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Gulf War Journal volume 6
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English
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "Scud Alley". Scott "Journal" Neithammer, sick of being herded like cattle with the rest of the press corps, controlled, and contained while being spoon-fed what the U.S. military command wants him to know, strikes out on his own into the desert with his photographer....
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Gulf War Journal volume 7
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "11-Charlie". Escaping their Iraqi captors only leaves "Journal" and his photographer lost in the desert and many miles behind enemy lines. It becomes evident that danger takes more than one form. Friendly fire can make you just as dead as Saddam's army, and...
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Gulf War Journal volume 3
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "Turn and Burn". Scott "Journal" Neithammer gets his feet on the ground and meets his photographer, a young man from Sri Lanka, Gajaba. "Journal" only had a companion photographer once in his career back in Vietnam and it didn't work out well. But the air war...
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Gulf War Journal volume 4
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English
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "Patriot". B-52s hammer Baghdad with relentless carpet-bombing taking out Saddam's "eyes and ears" in the form of his electrical grid and radar capabilities. On TV, the horror of the war is brought into American homes with stark reality as downed American pilots...
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Gulf War Journal volume 8
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "Khafji". The Iraqis do the unthinkable! Brazenly, Saddam's tanks rolled into Saudi Arabia biting off much more than they could crew! Much more. Kicked out of the war zone, Scott "Journal" Neithammer languishes in the rear while the allies beat the Iraqi Army...
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Gulf War Journal volume 9
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English
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Harvey Award Nominee comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed Vietnam Journal books. This Issue: "Ground War". The hammer falls on the occupation Iraqi forces! Panicking troops steal anything that will run and try to escape north toward Baghdad only to be slaughtered in a shooting gallery of death! But the joy for Scott 'Journal' Neithammer" at the end...
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"It didn't take long for them both to make a mistake they could never hope to repair."
Johann Brandt picks up the pieces of his life after the destruction of his resistance cell. On the run from his SS brother Erich Brandt, he moves around Warsaw never knowing if death is just around the corner. But when a strange neighbour confronts him about Marek Goryl, Johann uncovers a plan that could destroy millions all over Europe.
Elsewhere in the city,...
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Gulf War Journal volume 5
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English
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HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books. January 1991. The ground war to oust Saddam Hussein by United States and coalition forces from Kuwait has begun. Scott 'Journal' Neithammer has come out of retirement and finds himself and his photographer lost in the desert and many miles behind enemy lines. It soon becomes...
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Civil War a narrative volume 1-9
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9 volumes : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
30) American war
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333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned...
31) Heart of War
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1968: Vietnam. Deep in the battle ravaged jungle twelve US Marines confront an enemy infinitely more terrifying and savage than the Viet Cong. An immortal evil. An agent of the apocalypse lurks watching… Waiting… 1988: Manhattan; the economic hub of global commerce. Six survivors must reunite to destroy the bloodthirsty horror they believed defeated and buried decades ago. These six ex-marines are about to discover that some wars never end…...
32) Against War
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Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and detailed argument against armed combat on humanistic grounds. It's a must-read for anyone who has strong feelings about the moral and ethical dimensions of militaristic undertakings. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and...
33) Our War
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Imagine a small county where an hour's drive takes you from rural Amish country covered with grape vineyards through once-proud small towns now rampant with crime ending in an impoverished Native American Reservation. Imagine the plight of the law-abiding residents of the small towns suffering through having to pay for a metropolis 450 miles away as well as political tyrants failed policies. Imagine safe neighborhoods once full of beautiful, well-maintained...
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Excerpt: "If the intelligent foreigner, who is supposed to make so many interesting and novel observations on the aspect of the countries he visits, and on the manners of the people among whom he travels, were to visit the United States at this juncture, he would fail to detect any marked indication of the extraordinary crisis which agitates the members of the Great Republic, either at the principal emporium of its commerce, or at the city which claims...
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Gulf War Journal volume 5
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English
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HARVEY AWARD NOMINEE comic writer and artist Don Lomax assembles his Gulf War comic series and brings back the central character from his critically acclaimed VIETNAM JOURNAL books. THIS ISSUE: "Warthog". Scott "Journal" Neithammer's Sinhalese photographer shocks even war weary Neithammer with the story of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait with firsthand, eye-witness testimony of the brutality of the Iraqi army of butchers. Resistance groups fought back...
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Civil War volume 3
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xx, 495 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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"New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war. Summer, 1863. The Federal triumph at Vicksburg has secured complete control of the...
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