Saul David
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From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorized history of the SBS. Britain's SBS, or Special Boat Section, was the world's first maritime special operations unit. Founded in the dark days of 1940, it started as a small and inexperienced outfit that leaned heavily on volunteers' raw courage and boyish enthusiasm. It would become one of the most effective fighting forces of the Second World War and has served as a model for Special Forces...
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The "Devil Dogs" of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines-part of the legendary 1st Marine Division-were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World II-and also the last.
They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942-the first US ground offensive of the war-and were present when Okinawa, Japan's, most southerly prefecture finally fell to American troops in June 1945.
Ordinary men...
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English
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"The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid on Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David"--Book jacket.
On June 27, 1976, a group of Arab and German terrorists hijacked Air France flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The plane was diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where the terrorists demanded the release of 53 "freedom fighters" in Israeli, Kenyan, and European jails in return for the...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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Hailed as "a monumental achievement!" (Douglas Brinkley) The Force tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite U.S. and Canadian soldiers--mountain men, lumberjacks, hunters, and explorers--who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible World War II mission.I mission.
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John Reimer, a Mennonite preacher in Lakeview, Chicago, might be on the downslope of his ministerial career. At least that's how he feels most days. Then one morning in March a hungover waitress at the Melrose diner tells him to look into the murder of a bike messenger at North Pond--and begs him to keep the cops out of it. Before too long Reimer is making tracks through Chicago, asking a lot of questions, and leaving many people uncomfortable.
Reimer...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.
9) Logan's run
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English
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The year is 2274, civilization exists in a vast, bubbled metropolis, where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday, when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5 is a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carousel. But, Logan is almost 30 himself and will not go to Carousel himself willingly....
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
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2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
12) Fantastic voyage
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Widescreen. [Special ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...