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On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than 1,600 other American captives. More than 1,100 of them would be dead by journey's end... The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the Navy's medical corps, Myers arrived in Manila shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended...
16422) Loving a Warrior
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BUD/S: six months of the most intense training there is. It's survival of the toughest, and Matt Knytych is determined to come out the other side a navy SEAL.
Distraction is life or death. And just the sight of former marine Shane Hovland is enough to shake Matt's concentration.
Shane came to BUD/S training ready to prove himself-again. Semper Fi is forever, but he needs a new start. Not this dangerous heat with a man he barely knows.
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Bestselling author and former US Navy JAG Officer Don Brown's Pacific Rim series is now available in one volume! Thunder in the Morning Calm Sixty years after his grandfather disappeared in Korea, a young naval intelligence officer seeks the truth behind rumors that American POWs are still being held there. Risking his life, fortune, and freedom, he leads a daring mission into the dangerous dictatorship of North Korea-all for the love of his country...
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A shocking exposé of the covert CIA program of widespread torture, rape, and murder of civilians during America's war in Vietnam, with a new introduction by the author In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, America's Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the "Viet Cong."...
16425) The Last Humans: A New Dawn
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Penny Castro survived the biowarfare apocalypse and created a family. Her post-apocalyptic idyll on their citrus ranch is interrupted by the US government's plan to stop another attack…and get some revenge. Penny and husband Alex, along with others, are drafted to carry out the plan-in their case, forced to do so by the government's kidnapping of their young children. But the enemy has surprises awaiting them when a submarine delivers them to that...
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The best of the best-on land, in the air, on or under the seas-they are good to go, anytime...anywhere...Cold Fire
The daring rescue of a Russian scientist from the frigid waters of the Bering Sea takes clockwork precision and a team of the best SEAL commandos the military has ever trained. And failure is not an option because the conscience-stricken defector carries information that leads to a second mission of such intensity it makes the first...
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Extrait : "Depuis 1830, tous les ans plusieurs personnes déposaient à la Chambre des pétitions pour le retour en France des restes mortels de l'empereur Napoléon, et toujours ces pétitions étaient renvoyées, à l'unanimité, au président du conseil. Cette année (1840), après la formation du cabinet du 1er mars, je prévins M. Thiers, président de ce cabinet, que je lui adresserais une interpellation pour savoir quelle suite on avait donnée...
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A simplistic and informative guide to British Cavalry Swords that does not claim to be an academic treatise. The essential features are demonstrated by photographs and descriptions of swords from the author's own collection, supported by sketches of sword hilts that have not been generally publicised.
16429) The Battle of Jutland
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The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when Scheer threw his entire fleet in a mission to attack the British mainland in May 1916, he could not know that the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow were underway.
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The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson liner Athenia was sunk without warning by a German U-boat off the west coast of Ireland. From that moment onwards, British merchant seamen were constantly in the front line in all quarters of the globe....
16431) Code Name: Axel
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Raised, and trained by one of the world's most notorious assassin clans, sold off to be an agent and secret weapon for the US. She's out to prove that she's the most lethal killer on this Rock, not only must she take on America's enemies, but she must also battle with inner demons of her own. Demons who are determined to break her... We'll see.
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This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps' participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam's northernmost corps area, I Corps.This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF's perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps...
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After 41 Royal Marine Commando had cleared the Normandy beaches they faced a long overland campaign to reach the German border. The commandos developed an elite force of motorcycle dispatch riders as part of this effort. Raymond Mitchell's vivid memoirs of life and war on the road will be of interest to both military and motorcycling enthusiasts.
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Une écriture cinglante, caractérisée par un humour sauvage et macabre.
Avec ce roman, son tout dernier paru en Uruguay en 2013, Allemagne, Allemagne !, l'auteur revisite la Seconde Guerre mondiale et nous en donne une version hallucinée. Le roman se divise en trois parties de l'Angleterre bombardée o un écrivain fou et boiteux au service du contrespionnage britannique perd sa femme et ses enfants lors d'un bombardement, en passant par l'Allemagne...
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For the past 15 years, members of Tiger Force, an elite group of American paratroopers serving in Vietnam, have been, branded in the press as a rogue unit of rampaging GIs. Finally, additional research reveals the confusing rules of engagement, recorded statistics, and many previously untold personal accounts regarding this combat force's unique character and adventures.
For military and history buffs alike, the memoir explains the structure of this...
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Le parcours sinueux et semé d'embûches de Philippe B.: des frontières de l'ultra-violence et de la délinquance à l'intégration du Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale.
Philippe B. n'aurait jamais dû se trouver à la place qui fut si souvent la sienne durant ces quinze dernières années: en tête d'une colonne d'assaut du GIGN!
Élevé à la dure, son aptitude aux arts martiaux l'amène très tt aux frontières de l'ultra-violence...
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The year 1989 was crucial for Paraguay. After a long period of 35 years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was finally overthrown by a violent coup d'état. In a sort of prophetic way, he once said, "I came to power by arms and I will only leave by arms," and that came true on 2 February of that year. The 1989 Coup d'état in Paraguay discusses Stroessner's climb to power during a coup of 1954, fraudulent elections that got him reelected...
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L'équilibre d'un monde finit toujours par être bousculé par l'avidité de pouvoir...
Dans le monde de Firnen, les hommes et femmes à même de contraindre la magie à leur obéir sont regroupés en Guildes. Ces associations sont les garantes de la sécurité des pays dans lesquelles elles sont implantées. Elles veillent à ce qu'aucun de leurs membres ne soit tenté de sombrer dans une folie destructrice et de traverser le voile entre les mondes...
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Wellington's clash with Massena was one of the most remarkable contests between two commanders in the Peninsular War. These two formidable generals carried on a campaign of maneuver, battle and attrition across Spain and Portugal in 1810 and 1811 which had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war. Wellington's reputation was enhanced, Massena's was ruined.
David Buttery's close analysis of this extraordinary encounter offers a penetrating insight...
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This Omnibus ebook contains the two-volume collection of essays, edited by Gary Gallagher, that covers the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1862 and 1864.1862:This volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation as the Confederacy's greatest military idol. The authors address questions of military leadership, strategy and tactics, the campaign's political and social impact,...