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Get the Summary of Richard Freiherr von Rosen & Robert Forczyk's Panzer Ace in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Panzer Ace" recounts the military career of Richard Freiherr von Rosen, a German tank commander during World War II. The book begins with the tense pre-war atmosphere in Oberbärenburg, Germany, and follows von Rosen's journey from his initial eagerness to join the military to his experiences on the Eastern...
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Get the Summary of Johnny Joey Jones's Unbroken Bonds of Battle in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Unbroken Bonds of Battle" by Johnny Joey Jones is a memoir that explores the profound connections formed through military service, particularly within the Marine Corps and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) community. Jones's journey begins with his decision to lead the Second EOD Company, a role he embraced out...
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Sworn soldier volume 2
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"The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their...
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"Eddie Luther, veteran and drifter, drives into the snowy woods with a bottle of sleeping pills. But instead of eternal silence, Eddie hears a whisper inside his damaged ear. Help me. He follows the call and finds a cryptic journal filled with loneliness and longing, a journal whose words seem written for him alone ..."--
6) Crosshairs
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Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 16
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NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
7) Deep freeze
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"The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff's life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water. There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal....
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Meet the forgotten members of the Greatest Generation: the war animals who guarded American coasts against submarine attack, dug out Londoners trapped in bomb wreckage, and carried vital messages under heavy fire on Pacific islands during World War II. They kept up morale, rushed machine gun nests, and even sacrificed themselves picking up live grenades.
Now Robin Hutton, the bestselling author of Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse, tells the heartwarming...
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Saving My Enemy is a "Band of Brothers" sequel like no other.
Guilt nearly killed one of the celebrated "Band of Brothers" members, Sgt. Don Malarkey. He was a hero for his service in World War II, especially in the Battle of the Bulge, yet he came to the brink of suicide, haunted by the memories of the German soldiers he killed.
Across the ocean, Fritz Engelbert was shackled in shame for having been a pawn of Hitler-he too had fought in the Battle...
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In this piercingly honest memoir, Bruce Weigl, who has established himself as one of our finest American poets, explores the central experience of his life as a writer and a man: The Vietnam War, which tore his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice. Weigl knew nothing about Vietnam before enlisting in 1967, but he saw a free ride out of a difficult childhood among volatile people. The war completely changed his life; there was a before...
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Awarded by the President of the United States in the name of Congress, the Medal of Honor commemorates those who have shaped our nation's history and continue to inspire its future with their acts of valor, humanity, patriotism, and sacrifice.
New Jersey has been credited with ninety-three honors in the state's military history. Robert Augustus Sweeney was the recipient of two non-combatant medals when he jumped into stormy waters to save a fellow...
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"Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff's department. And that's only because the sheriff is his mother -- and she's overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake's dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid epidemic. The Northwoods of Wisconsin may be a vacationer's...
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In Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage, Faith, and Fortitude, Captain David Rozelle tells the whole gripping story: from the day he had to tell his pregnant wife that he was going to war (Valentine's Day 2003) and deployed tor Operation Iraqi Freedom, to the fateful day four months later when a land mine tore off his right foot-and beyond, through months of agonizing rehabilitation to his final triumphant recertification as "Fit...
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Arriving in Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur for their part in the liberation of France, the 90-something Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans, use this opportunity to settle scores, avenge lost friends and pull off one last, daring heist before their illustrious careers are over.
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Above and Beyond the Call of Duty
In early summer, 1863 Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia began moving northward. As Lee moved toward Maryland, the Union army followed, taking a parallel path on the opposite side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. From June 9 to the beginning of July the two armies skirmished at various locations along the route. Then, from July 1 through July 3, they clashed in the epic Battle of Gettysburg....
17) Home at night
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Mercy and Elvis mysteries volume 5
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340 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Beware the blackbirds ... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room -- and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body...
18) Held
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"A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault -- a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls -- a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath...
19) Mudbound
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Criterion collection volume 1205
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1 videodisc (134 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart.
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1 videodisc (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Season three of this dark, gritty crime drama follows two concurrent mysteries: one the case of a man suffering from psychosis, desperate to find answers about a girl he saw strangled years ago. The other, the case of a government minister blackmailed by the same man's brother. However, the mystery of how these two cases connect is not the only source of driving tension. Fans of the series want to know if Cormoran and his assistant Robin end up together,...
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