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Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Draws from more than two centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat--through excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs, audio recordings, film, and blogs--to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand.
63) The soldier
Author
Series
Rise of the Jain volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Humanity, artificial intelligences, and monstrous aliens clash over control of deadly technology in this explosive beginning to Neal Asher’s newest Polity series. In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity’s Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful...
64) Born of betrayal
Author
Series
The League volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name. Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again. But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancée back into his...
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It illustrates, mostly through people's own words, what it's been like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to today's Iraq and Afghanistan. The characters include the Black Prince and Cromwell, Wellington at Waterloo, Siegfried Sassoon at the Somme, George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War and Evelyn Waugh as a commando. But there are also Americans, Frenchmen, Israelis, Russians, not to mention the women...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
Author
Series
Visitation series volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Clint Evans takes on the four thugs holding heiress Julie Rose hostage, he isn't thinking about the danger. What's got Clint in a lather is Julie herself.
69) Tarkin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's the scion of an honorable and revered family. A dedicated soldier and distinguished legislator. Loyal proponent of the Republic and trusted ally of the Jedi Order. Groomed by the ruthless politician and Sith Lord who would be Emperor, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin rises through the Imperial ranks, enforcing his authority ever more mercilessly...and zealously pursuing his destiny as the architect of absolute dominion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For Cally O'Neal and the O'Neal Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against the tyranny of Earth's Darhel allies, duty lies in the overthrow of the established order. For Major General Michael O'Neal, Cally's father, duty lies in maintaining that order to prevent a reinvasion by the dreaded Posleen.
71) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
72) Only for you
Author
Series
Sugar Lake novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Love only works when your heart is in the right place. Hers could be right next door Single mom Bridgette Dalton doesnt have time to stop and smell the rosesnot even in her own flower shop. But that doesnt mean she hasnt noticed Bodhi Booker. Her ruggedly handsome next-door neighbor would be the perfect candidate for a no-strings fling. Having loved and lost, Bridgettes not ready to hand over her heart but she could use a distraction. Bodhi has one...
73) My big brother
Author
Publisher
Star Bright Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his big brother leaves to become a soldier, a boy does what he can to take his place in the family.
74) The absolutist
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks...
75) The striker
Author
Series
Highland Guard novels volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Eoin MacLean decides to fight with Robert the Bruce, he knows he will earn the enmity of his new brides father, but he doesnt expect Margaret MacDowell, the spirited girl hes fallen in love with, to betray him. Blaming herand himself for trusting herfor the disaster that led to the death of Bruces two brothers, Eoin cuts her out of his heart and leaves her behind with no intention of ever coming back. But when Bruce puts him in charge of conquering...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to basic training, soldier. Now meet your worst nightmare . . . your drill sergeant. Even if you've never served in the military, you know the drill sergeant. The mere sight of his fatigues and the iconic "Round Brown" campaign hat strikes fear into the bravest of hearts. Drill sergeants inflict pain, demand discipline, and aren't afraid of power, aggression, and using fear as a motivational tool. But unless you've witnessed one firsthand...
78) Hero dad
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
79) Blind faith
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In order to save his family, genetically engineered ruthless soldier Nate Dean is forced to turn to the woman who betrayed him and blew his world apart.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning first novel--of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism--that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Captain Tom Barnes, leading British troops in the war zone. Two boys growing up there sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. The man who trains one boy to fight the other's father as well...
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