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820L
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It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: "Operation Eagle", SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
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In the death throes of World War II, one man is still at war, and he’s got got the world’s deadliest weapon in his hands . . .
With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft . . .
It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the...
With a sniper’s rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft . . .
It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the...
4) Love and war
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"The continuing saga of two families - the Hazards and the Mains. From the first shots at Fort Sumter, both families are divided against each other - and themselves. Some will experience the horrors of war on the front lines of some of the bloodiest battlefields of the Civil War. Some will give their lives for their beliefs. But all will be caught in the triumph and tragedy of a conflict that will destroy a country's innocence - and forge a nation....
5) 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.
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680L
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Sequel to: The eagle has landed. Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London.
7) 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:...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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Commander Honor Harrinton of the Royal Manticoran Navy has been exiled for making a superior officer look foolish. Now, she is in command of an aged light cruiser patrolling a godforsaken quadrant of the galaxy. To cap it all, the local system's aborigines smoke homicide-inducing hallucinogens.On Basilisk Station (or "HH1" as it's known to the faithful) is the first instalment in David Weber's cult hit Honor Harrington series, which has charmed the...
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p1994-1996
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Honor bound: October 1942. At a secret rendezvous point off the coast of neutral Argentina, a small merchant ship delivers supplies to Nazi submarines and raiders. The OSS is determined to sabotage the operation by any means necessary. But one of the key saboteurs must fight his own private battle between duty and honor. Because he was chosen for a reason -- to gain the trust and support of his own flesh and blood. A powerful Argentinian called...
11) Black cross
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In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
12) The unlikely spy
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A World War II spy novel about a beautiful Nazi secret agent and her pursuer, a former history professor turned spy catcher. The setting is England, the time just before the D-Day landings. A first novel.
13) 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.
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This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
16) Strike force
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On the run from the Pasdaran, the theocrat's terror army, and unable to count on support from his friends in the regular army, Iranian rebel leader General Hesarak al-Kan Buzhazi desperately turns to his old nemesis, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan, for help. Unwilling to commit American forces in an Iranian civil war, and with time running out, the U.S. president authorizes McLanahan to utilize a new, top-secret fleet of globe-crossing...
17) War brides
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Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival...
19) Shadow command
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General Patrick McLanahan, commander of the new Aerospace Battle Force, ignores directives from the White House and Pentagon to stand down and orders the ABF to attack secret Russian bases in Iran in an attempt to thwart Russian aggression.
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The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. On the 30th April 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi administration was in ruins. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's secretary and eminence grise had a daring...
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