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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Blood of Dracula's castle: Photographer Glen moves into a castle inherited from his late uncle only to find it occupied by an aged butler (John Carradine) and Count and Countess Townsend, none of whom are ready to move out.
Blood mania: A nightmare of unspeakable terror, this Gothic-like horror tale is about a young doctor who's haunted by a questionable past and entrapped in a hopeless present by jealousy, blackmail and finally, murder.
Brain twisters:...
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America's engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds...
1464) The Manchurian candidate
Series
Criterion collection volume 803
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Gripping war stories meet inspiring lessons in this straight-shooting and darkly funny account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields and in daily lives, from distinguished United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer"--
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Visits America's overseas military cemeteries, and weaves elements of a historical documentary with beautiful, contemporary scenes of the cemeteries, and powerful stories about the men and women who are buried in them. Includes on-location interviews with formal and informal historians and witnesses of the wars. Discusses the creation of the cemeteries.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1932, in the darkest days of the Depression, unemployed World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., looking for an advance on the bonus compensation promised to them years earlier. After camping throughout Washington for two months, the veterans were driven out by force. The U.S. Army, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and his officers Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, drove the veterans from Washington and burned their camps...
1469) Hollow point
Pub. Date
©2004, ℗1996.
Language
English
Description
An international crime syndicate is on the move in America. Led by the devilishly clever Livingston (Lithgow), who plans one last payday before they move their operation overseas. Two U.S. agents stand in their way: FBI agent Norwood (Carrere) and her rival, DEA agent Max Parish (Griffith). Their competition to bring down Livingston grows so fierce that they cripple each other's investigation. When Livingston's top assassin (Sutherland) murders Norwood's...
1470) Soldier's home
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
An American soldier returning from World War I is unable to re-adjust to civilian life.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thrill of a romance: A war hero takes swimming lessons in order to woo the instructor. Fiesta: A woman disguises herself as a matador to fill in for her brother. This time for keeps: A veteran falls in love with a swimmer. Pagan love song: A love story set on Tahiti. Million dollar mermaid: Dramatizes the life of Annette Kellerman. Easy to love: A water skier falls in love with her agent.
1472) A foreign field
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day.
Author
Series
Bradshaw brothers volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
It's ex-Navy SEAL Porter Bradshaw's toughest challenge ever--six grieving nieces and nephews. With his brother, Matthias, killed in a car crash, and his sister-in-law, Sunday, hospitalized, Porter must take his turn looking after their children and the ancestral farm in Benevolence, Washington. For teacher Clementine Warren, Benevolence was where her hopes for a real home and family crashed and burned. But as Sunday's friend and former neighbor, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir of promises kept, overcoming obstacles, and what it means to sacrifice for others, written by a Special Warfare Operator with the Air Force. When Israel "DT" Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside IED in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad required:...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overranCentral Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of infidel Mongol rule in Western Asia, drawing from an impressive...
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel's book...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"By the time she arrived in Belvidere, Illinois, and started working as a farmhand, Jennie had a new name and a new identity . . . Albert D. J. Cashier. In 1861, the winds of war blew through the United States. Jennie Hodgers, a young immigrant from Ireland, moved west to Illinois and soon had a new name and a new identity--Albert D. J. Cashier. Like many other young men, Albert joined the Union Army. Though the smallest soldier in his company, Albert...
1479) The emerald affair
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her best friend Lydia's home. Esmie is at first concerned for Tom's shell shock, then captivated by his charm, but it's effervescent Lydia he marries, and the pair begin a new adventure together in India. When marriage to Tom's doctor friend Harold offers Esmie the chance to work in India, the two sets of newlyweds find themselves living wildly...
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