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Author
Series
Electra McDonnell novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FIRST RULE: DON’T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION.
Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick’s locksmith business just can’t pay the bills anymore.
SECOND RULE: DON’T MAKE MISTAKES.
So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he enlisted in the...
Author
Series
World War I novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document-allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that...
84) The last heroes
Author
Series
Men at war volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st G.P. Putnam's Sons ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German friend Eric Fulmar are selected by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to find a rare ore that is necessary to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead. Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In July of 1917, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister, Judith, struggle to cope with the devastation of World War I while their brother Matthew searches for the sinister figure known as the Peacemaker who is trying to stop Britain from winning the war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 560 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion...
88) A world away
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
James and Anne Langer, having moved to a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons during World War II to care for James's aging father, await word from their older son Rennie who is off fighting somewhere in the Pacific, while trying to deal with their own, more personal conflicts on the homefront.
89) Potsdam station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In April 1945, Hitler's Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth. John Russell's son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets' final onslaught. In Berlin, Russell's girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care...
90) Thunder point
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
British agents search for the secret diaries of Martin Bormann that reveal British Nazi sympathizers and the secret plan Protocol.
91) The cruel sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xvii, 426 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys during World War II. Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves. Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter and chilling...
92) American war
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is...
Author
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leander and Polly are two teenage Union soldiers who carry deep, dangerous secrets. Leander is underage when he enlists and Polly follows her father into war disguised as his son. The war proves life changing for both as they survive incredible odds. Leander struggles to be accepted as a man and loses his arm as a consequence. Polly mourns the death of her father, endures Andersonville Prison, and narrowly escapes the Sultana steamboat disaster. As...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
519 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith struggle to bring peace to the Western Front in the final days of World War I while their sibling, Matthew, brings startling news from a sinister ideologue who may undermine their efforts.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her 'little problem' taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 574 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton's army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence...
98) The black arrow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
100) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly, she is a Sassenach -- an "outlander"--In a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues...
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