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Punk's War

Ward Carroll

Punk's War

An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace. From the opening chapter where a Tomcat fighter squadron's commanding officer botches an intercept of a hostile Iranian F-4 to the final uplifting scene, his novel reveals the inner workings of the military as only an insider can. It is a thriller without an airshow groupie's pretense, a fighter pilot's story as...

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Ward Carroll

Escape from Baghdad!

Saad Hossain

Escape from Baghdad!

Two down on their luck black-marketeers, Dagr and Kinza, have inherited a very important prisoner: the former star torturer of Saddam’s recently collapsed Ba’athist regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him to Mosul. With the heat on, they enlist the help of Private Hoffman, their partner in crime and a U.S. Marine, who undertakes to help them escape the authorities.But getting out of Baghdad is no easy task. The city is crawling with traps...

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Saad Hossain

The Deserter

Douglas LePan

The Deserter

A new edition of the classic novel by Douglas LePan. Returned from the ravages of war, met with a city that offers him only despair, a young man finds himself caught between two opposing worlds – the ordered but empty everyday life of “schedules and obligations,” and the hellish chaos of the city’s underside, a dark world of brutality and vice. Gripped with a restless passion for perfection, haunted by a brief and idealized experience of love, the hero of this poetic, experimental novel lives...

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Douglas LePan

A Good Man

Cynthia Holz

A Good Man

When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man , critically acclaimed novelist Cynthia Holz examines Izzy’s complex lifelong friendship with Phil Lewis. Izzy escapes from Nazi Germany as a young man, leaving behind his family, who later perish in the Holocaust; Phil, a war hero, stays and fights with the partisans and...

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Cynthia Holz

And All the Phases of the Moon

Judy Reene Singer

And All the Phases of the Moon

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Judy Reene Singer

Η Μοίρα Των Τεσσάρων

Powell Michael

Η Μοίρα Των Τεσσάρων

Τέσσερις νέοι από τέσσερις εθνικότητες συναντιούνται στην προπολεμική Γερμανία. Η μοίρα τους είναι να χαθούν ταυτόχρονα στον πόλεμο, σε ένα νησί του Αιγαίου. Το βιβλίο ακολουθεί τις ζωές τεσσάρων νεαρών ανδρών, του Γκόντφρεϊ του Ρολφ, του Μάρκο και του Γιάννη- όλοι τους γεννημένοι το 1920 – και των οικογενειών τους. Ο Μάρκο και ο Γιάννης κατάγονταιι από το μικρό νησί της Λέρου, που τότε ήταν μέρος της ιταλοκρατούμενης Δωδεκανήσου. Όλοι συναντιούνται το 1936 στη συγκέντρωση νέων του Νούρεμπουργκ,...

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Powell Michael

Arizona Moon

J.M. Graham

Arizona Moon

Arizona Moon describes a fictional no-name operation in Vietnam’s infamous Arizona Territory and Golf’s 1st platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines operating west of the Tu Bon River in Quang Nam Province. The story centers on a squad leader, Corporal Raymond Strader, and a Apache Indian, L/Cpl Noche Gonshayee. Strader has only three days until his thirteen month tour of duty ends, and Gonshayee, whose tribal name is Moon”, considers all anglos potential...

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J.M. Graham

Run Silent, Run Deep

Edward L. Beach

Run Silent, Run Deep

This is a story of the silent servicethe submarine crews which destroyed the Japanese merchant marine. A narrative taut with drama, told with the intimacy of a confession, it deals with two strong-headed men: their loves, their jealousies, and their destinies in the lonely and desperate struggle between the hunter and the hunted. Few war novels will rival Run Silent, Run Deep in the naked realism of its action. None will surpass its rising excitement and brilliant descriptions of men...

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Edward L. Beach

Brother's Keeper

Joaquin De Torres

Brother's Keeper

Jason Li is seconds away from pulling the trigger to end his life. <br><br>Difficult to believe considering three years ago he was on the fast track to becoming a Navy fighter pilot, following in the footsteps of his older brother and modern combat ace, Lt. Jordan Li. But now Jordan is dead; killed in what the Navy claims was a "freak accident" over the Pacific Ocean. <br><br>Jason never got over the death of his brother-his mentor, his hero. Now...

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Joaquin De Torres

Córka nazisty

Max Czornyj

Córka nazisty

CÓRKA NAZISTY to przejmująca powieść o przeszłości, która nie pozwala o sobie zapomnieć. O strasznych czasach II wojny światowej i o miłości na przekór wszystkiemu. O dzieciach, które nie powinny odpowiadać za winy swoich rodziców. I o odkupieniu, które przynosi dopiero zmierzenie się z prawdą. Czasem, by na nowo odnaleźć spokój i miłość, trzeba przejść przez piekło. Gen zła. Czy coś takiego w ogóle istnieje? Alicja Nowińska uśmiecha się do mnie. Unosi na powitanie dłoń i się wyprostowuje....

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Max Czornyj

Mulligan - A Civil War Journey (Una...

Ксюша Ангел

Mulligan - A Civil War Journey (Unadbridged)

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters.

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Ксюша Ангел

God's Sparrows

Philip Child

God's Sparrows

Author is a recognized standard-bearer for an era in Canadian literature when traditional forms and subjects were being challenged by radical social and cultural change A classic novel by the Governor General’s Award winner (1949) Author served in the First World War and used his experiences for the novel

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Philip Child

All That Glitters

Martine Desjardins

All That Glitters

In 1914, Simon Dulac enrolls in a Canadian contingent of military police, a perfect cover for his real ambitionto comb the battlefields of Europe unhindered, searching for legendary Templar treasure. There, Dulac encounters Nell, affecting and skilled, who has come to the trenches to practice suturing wounds. Together, haunted by the jealousy of their commanding officer, they pursue their desires.

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Martine Desjardins

Bitwa o Atlantyk

Samuel Eliot Morison

Bitwa o Atlantyk

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Cry Heaven, Cry Hell

Howard Gordon

Cry Heaven, Cry Hell

In Cry Heaven, Cry Hell, the author tries to open our eyes to show that even with good intentions roads can be paved to Hell. The story follows three men who lived evil ways and then repented. Two of the men die, but one remains to either be held accountable for what they all did or to have their repentant behavior be figured into the yardstick of their collective judgment. The three men are: 1) An Irishman who wipes out an entire family and flees Ireland, 2) A descendant of an Amer-Indian ally...

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Howard Gordon

Zwycięstwo na Pacyfiku. 1945

Samuel Eliot Morison

Zwycięstwo na Pacyfiku. 1945

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Dzieci żółtej gwiazdy

Mario Escobar

Dzieci żółtej gwiazdy

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Mario Escobar

Lista Schindlera

Thomas Keneally

Lista Schindlera

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Thomas Keneally

Quattro Destini

Powell Michael

Quattro Destini

Quattro giovani di quattro nazionalità si incontrano in Germania prima della guerra. Il loro destino è di morire contemporaneamente in guerra in un isola dell'Egeo. l libro racconta le vite di quattro giovani uomini, tutti nati nel 1920, Godfrey (inglese), Rolf (tedesco), Marco (italiano) e Yiannis (greco) e delle loro famiglie. Marco eYiannis provengono dalla piccola isola di Leros, all'epoca parte delle isole del Dodecanneso governate dall'Italia. Si incontrano tutti nel 1936 al raduno della...

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Powell Michael