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Pike Logan thrillers volume 10
Language
English
Description
"World War is on the horizon in New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's tenth heart-pounding Pike Logan thriller. The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria to the Baltic States, the Taskforce is placed...
Publisher
Palisades Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Korean
Description
During the Vietnam War, a South Korean army base begins receiving mysterious radio transmissions from a patrol that went missing six months earlier. A shell-shocked, hard-boiled lieutenant and a ragtag military unit are sent to the desolate stretch of land known as R-Point to gather clues as to the whereabouts of the missing soldiers. What appeared to be a clear search and rescue mission turns into something far more terrifying than any battle.
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Korean
Description
On 7 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon that has been presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad of eight other soldiers to extract the missing soldiers from the Romeo point or R-Point. When they arrive at the location, they engage and defeat a Vietnamese woman with a machine gun. They later find a tombstone saying...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It's another haunted adventure in the Ghosts of War series!
After three ghosts, it looks like things might be going back to normal for Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie. It's been a while since any ghosts have shown up, and the most annoying things lately are the loud barking dogs at the Dogs and Suds pet-grooming shop next door to the Kitchen Sink. They've been barking nonstop for days, and it's making band practice impossible. But maybe the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
History comes alive -- with ghosts!
In the basement of his family's junk shop, Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie discover a trunk full of old military stuff, including a battered navy peacoat from World War II with a mysterious letter in the pocket. Curious, Anderson takes both home. Only that's not all he brings home . . .Later that night, the owner of the coat and letter appears in Anderson's room - the ghost of a World War II sailor.But...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Anderson and his friends are back with another exciting mystery in the Ghosts of War series!
Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie have been doing everything they can to avoid the battered trunk full of old military things in his family's junk shop basement. Only, staying away seems impossible, and this time Anderson discovers a dusty World War II medic's bag inside the trunk. But who does it belong to? Because if the friends have learned anything,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
History comes alive -- with ghosts!
Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement of his family's junk shop again. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson discovers an old grenade with a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous . . . especially when the ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his lucky grenade from during...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This YA military memoir recounts a nineteen-year-old Army engineer's tour of duty in Iraq: "profoundly moving . . . poignant, and often harrowing" (Kirkus, starred review).
Ryan Smithson was an ordinary teenager until he witnessed the devastation of September 11th, 2001. Watching the Twin Towers fall motivated him to enlist in the Army Reserve at the age of seventeen. In Ghosts of War, Ryan vividly chronicles his experience...
Ryan Smithson was an ordinary teenager until he witnessed the devastation of September 11th, 2001. Watching the Twin Towers fall motivated him to enlist in the Army Reserve at the age of seventeen. In Ghosts of War, Ryan vividly chronicles his experience...
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English
Description
Written by teacher, military veteran, anthropologist and philosopher C. Mark Riden M.A. M.Ed., the Ghosts of War elevates the lives of diverse civilian heroes and military combatants who witnessed or had fought in America's Wars that most historians never mention in print. Ghosts of War takes the reader on a journey into the past with a murder mystery in mind complete with a host of collaborators trying to answer the question: Who killed Captain Wesley...
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English
Description
How do states and societies try to confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what is the meaning of truth, guilt, and justice in that process? In Ghosts of War, Franziska Exeler examines people's wartime choices and their aftermath in Belarus, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
After the Red Army reestablished control over Belarus, one question shaped encounters between the returning Soviet...
12) Ghosts of war
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
During the bleakest days of WW Two, five battled-hardened soldiers are given a cake assignment; to hold down a Chateau in the French countryside formerly used by the Nazi high command. What begins as an unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter an enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
Author
Series
Ghosts of war volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the basement of his family's junkshop, Anderson and his friends Greg and Julie discover a trunk full of old military stuff. Including a battered navy peacoat from World War II, and when Anderson puts it on he finds a mysterious letter in the pocket. Curious, he takes the coat and letter home. But that's not all he brings home . . . Later that evening the ghost of a World War II sailor appears in Anderson's room. Anderson is completely freaked...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The ghost of Willie, President Abraham Lincoln's older son, transports Lindsey back to his own time, where she sees and hears many things from both sides of the Civil War. Includes passages from contemporary documents, a glossary, biographical sketches, and a bibliography.
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English
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The founder of Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours sheds light on the supernatural stories of the Constitution State.
Bloody battlefields and raucous taverns in Connecticut served as the backdrop for pivotal figures and bold actions vital to the American Revolution. Nathan Hale is said to still conduct lessons in New London and East Haddam, and many suspect that George Washington occasionally visits the Shaw Mansion and Fairfield's Sun Tavern. The...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The author of the Civil War Explorer series unearths the ghostly legends and lore that haunt Georgia's capital city since the War Between the States. The Atlanta metropolis is one of America's most modern and progressive cities, and it is easy to forget that 150 years ago it was the scene of a long and deadly campaign. Union general William T. Sherman hammered relentlessly against Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church and Jonesboro....
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English
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The Maryland town devastated by the bloodiest day of the Civil War-the Battle of Antietam-is now home to its ghostly victims. In September 1862, fighting from the Battle of Antietam spilled into Sharpsburg's streets. Residents were left to bury the dead from both sides. Today, locals report lingering echoes of that strife, from the faint taps of a Union drummer boy named Charley King to the phantom footsteps of Confederate soldiers charging up the...
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Series
Language
English
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The author of Haunted North Georgia stalks the Civil War ghosts that populate the top of The Peach State. Though Georgia was spared the hard hand of war for two years, combat arrived with a vengeance in September 1863 with the Battle of Chickamauga in north Georgia. It was the second-largest battle of the Civil War and has become one of America's most haunted battlefields, producing a long history of bizarre paranormal events that continue today....
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English
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For southwest Missouri, the Civil War was an unparalleled period of violence, sorrow and anger. As the torches burned the physical landscape, the depredations inflicted were also scorched upon the psyche of the people who lived through fires. Survey Carthage's battlefield for stubborn holdouts or hold vigil at the Kendrick House for innocent bystanders who were swept up into the stratagems of bushwhackers and guerrillas. Meet the Bloody Spikes, Rotten...