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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1984
Language
English
Description
While Napoleon closes in on the British, Major Richard Sharpe gets caught in a different kind of battle--one with his enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, who has taken a group of French and British women hostage at the Gateway of God, a pass in the mountains of western Spain.
25) Behind the lines
Author
Series
Corps volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission into the jungles of the island Mindanao in search of a missing colonel, who is reported to be harassing the Japanese inhabitants.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A historical novel, the first in a planned trilogy, which traces the life of legendary Celtic warrior Boudica, covering the years between A.D. 32 and 43 during which she grows from girl to woman and seals her destiny in battle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, also referred to as Breaca, leads in her pursuit of the Roman invaders in first-century Celtic England while Ban, Breaca's half brother, has thrown his loyalty to the service of Rome against her.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 60, the Ecini tribe restlessly waits for the Celtic queen Boudica to rise up and lead them into victory against Rome, and when she arrives, she fearlessly takes control of the armies and uses her own power to take the country's future into her own hands.
Author
Series
Emperor volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Julius Caesar's attempts to dominate the Mediterranean and Gaius Brutus's rise to power.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides in the Pacific war.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century Southwest, focusing on the destruction of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the 1860s, and looking at the role of trapper, soldier, and scout Kit Carson in the removal and deaths of the Native Americans.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Recounts events during which, immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small group of U.S. SpecialForces soldiers entered Afghanistan on horseback to capture the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and were ambushed in a battle in which they were outnumbered forty to one.
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