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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
There's a new breed of terrorist living in America.He's a
nationalized citizen educated at a prestigious university, trained
by a high-tech corporation, and all the while he's been biding his
time, building his army, waiting to strike. When he sets his
diabolical plans in motion, there's only one man and one
organization that can stop him.Jason Talbot is the leader of Strike
Squad Alpha, an elite fighting force in the Terrorism Prevention
Agency (TEPA), a secret organization within the Department of
Homeland Security. He is authorized to operate outside the law to
put a stop to terrorist attacks before they occur. But now he faces
his greatest challenge. From a hijacked oil tanker in the
Mediterranean Sea, to a castle in the woods of Northern Virginia,
to an abandoned missile base in Washington State, Jason Talbot,
aided by the capable Sarah Ruger of the NTSB, races to stop a
modern-day Armageddon.'"Engineering Evil" grips you from the
beginning and will not let you go! This author knows his way around
the guarded world of special operations. You will not be
disappointed!"-Lieutenant Colonel Storm Savage, U.S. Army
The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving
story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the
times. The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either
controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of
their family s heritage, one that stretches back through several
generations and many wars. A Dangerous Age is a celebration of the
strength of these women and of the bonds of blood and shared loss
that hold them together. Louise, Winifred, and Olivia are
reconnecting the pieces of their lives and rediscovering love, but
each is unwittingly on a collision course with a seemingly distant
war that is really never more than a breath away. By turns humorous
and heartbreaking, this finely honed novel about the centuries-old
struggle for women who are left to carry on with life when their
men go off to war is by a writer the Washington Post says should be
declared a national cultural treasure. "
Everyone is gunning for the New Guy
Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in
Vietnam--a country too beautiful to invite so savagely unreal a
war. But Gabriel won't be a New Guy for long. He'll go through
incoming mortars, he'll see the enemy alive. He'll wander through a
hell that will turn the green recruit lucky enough to survive into
a death-hardened veteran, longing for nothing more than a return to
the world of hot baths and cold beer, no bullets, and no noise.
Now, 40 years later, he is grappling with an action on the verge of
his grandson Seth's deployment to Iraq that will change both their
lives forever.
Critics Praise Don Bodey's "F.N.G"
"One of the most hard-hitting of all the vietnam novels" -- The
Boston Herald
"A powerful social document and a well-written, deeply moving
first novel...highly recommended" --The Library Journal "Raw,
profane...a candidly moving portrayal of the average American
soldier in Vietnam, who often found courage when he did not seek
it--but little of anything else." --Chicago Sun-Times
"The day to day grind, beautifully and touchingly rendered by...a
Vietnam veteran, is told with an unrelenting accumulation of
detail." --The New York Times Book Review
"Bodey packs considerable emotional freight...into a style that
remains deliberately supple, cool, and declarative...An impressive
novel." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A harrowing vividly written account of hell with a leavening of
light moments. A revelation for one who wasn't there. Painful for
those who were." -Bob Mason, author of "CHICKENHAWK"
""All Quiet on the Western Front" drives its readers to the front
of World War I. "F.N.G" helicopters its readers to a new front:
Vietnam." -Bestsellers
More info at www.DonBodey.com
The Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press
www.ModernHistoryPress.com
(an Imprint of Loving Healing Press)
Federal surgeon Erik Reichmann searches for a contraband of medical
supplies in Savannah during Sherman's March to the sea, and
discovers Layla Stuart, apothecarian, midwife, and smuggler up to
her neck in intrigue, she in a photo and letter he retrieved off
her brother a year before. Told her twin was killed by a sawbonz,
Layla believed her beau left the Yankee for dead. Erik wants
revenge and his mother's ring on Layla's finger. Trying various
means of seduction, he lodges in the Stuart household to find the
whereabouts of the shipment and Layla's beau (thought to be her
husband). He learns the truth of her marital status and against his
better judgement, cannot avoid the building flames of desire for
this willful woman. Layla wants no part of this Yankee, but she is
weak to his advances, good looks, strange philosophy and bedside
manner. Intrigue surmounts when Erik's adversary exposes the
"truth" about her twin. Although Layla loses all trust in Erik, she
realizes she's smitten. To discover the truth as much as these
feelings tearing her apart, she takes the shipment to find her
beau. Unfortunately the trap has been set. Layla is shot, literally
blinded and nearly drowned until Erik rescues and heals her back to
health. Layla discovers passion and unconditional love, and soon
Erik convinces her to marry him before he leaves Savannah. While he
follows Sherman through the Carolinas, Layla's beau returns. Blind,
she still knows the truth despite his lies, and discovers the ring
she use to wear is Erik's mother's. Maddened with jealousy, her
beau ignites a fire to Layla's shop and home. As Erik saves her
from a burning inferno, her sight returns and she is forced to make
a choice between the two loves of her life.
This is the story of a skinny Italian boy from an immigrant
Sicilian family who goes to war to fight for his country and ends
up playing the taps on Mount Suribachi as the colors are raised.
Travel with Peter as he explores the journey from boyhood to
manhood and experiences a terrible battle in the fight for American
freedom along the way. Learn the Sirna family secret and what it
meant to Peter to be a real American boy; but most of all, take the
time as Peter did to give tribute to those brave American men and
boys who died on the battlefield of Iwo Jima. This is Peter's
story, the story of the boy who played the taps on Iwo Jima.
Jerome Brown, twenty-two, is on his last tower guard duty at Camp
Delta, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Like the
other members of his Texas Army National Guard unit, Brown is
looking forward to the end of his shift, especially since in less
than twelve hours, his unit is slated to board a chartered plane
and head back to Texas for their deactivation.
