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1) The captains
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Brotherhood of war volume 2
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English
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"It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace..."--
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Dick Canidy and his colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face a great task--to convince Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the European continent will take place anywhere but on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. All it will take is one slip to send the whole mission tumbling down like a house of cards...
4) Close combat
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Corps volume 6
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English
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The members of the Marine Raiders embark on a top secret mission from which they may never return.
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The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two...
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Men at war volume 4
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English
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Early in 1943, adventure crackles across the globe from the Philippines to Budapest, and from Washington to Cairo.
8) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
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English
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In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps-and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their...
9) The aviators
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Brotherhood of war volume 8
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English
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As the Vietnam War begins to escalate, the U.S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division. Old faces and new are swept into the struggle as hostilities increase.
10) Honor bound
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Honor bound volume 1
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English
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It is fall 1942. First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Spanish-speaking Marine aviator ace fresh from Guadalcanal, is suddenly called to a meeting with a Colonel Graham. Shortly thereafter, so too are Army demolitions expert and parachutist Second Lieutenant Anthony Pelosi, and Army Staff Sergeant and multilingual Counterintelligence Corps special agent David Ettinger, a communications expert who has already escaped from German hands in Europe. The three...
11) The generals
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Colonel Felter calls on his friends and comrades to carry out a daring rescue mission to save Major Parker from the prisoner of war camp in Vietnam where he is being held captive.
12) The berets
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Brotherhood of war volume 5
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English
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Special Forces during the Viet Nam War.
13) Behind the lines
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Corps volume 7
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English
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On the island of Mindanao, a man calling himself "General" Fertig has set himself up as a guerrilla leader to harass the Japanese. Army records show that the only officer named Fertig in the Philippines is a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Engineers, reported MIA on Luzon, but still, the reports filtering out are interesting, and it's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind the lines and find out if he's for real.
14) In danger's path
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During World War II, the OSS mounts a mission to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to set up a weather station for aerial attacks against the Japanese. By the author of Brotherhood of War.
15) Line of fire
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While the bloody battle for control of the Solomons rages on, two Marines are trapped at a Coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island. They are there to report on Japanese air activity, and their position is becoming increasingly perilous, even while their supplies are diminishing rapidly; if they are not rescued soon, they may never make it off the island. On the orders of newly-commissioned Marine Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, a team is assembled:...
16) The spymasters
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Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' threatened efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission targeting Germany's aerial torpedo munitions while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.
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