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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A happy-go-lucky American naval officer with no appetite for war discovers to his horror that he may be the first casualty of the Normandy invasion as part of a PR effort. He also tries to catch the eye of Emily, a depressed English woman.
322) Nick: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is...
324) Beasts of no nation
Series
Criterion collection volume 1091
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after the murder of his father by militants, a young West African boy falls under the spell of his dangerous commander.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A hilarious examination of faux pas for readers of Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened Humankind is doomed. Especially you. It's already too late. From overstaying your welcome at a party, to leaving passive-aggressive post-its on your roommate's belongings, to letting your date know the extent of the internet reconnaissance you did on them--you're destined to embarrass yourself again and again....
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense from...
328) Cassiel's servant
Author
Series
Kushiel's legacy volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Kushiel's Dart, a daring young courtesan uncovered a plot to destroy her beloved homeland. But hers is only half the tale. Now see the other half of the heart that lived it. Cassiel's Servant is a retelling of cult favorite Kushiel's Dart from the point of view of Joscelin, Cassiline warrior-priest and protector of Phèdre nó Delaunay. He's sworn to celibacy and the blade as surely as she's pledged to pleasure, but the gods they serve have bound...
Author
Publisher
History Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The author traces the changing nature of warfare from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets and mountains of Iraq and Afghanistan and defines the escalating physical and psychological damage of wounds to troops in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across...
331) Bootblack
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population -- African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. In Black Patriots and Loyalists, Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling of the legend of John Clem, who ran away from his Ohio home to become a drummer boy during the Civil War, and became famous when he was captured in 1863 and was exchanged after a short stay in Andersonville prison.
334) Tigerman: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational...
335) Living with honor
Author
Publisher
Threshold Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
A Medal of Honor recipient shares the story of his military career, recounting his deployment to Afghanistan's volatile Korengal Valley and his life-risking efforts to provide medical aid to wounded fellow soldiers during an October 2007 Taliban ambush.
336) The eight hundred
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
This film presents the "true story of the outnumbered and under-equipped Chinese soldiers heroically defending the Sihang Warehouse from 20,000 members of the formidable Imperial Japanese Army during the bloody Battle of Shanghai." --container
337) Born of betrayal
Author
Series
The League volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancé. Even his name. Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again. But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancé back into his world...
338) Sergeant Rutledge
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An African-American "buffalo soldier" is accused of rape and murder, but is successfully defended by a white officer during his trial in 1881.
339) Generation kill
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A "fact-based dramatization" based on Evan Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter with the United States Marine Corps in 2003. Presents a uniquely epic and intimate portrait of the first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion -- a new breed of American soldiers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beckett, If youre reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didnt. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ellas raising the twins alone. Shes too independent and wont accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. Its too much for anyone to endure....
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