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"Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban." --
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On April 12, 1862—one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War—a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infiltrated Georgia and stole a steam engine called the General. Racing northward at speeds near sixty miles an hour, cutting telegraph lines, and destroying track along the way, Andrews planned to open East Tennessee
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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"Full of ambushes and firefights…From page one I knew I wanted to be a SEAL. The more I read, the more I wanted to see if I could measure up." -Mark Owen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of No Easy Day… Because it's a novel, the truth can be told. Because it's the truth, you'll never forget it... Gene Wentz's Men in Green Faces is the classic novel of Vietnam that inspired a generation of SEALs. Here is the story of a good soldier trained...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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A soldier returns to Vietnam in search of gold bullion which disappeared during the war. The soldier, Phil Broker, now a Minneapolis policeman, is asked to accompany Nina Pryce, a Desert Storm veteran and daughter of the officer falsely accused of stealing the gold. By finding it, she hopes to clear her father's name. By the author of Hunter's Moon.
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2016.
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English
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"Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vermork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientists and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList.
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Orion Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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Shelby Stanton, the author of six highly acclaimed books on the Vietnam War, presents the definitive work on the U.S. Army Rangers of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (the "Lerps"), the teams specially selected for extremely dangerous scouting and raiding missions. This authoritative, action-packed account is the first and only complete history of the U.S. Army Rangers in Vietnam. U.S. Army long-range patrol and ranger units in Vietnam highlighted...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Until the war in Iraq, the Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Alliance fighters into cohesive units. But in the almost nine years since, Special Forces units have forgone their previous mission, instead focusing on offensive raids. With time running short, the Green Berets are going...
