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5) Under fire
Author
Series
Corps volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A story of the Marines and their loves and loyalties, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the beaches of Guadalcanal.
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Marine aviator Cletus Frade, Army demolitions expert Anthony Pelosi, and communications genius David Ettinger encounter intrigue in Buenos Aires in April 1943.
Author
Series
Pass in review volume 1
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
A2010-A201
Language
English
Description
Historical novel of three generations of West Point graduates serving in peace and war through the 20th century.
PASS IN REVIEW is a trilogy about men and women totally involved in their rewarding but difficult relationship of military service to country. This is a saga of a 20th Century military family … three generations and their contemporaries – some famous, some not, but all of them intensely American.
Pass in Review – DUTY is the story...
Author
Series
Pass in review volume Vol. 2
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
A2010-A201
Language
English
Description
Historical novel of three generations of West Point graduates serving in peace and war through the 20th century.
Pass in Review – DUTY is the story of Dave Nolan – part man, part legend – who leaves a small river town in Pennsylvania to chase his destiny in the Army as a professional soldier. To him the Army is more than just a career, it is the essence of who he is – his very life. From the Plain of West Point, high above the Hudson, to...
Author
Series
Pass in review volume Vol. 3
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
A2010-A201
Language
English
Description
Historical novel of three generations of West Point graduates serving in peace and war through the 20th century.
Two brothers - one a helicopter pilot, the other an infantry soldier - and a gutsy, dedicated nurse bring to life the real story of Vietnam that the news media, protestors, politicians and the public never saw or understood.
COUNTRY takes you into the cockpit of the workhorse Huey helicopter to fly with Brad Nolan on combat assaults into...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this authentic, moving account of the American War in Vietnam, bestselling author, Charles L. Templeton, offers us a glimpse into the surreal conundrums experienced by American and Vietnamese youth in the war. Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam, is a spellbinding tale of young men in combat. It is the story of George Orwell Hill, a Marine helicopter crew chief, known to his fellow Marines as G.O. Hill joins the Marines and enters the American War in...
14) Battleground
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Marine Corps soldiers fight in the Pacific in the bloody months spanning the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
Author
Language
English
Description
Included in this frequently inspiring and often poignant volume of plays, originally published in 1985, are works penned in the same era as the Vietnam War from some of the most revered playwrights in the national canon. The challenging work within-from playwrights like Terrence McNally, Emily Mann and David Rabe-reflects on the social and political ethos of this pivotal moment for America. Plays include Streamers by David Rabe, Botticelli by Terrence...
16) The right fight
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
17) The German wife
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Language
English
Description
Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, Jurgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. Jurgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if Jurgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950--Jurgen is one of many German scientists pardoned and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Following on the heels of The Wings of Morning, the first book in Murray Pura's Snapshots in History series, comes this compelling saga of the Civil War.
In April 1861, Lyndel Keim discovers two runaway slaves in her family's barn. When the men are captured and returned to their plantation, Lyndel and her young Amish beau, Nathaniel King, find themselves at odds with their pacifist Amish colony.
Nathaniel enlists in what will become the famous Iron...
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