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1) The Cossacks
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"The Cossacks" is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. Disenchanted with his privileged life in Russian society, nobleman Dmitri Olenin joins the army as a cadet, in the hopes of escaping the superficiality of his daily life. On a quest to find "completeness," he naively hopes to find serenity among the "simple" people of the Caucasus. In an...
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In Henty's words, "The Great War between, the Northern and Southern States of America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle between, two sections of a people akin to us in race and language, but because of the heroic courage with which the weaker party, with ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-equipped regiments, for four-years sustained, the contest with the adversary..."
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An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace. From the opening chapter where a Tomcat fighter squadron's commanding officer botches an intercept of a hostile Iranian F-4 to the final uplifting scene, his novel reveals the inner workings of the military as only an insider can. It is a thriller without an airshow groupie's pretense, a fighter...
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Davis was born on April 18, 1864. He made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889, by reporting on the devastation of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, following the infamous flood. He added to his reputation by reporting on other events, like the first electrocution of a criminal. Davis became a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, and was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As...
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A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own personal experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, touching lives as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger on a day to day basis.The story is based on personal...
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An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's 1820 quip, "In the four corners of the globe,...
7) Kara Kush
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In December of 1979, Soviet tanks rolled across the borders of Afghanistan, beginning a period of barbaric aggression that triggered a turning point in modern history. Idries Shah's brilliant novel chronicles the courageous 10-year resistance of the Afghan people, an epic story of triumph over tyranny that deserves to be immortalized.
Kara Kush is the definitive story of freedom fighters. It is a story of patriotism-in-action, mobilized and fuelled...
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Scottish officer, Captain Alexander Hepburn's involvement in the war has convinced him that human life is of very little value. German aristocrat, Countess Johanna zu Rassenflow, "Hannele," is captivated by Hepburn nonetheless, and as they journey together toward their ambiguous conclusion, the dehumanizing effects of war are made clear.
Published shortly after the First World War, D. H. Lawrence's The Captain's Doll contemplates the lasting effects...
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Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age’s greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb.
As he performs the work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda—unaware of the true...
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Londinium is burning. Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, newly appointed governor of Roman Britain, is charged by an increasingly unstable Emperor Nero with a difficult task-the untamed island on the fringes of the empire must earn a profit. To do so, Suetonius pursues the last of the Druids into Wales and, along the way, subdues the fractious Celtic chieftains who sit atop a fortune in gold and rare metals. Meanwhile, in the provincial capital of Londinium,...
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An epic story of a nation--and a family--divided by fate, love, loyalty, and war. . .
America, 1861. Battle lines have been drawn between the North and the South, pitting state against state--and brother against brother. For the three young sons of Ohio State Senator Clay Bell, the Civil War would change not only their lives, but the destinies of future generations.
Jacob Bell, the eldest, defies his father's wishes to run the family law practice...
12) Under Fire
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel was quickly, recognized as, a powerful tale of perseverance and comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully, leads time-and-again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each...
13) Zero Day
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John Puller novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life...
15) Cold Steel Seoul
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In the winter of 2018, the world braced as continued North Korean missile launches over the Korean Peninsula had deteriorated and cooled diplomatic efforts between the United States and the Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK). Now, in hindsight, most of the Pentagon's top brass freely admit real-world executive orders to transport military families living in South Korea at the time of volatility were at least somewhat warranted. Ultimately,...
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On her return in late 1936, Anna is reunited with her parents and sister as she and her husband, together with her sister Mary Ann and brother-in-law Harry, try to help the village during the depression. There are high points and low but as she matures, she survives most things that life throws at her. When, at the beginning of another war, she is separated from husband, brother-in-law, son and nephew, she becomes increasingly resourceful, helped...
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The reason the author wrote this, book came from visiting air-traffic-control-system at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a student. No one checked their identity, nor were there any security people present. The author went home at lunchtime and wrote the first ten pages, showing his concern of what just happened.
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It is 1938, there is civil warren Spain and war drums beating across Europe. Harry Morris, a language student on vacation, has seen preparations in Germany and is close to the Spanish border within France. A chance meeting in the Pyrenees with a desperate and mysterious couple changes his life. Back in England, Harry finds himself called up to the RAF. His language skills and the University Air Squadron put him on the front line. Meanwhile, an ailing...
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The story revolves around two childhood friends, Manfred and Tony, who were nurtured in the countryside in the fifties and enjoyed the utopia of a nation at peace that was carefree and full of hope after WWII. Vietnam replaced all that with a dystopia where conflicting ideologies trapped one in the dehumanising cauldron of war and spat out the other onto the streets in protest against it. As they tried to adjust to a new divided Australia one hid...
20) Chasing Revenge
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Harley Bodine is a tired operative ready to leave behind a life of guns and terrorists. But when Amanda Sherman assigns him one last mission-surveilling a Mexican cartel in Portland-his dream of a quiet retirement is shattered. As he faces his toughest challenge yet, Harley must decide if he can finally find peace, or if his past will catch up with him in ways he never imagined. A gripping thriller of redemption and danger from Michael A. Durney
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