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"Rita Dragonette has written a strong-hearted and authentic novel
about a naive young girl and her struggle to reconcile the
dissonance between the world she sees and the world she was raised
to believe in. Judy is truly a quiet hero; you won't forget her."
-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean An
enthralling historical novel set during the peak of the Vietnam War
and told through the rare perspective of a young woman, who traces
her path to self-discovery and a "Coming of Conscience." Perfect
for fans of Kate Quinn and Heather Morris. On September 14, 1969,
Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday
by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing
so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her
future and her relationship with her military family. But Judy's
doubts have escalated with the travesties of the war. Who is she if
she stays in the army? What is she if she leaves? When the first
date pulled in the Draft Lottery turns up as her birthday, she
realizes that if she were a man, she'd have been Number One off to
Vietnam with an under-fire life expectancy of six seconds. The
stakes become clear, propelling her toward a life-altering choice
as fateful as that of any draftee. Judy's story speaks to the
poignant clash of young adulthood, early feminism, and war,
offering an ageless inquiry into the domestic politics of protest
when the world stops making sense.
The second book in Angus Watson's epic Iron Age fantasy trilogy.
Leaders are forged in the fires of war.br> Iron Age warriors Dug
and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they
must defend it. A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather
than uniting to defend their home, the British tribes go to battle
with each other -- and see Maidun as an easy target. Meanwhile,
Lowa's spies infiltrate Gaul, discovering the Romans have recruited
British druids. And Maidunite Ragnall finds his loyalties torn when
he meets Rome's charismatic general, Julius Caesar. War is coming.
Who will pay its price?
A gritty, heartwarming family saga for fans of Dilly Court, Sheila
Newberry and Maggie Hope. All they have left is each other... Life
has always been tough for May and Gus Lavender. Their father went
away to sea never to return, and then their mother falls victim to
the typhus sweeping through Liverpool. Regarded as orphans by the
authorities, May and Gus are sent to the Brownlow Hill Workhouse.
Like all workhouses, Brownlow is the last resort for the poor and
the destitute. May and Gus will have to rely on each other more
than ever if they are to survive the hardships to come...
________________________________ Make sure you've read all the
books in the Workhouse series: 1. Workhouse Orphans 2. Workhouse
Angel 3. Workhouse Nightingale 4. Workhouse Girl And don't miss
Holly Green's new series about wartime nurses: 1. Frontline Nurses
2. Frontline Nurses On Duty 3. Secrets of the Frontline Nurses
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"Ricks captures Vietnam's dust, heat, and 'fog of war' as only
someone who was there can do. His book took me back in a heartbeat:
It was so vivid I could almost SMELL it again!"--Ross Rainwater,
LTC, Aviation, USA (Retired), 1st Cavalry Division, 1970-71Set in
the dust, heat, forests and mud of Vietnam's Central Highlands,
"Revelation" is a story drawn from actual historical events. The
conflict, the action is real.When Army Captain John Davis gets the
chance at his own command during the latter days of the Vietnam
War, he eagerly accepts the job. Unknown to him, the men of his new
unit murdered the officer who had the command before him. These
killers have not been identified or caught. Davis' new boss never
even told him of the crime.Dealing with internal unit conflicts,
external bureaucratic indifference and his own fears and
weaknesses, he must still carry on with the assigned mission. In a
series of dangerous situations, Davis is at risk, but are these the
hazards of war or more murder attempts? Will he ever be reunited
with the woman he loves?
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Empire and Honor
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W.E.B. Griffin, William E Butterworth
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October 1945. The war is over. The OSS has been disbanded. But for
Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, the fight goes on...
In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret
deal with Reinhard Gehlen, head of German intelligence's Soviet
section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence on the
Soviets and their spies within the U.S. atomic bomb program,
Gehlen's people would be spirited to safety in Argentina.
Only a handful of people know about the deal. If word got out, all
hell would break loose--and the U.S. would lose some of the most
valuable intelligence sources they possess. It is up to Frade and
company to keep them safe.
But some people have other ideas...