To kill time on an otherwise boring and mundane tower guard
shift, Brown thinks about what he calls his Big Four: Should he
leave the Army when his enlistment term ends in a couple of months?
Should he convert to Islam like so many young African-American men
do? Should he pop the question to his girlfriend, Tywanna?
And most important of all, what is in that package Tywanna said
she sent to him, by DHL so that it would get there in time? Tywanna
is his one and only; he loves her and her daughter, Danielle, more
than anything. He can envision their life and their future
together. And then Brown receives the package, and it changes
everything. There's no turning back, there's no do-over, and his
life will never be the same.
A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of
circumstances
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp,
Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech
Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a
journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist,
she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of
Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish
refugees. German Margarete, born to a middle-class family, married the
son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. But soon swept up in the
fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution, she met her second partner, the
Communist Heinz Neumann. Called to Moscow for his "political
deviations," he fell victim to Stalin's purges while Margarete was
exiled to the hell of the Soviet gulag. Two years later, traded by
Stalin to Hitler, she ended up outside Berlin in Ravensbrück, the only
concentration camp built for women.
Milena and Margarete loved each other at the risk of their lives. But
in the post-war survivors' accounts, lesbians were stigmatized, and
survivors kept silent. This book explores those silences, and finally
celebrates two strong women who never gave up and continue to inspire.
As Margaret wrote: "I was thankful for having been sent to Ravensbrück,
because it was there I met Milena."
"Upon hearing her words, 'the Somme', Gordon looked at her with
wide eyes. He realized that he had just begun to solve a piece of
his personal puzzle. "Anna, can I ask you to translate something
that might be French, or might be nonsense? Just humor me." "What
do you want me to translate?" "OK, if I say to you, Ill reposing
sir le Somme, does it have any meaning?" After listening to his
short phrase she replied, "Hmmm, yes. Your American accent aside, I
think you are saying 'they rest on the Somme', in French." Later,
as the train moved south, Gordon asked, "Anna, if your parents
don't mind, I'd like to make a few more visits. I feel there is
something in those fields back there, something hidden for me to
find." "That's a strange thing to say, Gordon. Something hidden?
Like what?" "I don't know. But something.special.""
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Final Spin
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Jocko Willink
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Number one New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink's
fast-paced and exciting thriller Final Spin is a story of love,
brotherhood, suffering, happiness and sacrifice - a story about
life. Johnny . . . Shouldn't be in a dead-end job. Shouldn't be in
a dead-end bar. Shouldn't be in a dead-end life. But he is. It's a
hamster-wheel existence. Stocking warehouse store shelves by day,
drinking too much whisky and beer by night. In between, Johnny
lives in his childhood home, making sure his alcoholic mother
hasn't drunk herself to death, and looking after his idiosyncratic
older brother Arty, whose world revolves around his laundromat job.
Rinse and repeat. Then Johnny's monotonous life takes a tumble. The
laundromat where Arty works, and the one thing that gives him
happiness, is about to be sold. Johnny doesn't want that to happen,
so he takes measures into his own hands. Johnny, along with his
friend Goat, come up with a plan to get the money to buy the
laundromat. But things don't always go as planned . . .
A young American infantryman finds himself in a Korean troop train
hurrying north to the front early in 1953. Thus begins a story of
humor, pathos, horror, bitterness, and a chilling look at the class
discrimination whether intended or accidental that created a
warrior class of poor, uneducated men to fight a vicious enemy in a
forlorn, inhospitable country.
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Zero Option
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P. T Deutermann
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They call it "Wet Eye": a biological weapon that literally eats out
the eyes of its victims. Now, deep within the belly of the U.S.
military establishment, one small silver canister of Wet Eye is
missing-lost because a career pencil-pusher has cut a
million-dollar deal and signed it in blood.
For David Stafford, a Defense Department investigator, finding the
missing canister means ripping through layers of cover-ups,
bureaucracy, and one man's murderous determination to sell Wet Eye
to an international arms dealer. But the military would rather
silence Stafford than admit to a security breach. And now, the only
person who can stop a biological conflagration is an innocent
child-who has looked into the face of evil, and seen it with her
own two eyes...
A novel of the Vietnam War; The Cave tells the story of a young
Tennessee farm boy who is shot down over Laos while on a classified
mission in 1966 and finds sanctuary in a huge cave. The Cave is a
story of survival and triumph over adversity.
War is a religious experience. Mystic. Demonically insane. It
pushes humans to the ragged edge of self-knowledge. Mixing
philosophy, literature, psychology, and memoir, this book carries
us on an odyssey - an odyssey that explores why young men volunteer
for combat, how they live, and how they survive. It is raw in its
portrayal of cowardice, of bravery, of haunting irreversible
mistakes, of guilt, and of love. Confession to a Deaf God is a
thought-provoking exploration of the incomprehensible cosmic game
of Mars, ancient god of war.
A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest
deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada,
where secrets are concealed When a young Israeli woman suddenly
goes missing, her boyfriend, an American nuclear engineer, suspects
her disappearance is connected to her tantalizing theory about the
haunting fortress of Masada. He decides to travel to Herod's 2000
year old mountain fortress to see if her theory was right. There,
he makes a discovery so astonishing that forces from the dark side
of Israeli intelligence begin to converge on him to deflect his
pursuit of the truth by any means necessary. With the aid of a
beautiful Israeli archaeologist, he struggles to bring to light the
treasures he believes are concealed in the mountain, unaware that
there is a dangerous contemporary secret at stake. P.T.
Deutermann's fifteenth novel, "The Last Man," brings all the
excitement and pulse-thumping action his fans have come to expect.
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