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42) Rebel
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North, and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Buff Run, the men are prepared to start a war . . . but they aren't ready...
43) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999], c1955
Edition
[S & S classic ed.].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base.
47) Message from Nam
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
xiii, 389 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
2017. It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present, which is why working with a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: among the treasures, a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform. Eager to find the author of the hauntingly beautiful, unfinished diary, Cara...
49) Close combat
Author
Series
Corps volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic novel of World War II brings the saga of The Corps into exciting arenas all over the Pacific, as American forces brace to defend Guadalcanal from an all-out effort by the Japanese to recapture the island. From Iwo Jima to Australia to Washington, old faces and new are faced with the challenge of their lives.
50) Behind the lines
Author
Series
Corps volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War II. On the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, 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. Still, the reports filtering out are interesting, and it's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind the lines and find out...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
52) Winged victory
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself.
France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . .
Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for.
There is no bitter snarl...
53) Old soldiers
Author
Series
Bolos volume 9
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Men at war volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st G.P. Putnam's Sons ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agents from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, parachute into the Belgian Congo to obtain uranium ore. A race is on between the U.S. and Germany as to who will make the first atom bomb.
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lt. Raymond Novak prefers the pulpit to the cockpit, but at least his stateside job training B-17 pilots allows him the luxury of a personal life. As he courts Helen Carlisle, a young war widow and mother who conceals her pain under a frenzy of volunteer work, the sparks of their romance set a fire that flings them both into peril. At the peak of the air war over Europe, Ray leaves to fly a combat mission. Can their young love survive until blue skies...
57) Ride to valor
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Doyle was just another Irish boy in the New York slums until the law forced him to go west. In the wide open plains he joins the U.S. Cavalry, determined to straighten out his life. But he soon discovers an enemy more brutal than those back home--the Cheyenne.
59) Insignia
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Author
Series
World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
x, 398 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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