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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill and the other members of Taskforce, an elite team that works outside the law to stop terrorist threats, are working to stop the plans of two different terrorist organizations and prevent a weapon of mass destruction from hitting the United States.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Elite military cop Jack Reacher, having arrived undercover in Carter Crossing, Mississippi, to investigate evidence linking a soldier to a murder of a young woman, reluctantly joins forces with local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux and tries to uncover details about a conspiracy which threatens to shatter his faith in the assignment.
Author
Series
Letters of Enchantment volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who's lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal correspondence, leading to a pivotal decision that could impact the course of the war and his relationship with Iris.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years in the research and writing, [this book] is a ... look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to recent times, we see them struggling with Congress,...
Author
Publisher
Fox News Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...
13) Ring of fire
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Language
English
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Former Delta Force officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a relentlessly fast-paced, gripping thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face-to-face with an insidious threat to strike terror into the heart of America.
Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide...
Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's latest heart-stopping thriller, Pike Logan returns with his most dangerous and personal threat yet: a Taskforce Operator gone rogue. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside...
17) Operator down
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Series
Language
English
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Description
• A New York Times Bestseller • Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller where Pike Logan's search for a Mossad agent and ally puts him on a collision course with a ruthless military coup in Africa—and tests his loyalties to the Taskforce.
It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing whether a merchant in the...
It was to be a simple mission. Nothing more than assessing whether a merchant in the...
20) Spartans
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Spartans." --Provided by publisher.
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