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Continuing from Book I (Hessian John, 19th Century Military Surgeon, that ended in 1849) and Book II (Hessian John, Army Surgeon in the Pioneer West that ended in 1861), 44-year-old Mississippi plantation-owner Johann becomes a Confederate Army surgeon helping to organize the Souths medical corps and serving briefly as a Southern spy in the Unions medical headquarters in Washington. While in the Union Army, he serves as a battlefield surgeon in the...
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Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear, concise manner. Containing more than two hundred examinations of different aspects of the war, the book questions why the American military ignored the lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes the use of group think and mind control by the North Vietnamese;...
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Seventh Company's Lieutenant Morozova and Sergeant Rozhkov fight to survive in a frighteningly possible real future. One where autonomous war machines roam the battlefield, enemies without fear that do not stop until destroyed.
A full throttle, combat-grade military action, "Year One: The Last War," collects the stories from Mission One, Regroup, and Break Out into one volume, expanding the explosive ongoing story of a future Russian civil war.
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Amber Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
448 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A highly illustrated guide to aircraft, tanks, and warships from the beginning of the Cold War to the present day. Includes main battle tanks, antitank vehicles, armored personnel carriers, amphibious tanks, fighter jets, interceptors, bombers, transport aircraft, Stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. Each entry is illustrated with a full-color artwork, showing its characteristics and markings in detail, alongside detailed...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
Description
From the Post-Civil War military to the wild frontier, the demand for firearms was growing. The need for inexpensive and quickly produced firearms sparked invention and continued the evolution of the gun.
8) Firestorm
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 94 min.)
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English
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After suffering heavy losses of aircraft during attacks on German factories, Winston Churchill orders cities to be targeted in order to smash German morale and reduce the number of workers available for the Nazi war machine. Hundreds of thousands of German civilians are killed as incendiary bombs turn the center of cities like Hamburg and Dresden into tornados of fire. Sixty years later, a new debate is underway over the reasons for this lethal bombing...
9) Soldier Mine
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Lizzy Ford
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Standalone novel in the Sons of War military romance series. Petr's life changed overnight when an ambush not only killed his twin, but left him wounded beyond repair as well. Tormented by that night, he struggles to put his life back together and to find purpose in the support role his injury forces him to take. Yet his heart and soul ache to be with his buddies at war, and nothing seems soothe the hole inside him. Until he meets Claudia, the sister...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
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English
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"For over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. Playing War argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 51 min.)
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English
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In 1941, Hitler ordered the German Army to invade Russia. The Nazis raced across Russia's heartland until they reached Leningrad - the cradle of the Bolshevik Revolution. But the city did not fall quickly to Hitler's troops. Instead it resisted. The siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941 and ended on January 27, 1944. For 872 days the city was surrounded. Within, the inhabitants fell into despair, starvation and cannibalism. Well over a million...
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GS Learning Library
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : col. ill., map ; 26 cm.
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English
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A discussion of ancient Roman warfare, looking at camps, weapons and equipment, sea battles, and leaders, and considering the reasons why the Romans were so successful at war.
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