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23) Dead zero
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Veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger is called in to investigate when Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, who was killed in action a year earlier, seems to come back from the dead, threatening to take out a high-ranking official and reveal government secrets.
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"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers,defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An...
25) Plan of attack
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Major General Patrick McLanahan, disgraced but unbowed after initiating an unauthorized attack on a Russian missile battery, must find a way to convince the government and the armed forces to follow his lead after he discovers the president of the Russian Federation is planning a long-range bomber attack on the U.S. mainland.
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These masterfully crafted stories from writers who have served reflect the entire breadth of human emotion-loss, anger, joy, love, fear, and courage-and the evolving nature of what has become America's "Forever War." From debut writers to experienced contributors whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the New Yorker, this exceptional collection promises to be the definitive fictional look at the aftereffects of the Iraq...
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Henry Fleming is a young private fighting for the Union Army in the American Civil War. His head filled with visions of heroic glory, Henry is eager for the battlefield, but when faced with his first real chance to fight, Henry begins to doubt his resolve and flees the battlefield. Ashamed, he soon regrets his actions, and longs to regain his honour by earning his "red badge of courage" by being wounded in service.
While author Stephen Crane had...
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In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and...
29) Birdsong
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Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings...
34) Wynne's war
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"An elite platoon of Special Forces soldiers infiltrates a forbidding Afghan war zone on horseback in search of vast treasure in this lyrical, thrilling blend of military fiction and Western"--
35) Behind the lines
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Refusing to surrender despite the odds against the American forces in 1942, a renegade Army officer organizes a resistance force while a Marine leads his team on a mission through the heart of enemy territory.
39) Copperhead
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Nate Starbuck, a young Bostonian and a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, is accused of being a Yankee spy. To prove his innocence means getting behind enemy lines.
40) One killer force
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Still recovering from his near fatal wounds suffered at the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Delta Force Commander Major Kolt 'Racer' Raynor is thrust into a new battle with some of the toughest killers he's ever faced: US Navy SEALs. Government austerity measures have the Joint Chiefs of Staff contemplating the unthinkable--combining Delta Force and the SEALs into a single unit: One Killer Force. In this installment of Fury's series, Kolt's career is...
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