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The first year of the Korean War was a tumultuous series of epic battles, ending in a legendary and harrowing retreat. In the summer of 1950, British and Australian troops were dispatched to fight with UN forces in the savage struggle against communism in Korea. After both triumph and tragedy while breaking out of the "Pusan Perimeter," 27th Brigade – the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex battalions, soon joined by the Royal Australians...
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Refusing the digital world of late capitalism
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities...
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In 1942, the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were fighting overseas, fighting on other fronts, and Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From January 1942, a team frantically pulled together secret plans for a "scorched earth" strategy. The goal was to prevent the Japanese from seizing resources for their war machine as they landed, and capturing Australians as slaves as they had done in Malaysia and...
25) Scorched earth
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Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The planet suffered an environmental collapse. The air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died. Generations later humankind has finally re-established a rudimentary society, in which bounty hunters roam the land in search of wanted eco-criminals. Bounty hunter Attica Gage has a chance at the bounty of a lifetime: bringing down the ruthless outlaw, Thomas Jackson.
27) Scorched Earth
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HB Henderson's boys volume 1
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Summer, 1944. The tide of war has turned against the Nazis, but desperation has made them more brutal then ever. Henderson's Boys' final mission will be their most dangerous. With food and weapons in short supply, survival is the biggest challenge of all.
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The American Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. To truly understand the madness and despair of such a horrendous conflict one needs to pick a moment. Or see that war through one family's eyes. In rural Arkansas, such was the Hancocks. Devastated by a cruel war, they faced down their personal hells and in spite of it all survived. Their survival is a testament to the power of love and the American spirit....
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Vietnam Journal volume 3
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English
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Veteran war correspondent Scott 'Journal' Neithammer comes across another journalist in the field who is willing to sacrifice others for the sake of a good story in this episode called "Scorched Earth."
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No man knows the place of her birth, nor where she learned to wield a sword to shame many a male. They know only that she is called The She-Devil of The Hyrkanian Steppes. That, and Red Sonja.
Mark Russell (The Flintstones) and Mirko Colak (Conan) bring a savage tale of metal and blood. A world conqueror possesses a massive army and a fatal prophecy. A bastard sorceress craves revenge. And a fearsome red-haired warrior is made wartime ruler of a...
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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No man knows the place of her birth, nor where she learned to wield a sword to shame many a male. They know only that she is called The She-Devil of The Hyrkanian Steppes. That, and RED SONJA.
MARK RUSSELL (The Flintstones) and MIRKO COLAK (Conan) bring a savage tale of metal and blood. A world conqueror possesses a massive army and a fatal prophecy. A bastard sorceress craves revenge. And a fearsome red-haired warrior is made wartime ruler of...
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Damage volume 7
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English
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Laid up in a hospital recuperating until he can become Damage again, Ethan Avery gets help from a surprising source: the Unknown Soldier, master of covert warfare! The Soldier helps Ethan evade Colonel Jonas and her military ops team until his powers recharge, but time's running out-not just for Ethan, but for the other patients as well.
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Dynamite
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"I made a vow, Tonto. What becomes of me if I don't keep it?" -- The Lone Ranger
"You ask the wrong question. What becomes of you if you do?" -- Tonto
Dynamite Entertainment continues its acclaimed run of The Lone Ranger from writer Brett Matthews, artist Sergio Cariello and colorist Marcelo Pinto from The Lone Ranger #12-#16!
Collected here for the first time, Volume Three features "Scorched Earth" (issues 12-15) which finds The Ranger and Tonto...
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Lone Ranger volume 12
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English
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"I made a vow, Tonto. What becomes of me if I don't keep it?" -- The Lone Ranger
"You ask the wrong question. What becomes of you if you do?" -- Tonto
Dynamite Entertainment continues its acclaimed run of The Lone Ranger from writer Brett Matthews, artist Sergio Cariello and colorist Marcelo Pinto. Collected here for the first time, Volume Three features "Scorched Earth" which finds The Ranger and Tonto drawing closer to Cavendish, while the world...
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Lone Ranger volume 12
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English
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Collected here for the first time, The Ranger and Tonto drawing closer to Cavendish, while the world around them explodes in fire and murder, and "Ostinato" which provides a look inside the mind of the West's most brutal and complex villain - Butch Cavendish.
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Fire Power by Kirkman and Samnee volume 13
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English
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The bestselling series created by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible, Oblivion Song) and Chris Samnee (Daredevil, Black Widow) continues!
The one who wields the fire power is destined to save the world, but Owen Johnson has turned his back on that life. He doesn't want the power-he never did. He only wants to raise his family and live his life, but unseen forces are at work to make that impossible. Danger lurks around every corner...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 15
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English
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"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution. When the normal levers...
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Fire power (Graphic novels) volume 4
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Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Theone who wields the fire power is destined to save the world, but Owen Johnson has turned his back on that life. He doesn't want the power, he never did. He only wants to raise his family and live his life, but unseen forces are at work to make that impossible. Danger lurks around every corner as Owen's past comes back to haunt him."--Page [4] of cover.
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution. When the normal levers...
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This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan. The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern history. It was made up of some of America's best minds and some of its worst, of some genuine idealists and some who simply "never had it so good," of women hungry for men, men hungry for power, and a fortunate leavening of ordinary, decent people. It was an astonishing...