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Author
Series
Crimson empire volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
536 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to Alex Marshall's A Crown for Cold Silver, an outstanding, game-changing epic adventure featuring an unforgettable female warrior. After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their dreams...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the final months of World War II in Europe and General George Patton's contributions to the Allied victory before his mysterious death in a car collision in December 1945, days before he was to return to the United States.
Author
Series
McLanahan volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
345p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...
Author
Publisher
[Blackstone Audio]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs ( 7 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Preposterously vain and yet endearing, Brigadier Gerard makes for a tremendously fun companion as he relives the adventures of his military career fighting in the Napoleonic campaigns. Crediting himself with unparalleled military prowess and irresistible powers of seduction, Gerard goes as far as to suggest that his absence from the Battle of Waterloo was the reason for Napoleon's defeat!
7) Hannibal
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
223 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) The death trust
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea in 1864, the city of Savannah lies directly in its path, threatening the livelihood of widow Sara Lester and her twelve-year-old daughter Hattie, who struggle to save the family plantation.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxi, 404 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A profile of the iconic Civil War general explores the paradoxes attributed to his character to discuss such topics as his achievements as a military strategist, his contributions to the Transcontinental Railroad, and his tempestuous family relationships.
18) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later, as the book ends, Washington...
20) King of scars
Author
Series
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
No one knows what Nikolai Lantsov endured in his country's bloody civil war. Now enemies gather at his weakened borders, and the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.