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21101) Onslaught at New Mir
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A blast from the pastWarrant Officer Vivian Ashe. Busy Adjutant getting stuff done on New Mir Station.Old friend Admiral Queenie Baley. Ferrying diplomats on the FFC Argonaut.In a past versus future clash of cultures who will be the last woman standing.
21102) Dishonour in Camp 133
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Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back!
Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and decorated German war hero, this is the reality. Chef Schlipal has been found dead in Mess #3, a knife in his back.
Now it's up to Neumann to find out what would drive the men of the camp, brothers-in-arms,...
21103) Foo Fighters
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It is 1945 and Germany is losing the war. The Russians, the Americans, and the British are closing in on Berlin and Hitler's bunker.
In this startling end-of-the-war tale two high-ranking Nazi officials, Martin Bormann and Hermann Goering, are collaborating with Wesley Hollinger and the American OSS for free passage out of Germany in exchange for blueprints to advanced German technology -- jet fighters, rockets, missiles and early flying saucers,...
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During WW1 the North Sea became the principal battleground for the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm IIs High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also includes other important operations such as mine-laying and sweeping, the Zeppelin Offensive, the bomber offensive against the UK and complete background operational information within the area.
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21105) Disparu en Normandie, 1944
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Sentant la mort proche, André fait jurer à son fils Philippe de retrouver la trace du héros de la famille, son propre père, médecin des commandos Kieffer, disparu en Normandie en 1944. Philippe, héritier d'une tradition patriarcale vouée à la médecine et l'armée, va se lancer dans une recherche difficile et dangereuse, orientée par les précieux témoignages des vétérans, d'un oncle, ancien maquisard limousin, et les lumières d'une jeune...
21106) Doom Angel
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The final confrontation between Jonah Mason's Army and the Dark Minion Dorian Azrael doesn't just dictate the fate of the Angelkiller's resistance cell. It is the key battle in a larger, global Conflict that can turn the tide against the oncoming Armageddon. It all will come down to who survives when the smoke clears, and who will receive their final reward.Doom Angel concludes the Angelkiller Triad, following Angelkiller and Traitor Angel.
21107) Panavia Tornado
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The Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within its many different theaters of operation. The aircraft started as a European venture between Germany, Italy and the UK, based on the original swing-wing technology invented by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been successfully exported to several Middle-Eastern air forces. It is likely to remain in service for several years to come.
This book contains the world famous color profiles created by Dave Windle...
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Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmen's Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork has compiled eighty-five obituaries of outstanding aviators. With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF, RCAF, RNZAF and SAAF, there are a number of fascinating and distinguishable lives to read about. Those featured include MRAF Sir Michael Beetham, the longest-serving Chief of Air Staff in the RAF (apart...
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One of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War, this is the story of how a British officer from a quiet market town in Nottinghamshire, and with the assistance of a Vatican-based Irish Monsignor, hid an army of over 4,000 escaped POWs in and around German occupied Rome.
In this authorized edition, told by Lt Col Sam Derry, having made his second getaway of the war by jumping in broad daylight from a prison train taking him from Italy...
21110) Anzac: Sari Bair
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The August Offensive was born out of the failures of the Gallipoli landings and the subsequent battles of late spring and early summer 1915. General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, chose to play all his remaining cards in this daring and ingenious gamble that he hoped would finally turn the tide in the allies favour and bring his army up onto the heights overlooking the elusive Dardanelles. However the...
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The Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this absorbing and original study Gareth Glover focuses on these two principal events, using original source material to describe them from the British and Danish perspectives, and he shows how they fitted...
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In the deep end
When the aquatic life on Atlantis's adopted homeworld begins to threaten the city, Colonel Sheppard's team discovers that the creatures are both intelligent and able to communicate.
Another victim of the Ancient scientist, Janus, the squid-like creatures reveal how they were abducted from their own world millennia ago-and demand Atlantis's help to return home. Eager to assist, Sheppard and his team travel to the creature's homeworld...
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Much has been written about the Battle of the Somme. From July through late November 1916, British, French, and German armies fought one of the costliest battles of the twentieth century. Well over a million casualties and only a few miles of ground gained by the Allies were the result when the battle ended. Little, however, has been written about the second battle which occurred simultaneously, this one in the skies above the Somme, where for the...
21114) A Dragon's Decree
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Maxillus, who becomes the new Emperor according to primogeniture, has to sacrifice everything to bring peace to his people by seeking Ishmet, the leader of the Dragon Clan. Through the help of Amakhu, a runt Dragon, the Emperor ventures across the ocean, risking his life to challenge Osoroshī. A lone dragon bent on annihilating the Emperor's race.
21115) Night Fighters in France
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Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS distract the Nazis to allow airborne landings to go ahead? September 1944: in the wake of the successful 'Anvil' landings, the Allies plan airborne landings in the Orléans Gap. To 'soften' the enemy beforehand, they decide to drop a squadron of men and jeeps in Central France, to hit enemy positions to distract attention from the landings taking place elsewhere Operation Kipling begins when 46 jeeps...
21116) Penelope's Web
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Odysseus is returning to Ithaca after nearly twenty years-half of it spent as a soldier and the other half as a soldier of fortune. During his absence, his wife, Penelope, has remained faithful, despite Odysseus being missing and presumed dead. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he confronts those who have been trying to seduce his wife and kills them all.
Based on Homer's ancient epics, this is a novel about war and peace-and about how returning...
21117) Stealers' Sky
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The twelfth entry in the shared-world fantasy series finds wrongs righted, debts paid, and the city swathed in a mysterious dust storm.
With the completion of its new wall, Sanctuary seems peaceful and prosperous. The Beysib and Rankan invaders now favor diplomacy over military action. The wharves that once hosted only fishermen are now full of trade ships carrying merchandise to the city, and the streets, once full of warring factions, are calm....
21118) The First Indochina War
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Gale Researcher Guide for: The First Indochina War is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
21119) The Keeper
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An ex-spy struggles to dismantle a dangerous conspiracy in this explosive suspense thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. As a Naval intelligence officer stationed in the Middle East, Jade Aden was trusted with secrets that would leave most people shaking in their boots. But after the fallout from an incident during Desert Storm forced her into early retirement, Jade made a new, more pedestrian life for herself and her two children in the...
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On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.
The disaster became an international media event, mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18 ft above sea level....
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