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A small-town boy from Nebraska, Ethan Vanderbilt leaves the
windswept plains behind and joins the U.S. Navy in 1932. He quickly
moves up the ranks, becoming a chief petty officer in 1940. With a
stable career and a hefty salary, Ethan figures it's time to find a
nice girl and settle down. While on shore leave in Honolulu, Ethan
spots his dream gal, Mystic "Missy" Bay. She's on vacation from
Duluth, Minnesota, and the two hit it off immediately. It's not
long before Ethan's hopping a ship back to the States to travel to
Minnesota to propose to the love of his life; they marry and move
to Hawaii. For Ethan, everything is going according to plan. Then
the unthinkable happens. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941. With the world aflame, Missy returns to Duluth while Ethan
heads for the Pacific. Her letters keep him going, and as he reads
about how she's raising their two children while working in a
defense job, Ethan realizes he has a lot to look forward to when
the war's over... if he survives. A moving historical novel, The
Beautiful Mistake, portrays the heroic deeds of the Greatest
Generation and the power of true love.
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Forgotten Soldiers (Paperback)
Martin Warren; Edited by Ken Farmer, Joyce M. Gilmour
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R441
R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
Save R65 (15%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Cold War saga about Air Force Captain Jacob Walden shot down over
Vietnam in 1970 and the untold story of why he never returned home.
Forty years later Journalist Ted Pratt investigates what may be the
sudden reappearance of Jacob Walden and follows the trail to find
Jacob. Ted encounters Charlie Smith, a secretive and seasoned
Operative who may have answers to the question about "What Happened
to Jacob Walden," and why Jake never returned home.
The Dragonslayers face dangerous drug cartels, terrorists, human
traffickers, and their own inner darkness. Their lives are a
constant battle between good and evil. Sometimes evil triumphs.
Major Cabbott Westmoreland and his B Team are sent to Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico, to rescue four American service personnel captured
and held for ransom by a splinter faction of a cartel. Young
Lieutenant Erik Sutton gets his first taste of how horrible men can
be, and learns there's a fine line between controlling the evil
beast, and letting it out. The team discovers one army specialist
brutally murdered before they can intervene. Can the others be
rescued? Back across the Mexican border, another drug cartel has
kidnapped a dozen American tourists. Retired Air Force Major Fred
Dutch Amsterdom receives a distress call from his friend taken
hostage. The U.S. Government not only wants their hostages freed,
but they want cartel leader, Hector Moreno, dead. Army Major
General Lindsey Doyle is halfway around the world in Bali. Her
plans for a restful vacation in are interrupted. She has to fight
for her life as she faces the dangers of white slavery and an
Islamic terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah, which is plotting more
attacks on innocent civilians. In order to complete their missions,
the Dragonslayers must cross the threshold into the darkest depths
of humanity and rely on each other for strength. They face the most
vicious kinds of evil, all while fighting to keep their own demons
under control.
Al-Qaeda has a brand new weapon in their war of terror: a deadly
unconventional explosive. The US government can't figure out what
it is or where al-Qaeda is getting it until two men try to solve
the mystery. Newly recruited Dragonslayer Captain Cabbott
Westmoreland is the number one sniper in the world. Years of
hunting have sharpened his senses to amazing proportions. He must
use his skills to unravel a major plot by al-Qaeda. Can he do it?
Or will some personal blunders cost the lives of thousands across
the globe? Time is of the essence if they are going to stop the
attacks. Lieutenant Jake Collins finds the other piece of the
puzzle. His jaded past helps uncover the source of the explosives.
Now it's time to take the fight back to the terrorists. Their
commander, Lieutenant Colonel Eagle Tryggvesson will have to
coordinate with other Special Forces units and government agencies
to strike a blow to the heart of al-Qaeda. The thrilling sequel to
PROJECT: DRAGONSLAYERS, it continues the saga of the unlikely
Special Forces team thrown head first into the world of
counter-terrorism. Battling forces seen and unseen, they use
technological advances to gain the upper hand against their foes.
Blood is thicker than water... and when it's the blood of a
Dragonslayer, there will be hell to pay. The Dragonslayers return
with a vengeance to fight terrorism with in another installment of
the exciting Dragonslayers Saga. The unorthodox team comes under
fire from the most unlikely source, so they must stick together, or
be destroyed. They find out that state-of-the-art body armor isn't
the only thing that will save them when bullets are flying. Not all
of their battles happen on the battlefield. For many, there's a
battle raging within, as they grapple with their own demons and a
society that doesn't accept them. In Australia, Captain Tige St.
Ivor is faced with his own dilemma: an assignment that involves
killing one of his best friends. Captain Cabbott Westmoreland
fights to be accepted by his own family. And terrorism hits too
close to home for Major D.M. Elliott, as he must find a way to
protect his father from extremists. Through it all, they live by
the code of honor, valor, and sacrifice. Be sure to read: Project:
Dragonslayers, the book that started it all, which was nominated
for the Military Writer's Society of America Fiction-Thriller Award
for 2011.
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