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Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Learn the amazing history of war machinery and weapons in this comprehensive, 13-part documentary series which chronicles the earliest weaponry of a primitive era through the most technologically advanced machines used by the armed forces around the world. From gunpowder to the Gatling gun, the first tank to the latest unmanned drones, the mechanisms and machinery man has created to wage war and the historical achievements across land, sea and air...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille--writing with his son, screenwriter Alex DeMille--about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation"--
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Series
Language
English
Description
This classic interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's famous Book of Five Rings is explicitly intended for the martial artist--as Miyamoto Musashi originally intended. It explains the underlying truths necessary for a full understanding of Musashi's message for warriors. The result is an enthralling book on military strategy that combines the instincts of the warrior with the philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and Taoism. It is a crucial...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating--and every bit as entertaining--as the ones that made it. Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how twenty-one plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there's a scheme to strap...
45) The Presidio
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don't like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Shares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.10
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting-the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce-they expect orders for their...
Author
Series
Blue Gemini volume 1
Publisher
Yucca Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott Ourecky wanted to fly he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret military space program. Based on a real secret space program, Blue Gemini combines high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a modern Cold War thriller.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this general-interest book, historian Guy de la Bédoyère takes us into the day-to-day life of a soldier in the imperial Roman army. His compelling narrative draws on archaeological evidence and the words of Roman historians and of the soldiers themselves, especially through their religious dedications, tombstones, private letters, and graffiti. The result is a window on how the men, their wives, concubines, and children lived, whether in bleak...
56) Taps
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
"When a fiercely devoted group of military school cadets learns that their school is being sold to real estate developers, they refuse to accept defeat-- instead choosing to rise up together to protect the academy and their honor. But the brave young soldiers soon learn that the most courageous decisions can sometimes have unexpected and even fatal consequences!"--Container.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia", asked:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
59) Uniform justice
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Language
English
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A young cadet in Venice's elite military academy has been found hanged, a presumed suicide. Commissario Guido Brunetti is given the case but has difficulty working with a community more concerned with the reputation of the school than the truth. As Brunetti pursues the case he is faced with a wall of silence from everyone involved, including the boy's father. Brunetti is left to wonder if the military protecting its own or has he uncovered a conspiracy...
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