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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where, historically, empires clashed and sieges from the east toppled kingdoms and enslaved peoples. Many view the region-comprising present-day Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, and Romania, among other countries-as united only by the shared experience of invasions launched by foreign powers, from the Huns of the fourth century, to the Swedes of the seventeenth, to...
Author
Publisher
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Every year, approximately thirty-eight thousand recruits pour through the gates of Marine Corps Recruit Depots at San Diego, California, and Parris Island, South Carolina, for a chance to line up on the historic yellow footprints. And once on it, the reality of the situation sets in and almost without exception, they immediately ask themselves one question: "What the f---- did I get myself into?"In From maggots to Marines, male and female Marines...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have...
4) The secret
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 28
Language
English
Description
"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1.25 trillion to operate. How is it possible that the United States Government gets it so wrong on so many critical issues, and so often? And if our expensive national security machine is not working, what can be done? Enter Thom Shanker, best-selling author and former New York Times editor, along with Andrew Hoehn, RAND SVP of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials--a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence--perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, they've shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right binders--and falling for each other. But just as their relationship has started to blossom, Aaron moves away. Feeling adrift, separated from the one person who understands them, they seek solace in digging deep into the annals of America's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick
One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books
"An invaluable primer to arguably the most important driver of change for our future." —P. W. Singer, author of Burn-In
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today's great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence.
A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization
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Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 19
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea blows up, and a lone woman escapes the contagion that has inexplicably killed everyone else on the boat. A helicopter whose occupants have been stricken by an unknown illness crashes into a bridge in South Africa, killing motorists...
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Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and two grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Presents the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone where FDR, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and many others argued their way through choices that could win or lose World War II, which transformed their alliance from a necessity to a bond.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia--a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone--until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen...
Author
Series
Task Force Epsilon volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An American operative infiltrates a dangerous terrorist cell targeting the Israeli and the Palestinian territories.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic Frontier, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn, after an American F-22 collides with a Russian interloper, is ordered to find a missing stealth bomber before the enemy and prevent a potential nuclear holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead,...
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