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Gettysburg
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Newt Gingrich, William R Forstchen
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The Battle of Gettyburg was, even before the guns fell silent, a
focal point of debate, and it has become the great "what if" of
American history. The highly-acclaimed New York Times bestseller
Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert
E. Lee and his Army the victory they might have won on the fields
of Gettysburg. Thoroughly researched for five years, Gingrich and
Forstchen infuse this masterwork with dramatic battle scenes,
military strategy, and captivating period details. An important
entry in the pantheon of civil war literature, Gettysburg is a
vivid novel of the realities of war.
Bad Moon Rising is the sequel to Kellie s Curse. Set in Port
Melbourne, Australia in the 1960s, it is the engaging story of the
flamboyant Kellie Earl, her handsome and artistic brother Billy,
and their glamorous and enigmatic Russian mother, Jana Zirakov.
When Jana first arrived in Australia, she was pregnant with Kellie
and Billy was two years old. Jana hopes to put the horrors of her
past behind her and start a new life, but is bitterly disappointed.
Years later, Jana unwisely brings unsavory boyfriends into their
home and Kellie is raped. Kellie ends up killing the man. At
twenty-eight, Kellie becomes a rich widow. However, she cannot
forget her suspicions surrounding Billy s tragic death at
seventeen. She moves to Sydney where she writes popular novels
using the nom de plume B.M. Rising, for Bad Moon Rising, Billy s
favorite song. Nothing alleviates the pain over losing her brother
or can lessen the hatred of her rapist. She is also troubled by the
secrets Jana keeps about Russia. Bad Moon Rising poses the
questions: Is murder ever justified, and are killers born or
created? Although the characters are fictional, events are based on
real stories. Fantastic. I couldn t put Bad Moon Rising down It s
an intriguing novel, very cleverly written. Robert Bailey, former
editor with the Commonwealth Government Brilliant work. You are a
literary genius Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, director, Monash
Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre Maggie Main lives in Melbourne,
Australia. She is a retired English and psychology teacher. In
addition to writing Kellie s Curse and My Secret World, a book of
poetry, she has written and produced three plays. Publisher s
website: http: //sbpra.com/MaggieMain
A REGIMENT LEGEND IS MISSING. ONLY ONE MAN CAN TRACK HIM DOWN. From
No.1 bestselling SAS hero Chris Ryan comes OUTCAST, a brand new
action thriller ripped straight from the headlines.
_________________ After single-handedly intervening in a deadly
terrorist attack in Mali, SAS Warrant Officer Jamie 'Geordie'
Carter is denounced as a lone wolf by jealous superiors. Now a
Regiment outcast, Carter is given a second chance with a deniable
mission: locate SAS hero-gone-rogue, David Vann. Vann had been sent
into Afghanistan to train local rebels to fight the Taliban. But
he's since gone silent and expected attacks on key targets have not
happened. Tracking Vann through Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Carter
not only discovers the rogue soldier's involvement in a conspiracy
that stretches far beyond the Middle East - but an imminent attack
that will have deadly consequences the world over . . .
_________________ Praise for SAS legend Chris Ryan: 'Ryan writes
with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the
regiment's tactics, training, weapons and equipment' - SUNDAY TIMES
'Nobody takes you to the action better than Ryan' - EVENING
STANDARD 'Intelligent and enthralling' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'The
action comes bullet-fast' - THE SUN 'Fearsome and fast-moving' -
DAILY MAIL
Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the
not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day
Pearl Harbour; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage
hackers fight in digital playgrounds; Silicon Valley billionaires
mobilise for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own
vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the
lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes
the story even more notable is that every trend and technology in
book - no matter how sci-fi it may seem - is real. The debut novel
by two leading experts on the cutting edge of national security,
Ghost Fleet has drawn praise as a new kind of techno thriller while
also becoming the new "must-read" for military leaders around the
world.
The year is 1861, and America shudders on the brink of disunion. Elisha Eaker, scion of a wealthy Manhattan banking family, joins the Navy against his father's wishes. He does it as much to avoid an arranged marriage to his cousin, Araminta Van Velsor, as to defend the flag. Eli meets Lieutenant Ker Claiborne aboard the sloop of war U.S.S. Owanee. An Annapolis graduate who's seen action in the West Indies and the Africa Station, Claiborne is cool and competent in storm and battle, but he now faces an agonizing choice between the Navy he loves and his native Virginia. Whichever road he takes, he'll be called a traitor. With authentic nautical and historical detail, master sea-yarner David Poyer follows Eli, Araminta, Ker, and their loved ones and shipmates into a maelstrom of divided loyalties, bitter partings, stormy seas, governmental panic, political blundering, and, finally, the test of battle as the bloodiest and most divisive war in American history begins.
