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Chief Boiler Technician Phillip Keith is just three weeks short
of his much-anticipated retirement. Spoiled by his post with a
modern class cruiser, Keith is counting on an easy voyage to the
United States from the Philippines. When fate intervenes, he is
reassigned to an old World War II destroyer, the USS "Biscay," to
ensure its safe return to the States.
As he boards the vintage destroyer, alarms sound in Keith's
head, alerting him that something is amiss. His instincts are
right: the captain asks him to secure proof that the ship is being
used to smuggle drugs. Keith and Kris Palmer, a woman with whom
Keith shares an undeniable chemistry, set out to uncover the
smuggling operation.
Unfortunately for the pair, the drug ring leader vows to stop at
nothing, even murder, to get his cache stateside.
As Keith, Kris, and the smugglers' paths intersect, a violent
storm sends them plummeting into the cold dark waters of the
Pacific. Not even the ship's mascot, a loyal beagle, can save them
now.
This action-packed novel with a compelling spiritual message
about courage, faith, and destiny will both entertain and
inspire.
Tony Marino has reached a crossroads in life. With high school
commencement just two weeks away, Marino is definitely ready to
explore the world that lies outside Cleveland, Ohio. But times are
tough in 1949, leaving Marino only one viable option-to join the
navy. As he enlists, he has no idea that the Korean War is about to
break out. Soon after his ship is assigned to action in Korea,
Marino is sent on an undercover mission with two shipmates, Sully
and Peacock, to provide valuable information to General MacArthur,
who is planning an invasion of Inchon. As his mission increases in
intensity, Marino and his shipmates bravely face great danger as
they scout out three islands, gather critical information, and
finally return safely to the ship. But as the war progresses, it is
not long before their ship is assigned to help in the evacuation of
Hungnam in North Korea-a fateful decision that leads Marino and
Sully to imprisonment in a clandestine hospital known for its
inhumane experiments. In this military thriller loosely based on
real-life events, two American sailors must rely on the CIA and a
beautiful Korean girl to escape-before it is too late.
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Ninety Days
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Sonny Gratzer
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Deep within a Vietnamese jungle, an inexperienced American unit
has just been ambushed. As their infantry battalion commander is
led through the darkness by a rope tied around his neck, branches
tear at his body as he stumbles with exhaustion. Lieutenant Colonel
Steven Marion is a great prize for the North Vietnamese, and now he
is officially a prisoner of war.As the American military attempts
to determine whether he is alive or dead, Marion is marched off to
a prison camp in Cambodia where he is hypnotized by the enemy, who
hope to return him back to the United States to spout anti-American
propaganda. But little do they know that the man who guards Marion
is carefully developing a plan to defect to South Vietnam--with the
help of his American prisoner. Meanwhile back home in America,
Marion's wife, Elaine, is notified that her husband is dead. As she
quietly moves on with her life and marries again, Elaine has no
idea that Marion is still alive.Ninety Days is the compelling story
of an American battalion commander who must battle to survive in
war-torn Vietnam as the life he knew back home slowly crumbles.
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of riflemen join the
assault of a strong French force holding the Holy City of Santiago
de Compostela. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of
Riflemen are cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded.
Their only hope of escape is to accept the help of the Spanish, but
this assistance comes at a price: to join the assault on the holy
city of Santiago de Compostela, held by a strong French force.
There is little Sharpe would enjoy more. Soldier, hero, rogue -
Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he
joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer
brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the
95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
SOUTH VIETNAM--1965--INITIAL MILITARY BUILDUP
Lieutenant David Jeffries is deployed with a company of army
engineers to a backward country where foreign combatants have
invaded rural areas and insurgents threaten urban centers. There,
faced with conflicting goals of supporting allied combat units and
befriending local civilians, he struggles to identify and deal with
the principles of right and wrong conduct.
Jeffries wants to be a good soldier, but he finds that difficult
because of puzzling ethical choices he has to make. He unwittingly
faces life-threatening combat situations with conditioned courage
when called upon to support the 101st Airborne and the 1st Air
Cavalry Division. He reluctantly becomes embroiled in political
struggles over policies regarding civilians. Influenced by people
with diametrically opposed philosophies--Captain John Slaughter, an
Airborne Ranger, and Lieutenant Joe Goodrich, a self-declared
peacenik--Jeffries tries to find acceptable common ground through a
passed-over major who is due to retire and two trusted but
misguided sergeants.
From the battlefields to the brothels, from the tents to the
temples, "Noble Conflict" gives a unique perspective of
unconventional war through the eyes of a trained soldier trying to
do his ethical best under unusual circumstances and preconditions
established not by him, but by others.
In August 1956 a troubled teen-age boy runs away from home, seeking
the grand adventures he has only read about. Lying about his age he
enlists in the Coast Guard at fourteen. A decade later, his career
takes him to Vietnam where he is awarded the Silver Star Medal for
gallantry. Returning home, he begins a new career as an undercover
narcotics agent. Undergoing torture when his cover is blown, he
prays for rescue.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
It is September, 1940, and the Battle of Britain is not going
well for the Germans. The RAF Spitfire, powered with a high
performance carburetor made with platinum parts, is outperforming
the Messerschmitt. Gold and platinum, smuggled out of the Andes in
1939 by a German elite force, lies at the bottom of the Caribbean
Sea off Margarita Island. Retrieval of this strategic ore will
allow the Germans to refit their fighters with a new ignition
system and reverse their declining fortunes. Adolph Hitler himself
authorizes a mission, code named Black Eagle, to recover the sunken
gold and platinum from the sea bottom and return it to Germany.
With the aid of the IRA and an Irish marine recovery vessel and
specialists, the German mission, comprising an armed tender and two
U-boats, play a game of "blind man's bluff" with British and
American forces, the Germans intent on recovering the sunken cargo,
the Allies intent on stopping it. Professor Jack Ford, a group of
British commandoes and a patched-together Allied naval force of
subs and surface craft are all that stand in the way of a
successful German mission. The challenge on both sides is filled
with twists of events making it uncertain who to trust and which
way to turn. Anything is possible.
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight.
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Linton wants one final adventure with her friends before the school holidays are over. Packed in Ellie's parents' land rover they drive to the famously isolated rock pool Eden dubbed 'Hell' by the locals. Returning to their home town of Wirrawee, the seven teenagers realize that something is seriously wrong. Power to the houses has been cut, pets and livestock have been left dead or dying, and most alarmingly of all, everyone's family has vanished.
When the hostile armed forces discover that the teenagers are lying low in the vicinity, Ellie and her friends must band together to escape, outwit and strike back against the mysterious enemy that has seized control of their town and imprisoned their friends and loved ones...
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