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"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself...
2) Soldiers
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1988
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Relates some of the battles between the United States Army and North American Indians in the West during the nineteenth century.
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The author carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War to a time when the war's most familiar names are fighting for another cause. Thirteen years before the outbreak of the Civil War, many of the leaders on the opposite sides of that war, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Longstreet, Jackson, and Hancock travelled to Mexico to battle the wily and enigmatic Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana.
4) The soldiers
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Pictorial survey of the U.S. Army soldier's daily life in the early West, his Indian wars, Custer's last stand, etc.
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2010
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Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
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2015.
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"Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisiana dodging insults, makeup advice, guard dogs, bullets and Deputy Carter LeBlanc, both professionally and personally. But just when she thinks things are going to settle down in the small bayou town, someone sets her friend Ally's house on fire." -- Back cover.
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 3
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While Sarah MacNeal struggles with the death of Philip Baxter, her stepbrother, Jacob Spencer, escorts her and her friend Amanda Taylor back across the mountains to Williamsburg to visit Jacob's grandparents. There Jacob becomes embroiled in a struggle that forces him to decide his loyalty between the British and the patriots, and between the two women who have touched his heart.
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A tale set in World War II Hawaii follows the experiences of a woman struggling to repair her life in the aftermath of her husband's mysterious disappearance, a situation that is complicated by malicious local gossip, her husband's secret activities and growing suspicions that her daughter knows more than she admits.
11) Mission to Paris
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Night soldiers volume 12
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Autumn 1939. In Paris, American motion picture actor Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish Republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed.
Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political...
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Night soldiers volume 13
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"Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so does a leader of the French Resistance, known as Mathieu. In Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined...
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Night soldiers volume 3
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In September 1939, as German forces ravage Poland, Captain Alexander de Milja, a Polish intelligence officer with the resistance underground, risks his life in the treacherous world of global espionage to help his country.
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Night soldiers volume 1
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Young Bulgarian fisherman Khristo Stoianev, having watched his brother be kicked to death by Fascist troops in 1934, is recruited as a spy by the Soviets and becomes part of a brotherhood that sustains him through danger in Spain, Paris, Prague, and throughout Europe in the years before World War II.
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