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"The Return of the Soldier" is British author Rebecca West's remarkable 1918 novel of the struggle of a World War I veteran and the three women who love him as he returns home and tries make sense of the life that he had before he went to war. Told from the perspective of his cousin Jenny, who lives with him and his wife Kitty, it is the story of British soldier Chris Baldry, who has just returned home from fighting in France. Chris has amnesia and...
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Beautifully broken volume 2
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Ex-Army Ranger Gabriel Vincent is a badass hero. Or he used to be. Home from Afghanistan, Gabe can't stop thinking about that one horrible night on the battlefield, a night that changed his life forever. He knows he's messed up, but with the help of a little beer and a lot more women, he's keeping it together. Until he meets Madison Hill. Madison is happily single-or so she thinks. After the tragic death of her parents, she took on the responsibility...
3) Stella Bain
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"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
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John Madden novels volume 1
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Inspector John Madden, sent by Scotland Yard to investigate the murders of five people in a small Surrey village, detects the signs of a madman at work, and joins Dr. Helen Blackwell, a criminal psychologist, to stop the killer before he strikes again.
5) Top soldier
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William Lee Braden was no Secessionist, no slave owner. In fact, when the polls opened in Jacksboro, Texas on February 23, 1861, Braden rode twelve miles up Lost Creek from his small ranch not only to vote against Secession, but on his ballot, right next to his signature, he wrote "For the Union forever." But come the fall of 1861, William Lee Braden rode off to join his brother Jacob in Harrisburg to fight, not for the Confederacy, but rather to...
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[1995]
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In New York, a man standing by the side of assistant U.S. attorney Owen Gray is shot. The next day another man by his side is shot. It is a message from a Russian sniper with whom Gray tangled in the Vietnam War. The Russian wants a rematch, sniper versus sniper. A bloody duel follows in a valley in Idaho. By the author of Ringer.
8) Regeneration
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Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 1
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770L
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In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such sad cases.
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