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Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Apache of the American Southwest had long been in conflict with Mexican and U.S. soldiers and settlers by the time Geronimo began resisting these forces. The Apache warrior and his followers spent decades fighting to remain free and in control of their vast lands. The last stage of the long-running resistance began about 1877 when U.S. troops rounded up the Apache and moved them to a reservation. Unable to tolerate life there, Geronimo and his...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about Paul Revere, the minutemen, Valley Forge, and the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text,...
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"By NY Times Bestselling Author Bob Mayer (author of the bestselling Area 51 series) #1 Kindle Science Fiction Bestseller What if the Shadow that destroyed Atlantis 10,000 years ago, comes back to threaten our present world? A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these...
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"By NY Times Bestselling Author Bob Mayer (author of the bestselling Area 51 series) #1 Kindle Science Fiction Bestseller What if the legendary Shadow that destroyed Atlantis 10,000 years ago, comes back to threaten our present world? Washington DC is laid waste. In Paris, the swastika flies from the Eiffel Tower. More than two billion are dead from the polar caps melting. This is the future former Green Beret Eric Dane, with the help of Amelia Earhart,...
5) ATLANTIS
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"By West Point Graduate, Former Green Beret and NY Times Bestselling Author Bob Mayer (author of the bestselling Area 51 series) A #1 Kindle Science Fiction Bestseller What if the Shadow that destroyed Atlantis 10,000 years ago, comes back to threaten our present world? A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan,...
Author
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"By NY Times Bestselling Author Bob Mayer (author of the bestselling Area 51 series) #1 Kindle Science Fiction Bestseller on Amazon What if the Shadow that destroyed Atlantis 10,000 years ago, comes back to threaten our present world? A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside...
Author
Language
English
Description
The International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), an international think tank established jointly by the United States and Soviet Union in Austria in 1972, was intended to advance scientific collaboration. Until the late 1980s, the IIASA was one of the very few permanent sites where policy scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain could work together to articulate and solve world problems, most notably global climate change. One...
Author
Publisher
Swordworks & Miro Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Earth's Greatest Warrior, Mitch Taylor, must make a stand in the face of a relentless invasion of Earth!Humanity has been weakened after a series of catastrophic wars. But peace is to be short lived as a terrifying alien race arrives at Earth. Part living being and part machine, they're a powerful and advanced alien race who seemingly want only one thing, the extinction and annihilation of humanity.Earth is soon consumed by the invading alien armies...
10) Chasing the Lost
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
NY Times Bestselling Author, former Green Beret and West Point graduate, Bob Mayer. "A pulsing technothriller. A nailbiter in the best tradition of adventure fiction." Publishers Weekly ref Bob Mayer Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mothers ashes were spread and to inspect the home his mother left him in her will. Hes been recently forced into retirement,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The relationship between the Roman Empire and its rival, the Parthian-Persian Empire, has long been viewed as bloody, hostile, and destructive. In fact, the truth is more complex. For more than seven hundred years, the Romans lived side by side by their eastern neighbors, sometimes at war, more often at peace, almost always trading with each other to their mutual benefit. The Roman Empire was wealthier and larger than the Persian Empire and its predecessor,...
12) After Action
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hosted by Air Force combat veteran Stacy Pearsall, After Action reveals the experiences of 21 veterans from across the country through candid conversations about what life is like before, during and after action. Pearsall’s own struggles to reconnect with society challenges her fellow veterans to probe deeper into their stories, helping to provide a better appreciation for those who’ve served.
13) Last Battle
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A few days after Christmas 1890, U.S. cavalry troops surrounded and fired on a band of Lakota Sioux near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The Indians had already surrendered, but when someone fired a shot while the band was being disarmed, chaos broke out. No one knows for sure who fired that first shot, but in the end nearly 300 Lakota lay dead. The massacre at Wounded Knee marked the final conflict between the Sioux and the U.S. Army. How would...
Author
Publisher
Patricia Loofbourrow
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
What would you do if the man you were sworn to protect ordered you to commit genocide?Fifteen hundred years after the Catastrophe, Inventor Benjamin Kerr built the domed neo-Edwardian city-state of Bridges in the center of the former U.S. Three hundred years later, Bridges is in trouble. King Taylor Kerr is elderly, the economy is struggling, and corruption is rampant.Forty years ago, a fence was built outside of the "Pot of Gold" - the city proper...
Author
Publisher
Cooper Square Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
As the U.S. Army's Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number of Americans and shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defence during the Korean War, Marshall the statesman created the European Recovery Act (known as the Marshall Plan) and made possible...
16) H Is for Honor
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Written by the son of a career officer, this book explores the branches of the Armed Services and speaks from the heart about the honor, privileges and sacrifices of military families everywhere. Children will discover why drill sergeants have to be so tough, what it means to be patriotic and why we need Special Forces such as the Navy S.E.A.L.s, the Green Berets and the Army Rangers. H Is for Honor also explains why the annual Army/Navy football...
Author
Publisher
Ruth Beaumont Cook
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Chronicling a lesser-known aspect of World War II, this glimpse into secret history re-creates the world of Aliceville, Alabama, during the war, when as many as 6,000 German prisoners-of-war (POWs) and 1,000 military police guards set up camp and stayed for almost three years. It discusses how the residents of Aliceville helped build, operate, and supply the camp, as well as become inextricably intertwined with camp life and the soldiers being held...
19) Honor Betrayed
Author
Publisher
Barricade Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In Honor Betrayed, Dr. Mic Hunter probes beyond the headlines to reveal the reality of sexual abuse in the military. The culture of the military's training is to turn recruits into those who follow orders without question. Honor Betrayed describes in detail the gross realities of the hostile, uber-masculine, dehumanizing environment our young men and women confront. Most vulnerable to sexual abuse are minorities-particularly women and homosexuals....
Author
Publisher
David VanDyke
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
BOOK FIVE of the Plague Wars series.When a friend disappears, Skull must track him down. Spooky's family is sent to a death camp and he proposes a suicidal rescue, but only Reaper can lead it. Bogged down in a war with the rebel state of Alaska, at odds with Canada and meddling in Mexico's politics, the Unionist-controlled USA proceeds down an ugly path toward fascism, tyranny, and genocide. Politics, assassination and propaganda form the backdrop...
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