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"Between April 17 and May 2, 1863, Union cavalry colonel Benjamin H. Grierson led a brigade of horse soldiers on a raid through Mississippi. Not only did the raid break the main railroad supplying the Confederates at Vicksburg, but it also took the attention of the Confederate commander John C. Pemberton. He became fixated with the lesser threat while Ulysses S. Grant's army crossed the Mississippi River in the other direction, dooming Vicksburg and...
2) The Preserve
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"Who will reap the rewards of war? Hawaii, 1948: Troubled WWII hero turned deserter Wendell Lett desperately seeks a cure to his severe combat trauma, and The Preserve seems to be his salvation. Run by Lansdale, a mysterious intelligence officer, and Lett's ambitious wartime XO Charlie Selfer, the secretive training camp promises relief from the terrors in his mind. Together with Kanani Alana, a tough-minded Hawaiian also looking for a new start at...
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A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being becoming personal pilot to Adolf Hitler. Hitler, who loathed flying, felt safe with Baur and would allow no one else to pilot him. He relaxed in Baur's company and talked freely of his plans and of his real opinions about his friends and allies. Baur was also present during some of the most salient moments of the Third Reich; the Rohm...
4) Stinger
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Out of the frying pan, and into the fire...
Sickened by the bloody toll of a war that cost the lives of friends and the woman he loved, RAF pilot Sean Riever transfers units, heading for the remote mountains of Afghanistan.
His work there with the mine-clearance teams takes him as close to the shadow of war as he ever wants to get again.
But when a British passenger plane is shot down by a Stinger missile over the east coast of America, Sean is...
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Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable institutions.
Mark Stevens, the best-selling author of Broadmoor Revealed, is a professional archivist and expert on asylum records. In this book, he...
6) Shot at Dawn
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The issue of military executions during the war has always been controversial and embargoes have made it difficult for researchers to get at the truth. Now these two writers give us a vast amount of information. They show that trials were grossly unfair and incompetent. Many of the condemned men had been soldiers of exemplary behaviour, courage and leadership but had cracked under the dreadful strain of trench warfare. This acclaimed book is the authority...
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This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of U.D.I. (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against the "guerillas" by the security forces and the intensity of the fighting will surprise readers. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides...
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Doctors Pulaski volume 6
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"You can go back to being the city's dark knight."
Dr. Aleksandra Pulaski tells officer Zane Calloway exactly what she thinks when he shows up in her E.R. with a bullet wound. But Zane isn't leaving her E.R. too fast. A former domestic violence case went bad, and now Alyx's life is in danger. With Zane her only hope...;.
Zane reluctantly signs up to be Alyx's bodyguard. Trouble is, he could get used to having the infuriating beauty around-;permanently....
10) Yellow Rain
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When an Afghan village becomes paralyzed by the Soviets' new warfare, and a thick nerve gas suffocates innocent people, rumors of a deadly weapon find their way to the Pentagon-and into the hands of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Schad. Along with his three-man team, Lieutenant Colonel Schad will lead one of the riskiest covert operations known to the US Department of Defense in order to find one unexploded cylinder of Yellow Rain. But are these men up against...
11) Order of Battle
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Order of Battle details the ferreting out and destruction of the vaunted Nazi Werewolf terrorist organization on the eve of the attempted assassination of General Eisenhower. This thrilling account is based on Ib Melchior's own experiences as a counterintelligence agent during World War II, and has been published in fifteen countries.
12) Night work
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The author of Long Range Patrol delivers a new novel of LRP action in Vietnam. Assigned to Juliet Company LRPs, Captain Jim Hollister's mission is to find, fix, and kill Viet Cong. Night inserts, terrifying landing zones, choppers under fire, and murderous VC ambushes are all part of the job.
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Lieutenant Tom Huckelbee, leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage, and Lieutenant Mike Cochran, loquacious son of an Ohio gangster, make an unlikely pair training to be Marine chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. The dynamic takes the reader from a couple of know-nothing young men straight out of flight school, to Marine aviators caught in the middle of a disorienting war.
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Following the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued the previous seventy years of the Republic, of political reform being met with violence and bloodshed, had not been resolved and once again resumed. Men such as Catiline and Clodius took up the mantle of reform which saw Rome paralysed with domestic conflict and ultimately bloodshed and murder. In the search for stability,...
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This latest step-by-step volume from Phil Reed tackles what, for many, are regarded as the ultimate expression of the ship model maker's art, the Navy Board model. These beautiful early eighteenth-century works of art are well represented in the major maritime museums both here and in the States as well as in private collections and here the author deals with the construction of a miniature 1/192 scale model of the Royal George of 1715, in which all...
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Getting shot down is just the beginning in this epic story of survival and resistance in a country crawling with Nazi soldiers during the Second World War.
They fought without glory-and without mercy.
France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at hand.
The bombing missions had gone well, and the crew of the Lancaster bomber had begun to relax. Then the Messerschmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing.
Of the...
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Tension and rivalry between France and Germany shaped the history of Western Europe in the century from 1860. Three times that hostility led to war and the invasion of France - in 1870, 1914 and 1940. The outcomes of the battles that followed reset the balance of power across the continent. Yet the German invasions tend to be viewed as separate events, in isolation, rather than as connected episodes in the confrontation between the two nations. Douglas...
19) Band of Brothers
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Danger and bravery at sea from thriller-master Alexander Fullerton.
It is early autumn 1943 and a German U-boat supply ship is sailing under heavy escort from Le Havre to the Atlantic. A mixed force of torpedo boats from Allied Coastal Forces is ordered to intercept and sink her.
Navigator Ben Quarry has other worries. His girlfriend, Rosie, is set on returning to occupied France as an SOE agent, and his former mistress, now the wife of his...
20) Out of Time
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The life of a soldier in the Australian Army wasn't an easy one. Never knowing if he was coming home or not, it was easier for Lieutenant James Everett to just stay single. He didn't like the idea of leaving someone behind that didn't know if he was alive or dead. But then he met Riley... Riley had a rule. Do not date soldiers. Especially not soldiers that are friends with her best friend, Captain Matthew Mackenzie. Matt had talked about James before,...
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