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Travis' father was a failed soldier, a coward and a heartless bully
who tried to disown his son. Now Travis is determined to shame him
by becoming the soldier his father could never have been - through
joining the Parachute Regiment, the elite of the British Army. His
restless urge to prove himself takes him from country to country
and from army to army, where he battles with enemies both external
and internal until he is finally able to put horror and tragedy
behind him and find honour, love and peace. 'The sounds of the
battle were like some crazy symphony, orchestrated by a mad
composer and led by an even madder conductor who had decided to
play all his heavy brass instruments at the same time and all of
his percussion, bass drums pounding amid the deafening clashes of
cymbals. His instruments were automatic rifle fire, hand grenades,
grenade launchers, claymore mines, light and heavy machine guns and
mortars. For vocals he had the screams of the wounded and dying.'
'A killer story, with a strong emotional core, powerful themes that
will touch hearts and a believable protagonist' - Kaye Jones,
History in an Hour
A Call To Arms, the fourth novel in the award-winning Cutler Family
Chronicles by William C. Hammond, features the epic saga of the
seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an ever
expanding cast of characters, including real historical figures
Captain Edward Preble, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Lieutenant
Richard Somers, Samuel Coleridge, Bashaw Yusuf Qaramanli, and
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson. Interwoven with these historical
characters is a fast-paced and gripping plot that takes the reader
from Java in the Dutch East Indies to New England at the start of
the nineteenth century, and on to Gibraltar, Tripoli, Malta,
Sicily, Alexandria, and Cairo. Set primarily in the Mediterranean
Sea during the First Barbary War (1801-1805), A Call To Arms offers
the reader intriguing and often startling insights into a young
republic's struggle to promote its principles of liberty, equality,
and free trade in a world ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars in Europe
and ruthless piracy in both the Mediterranean and Far Eastern
waters. The US Navy answers the call of an aroused nation, and the
fate of the young republic turns on the actions of a few heroic
officers, sailors, and Marines.
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to rid
Yemen of its unstoppable guerrillas? Aden, 1964, and the British
are waging two different kinds of war. Inhabitants of northern
Yemen's forbidding mountainous region of Radfan are conducting
guerrilla attacks against the British. Armed by the Egyptians and
trained by the communist Yemenis, they seem an invincible fighting
force. With only one hope of beating them, the British draft in an
even more tenacious group of soldiers - the SAS! Their mission: to
parachute into enemy territory at night, establish concealed
observation posts high in the mountains, and direct air strikes on
the rebels moving through the sun-baked passes. At the same time,
in an even more dangerous campaign, two- or three-man SAS teams
disguised as Arabs must infiltrate the souks and bazaars of the
port of Aden in an attempt to 'neutralise' leading members of the
National Liberation Front. But will their disguise allow them to
get close enough to their targets, or get out again alive...?
From Fobbit author David Abrams, Brave Deeds is a compelling novel
of war, brotherhood, and America. Spanning eight hours, the novel
follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross
war-torn Baghdad on foot to attend the funeral of their leader,
Staff Sergeant Rafe Morgan. As the men make their way to the
funeral, they recall the most ancient of warriors yet are a
microcosm of twenty-first-century America, and subject to the same
human flaws as all of us. Drew is reliable in the field but
unfaithful at home; Cheever, overweight and whining, is a friend to
no one--least of all himself; and platoon commander Dmitri "Arrow"
Arogapoulos is stalwart, yet troubled with questions about his own
identity and sexuality. Emotionally resonant, true-to-life, and
thoughtfully written, Brave Deeds is a gripping story of combat and
of perserverance, and an important addition to the oeuvre of
contemporary war fiction.
Bernard Cornwell's action-packed series that captures the gritty texture of Napoleonic warfare--now beautifully repackaged Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the army of Napoleon at Talavera in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, the men's resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must fight to redeem the honor of his regiment.
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