Britain, and enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the National...
20) Pocahontas
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Legendary tale of Native American Pocahontas and her unlikely romance with British Captain John Smith
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