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1) The Pacific
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The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.
Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From...
Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From...
2) Battle ready
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
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Battle Ready follows the evolution of General Zinni and the Marine Corps from the cauldron of Vietnam through the operational revolution of the '70s and '80s, to the new realities of the post-Cold War, post 9/11 military.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2021]
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English
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The author of "Craig & Fred" describes how his devoted canine companion and he visited Maine State Prison to work beside inmates who serve purposeful time in prison by training service dogs for disabled veterans.
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English
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“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college...
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Bloomsbury
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2018.
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English
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Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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2021.
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English
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"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--
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Bantam Books
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1987.
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English
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"The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave new definition to "hell-raising"on the ground and in the skies. Pappy himself was a living legendhe personally shot down 28 Japanese planes, and won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. He broke every rule in the book in doing...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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A rifleman's account of the Pacific War shares his experiences as a member of the fabled 1st Marine Division, describing the loss of his sister in childhood, the brush with the law that led to his enlistment and the harsh lessons he learned about bravery, death and survival.
20) A rumor of war
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Picador, Henry Holt and Company
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2017.
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English
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In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern historys ugliest wars, he returned homephysically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone.A Rumor of War is far more than one soldiers story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered Americas indifference to the fate of the men sent to fight...
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