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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A timely, topical book grounding Russia's recent turn towards conservativism in pre-1917 culture and explaining what this shift could mean for the rest of the world"--
"There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vatican scholar paints a new, dramatic portrait of what Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial popes in Church history, did and did not do during WWII as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews.
286) Black ops: # 5
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Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages concerning covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies around the world who have suddenly gone missing and then, inexplicably, found dying. Or dead. Castillo finds the information both infuriating and fascinating, particularly after a recent experience with two CIA traitors whose own deaths were swift and suspicious....
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Series
Hetalia Axis Powers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
An allegory of world history that has human characters that personify different countries of the world. The story is centered around the Axis Powers of World War I and II--Germany, Italy, and Japan--as they meet, become friends, and form a powerful alliance.
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Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel, his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain P.K. "Pick" McCoy, USMC. Charley may be too old to kick...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s. Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network--a dozen men and two women--sent to infiltrate those organizations....