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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations...
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations...
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"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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Eight years after immigrating to the United States, German born Lukas Ley embodies the American dream: successful athlete, gorgeous girlfriend, loving family. But beneath the surface, eighteen year old Lukas is driven by ambition, resolved to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of the Nazi regime. Unfortunately, a failed physical throws his plans for flight school off course. Unlike his war-hero older brother, Lukass purpose is unclear. He...
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Heirs of Falcon Point volume 1
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice--but too late. His family is ripped apart, never to be reunited. But decades later, fate brings together the descendants of this broken dynasty in the place where it all began--Falcon Point. Anna, Cole, and Tess have never...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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OSS officer Bastien Ley assumes a dead Nazi officer's identity to infiltrate the Nazi ranks in Rome, but when Bastien's assignment becomes extremely stressful, his superiors send him a reinforcement in the form of the lovely Gracie Begni, an intelligent, eager, and completely inexperienced radio operator.
7) Scarecrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet. It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out-an enigmatic Marine...
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Soho Press
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Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
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Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory.
In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000
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Journalist Lucinda Franks recounts her quest to uncover her father's secret past, describing the shock she felt after learning her father was a secret agent during World War II, and the impact that discovery had on her relationship with her father and her memories from childhood.
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2018
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Traces America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the years since 9/11, and how the U.S. efforts in the Afghan War faltered because of a failure to understand the intentions of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
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First team series volume 1
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The author of the classic techno-thrillers Red Phoenix and Day of Wrath, Larry Bond has won praise for the gritty authenticity of his military-political adventures as well as for his matchless talent at generating edge-of-your-seat suspense. Now Bond debutes an exciting new series that rockets straight from the cutting edge of America's war on terror ...
Officially designated the Joint Services Special Demands Project, "The Team" is a unique unit...
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Crown Publishers
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c1995
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1st ed.
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xiv, 608 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Reveals how breaking the code of the Japanese diplomatic Purple ciphers led to the defeat of Germany. Also explains the difficult choices the Americans faced in World War II.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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2014.
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English
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OSS worker Genevieve Olivier, devastated by the news of Peter Eddy's disappearance during a suicide mission in Nazi-occupied Bosnia, searches for information that would help find the man she loves. But her work as a courier soon escalates into a counterintelligence duel with a Fascist assassin -- and Genevieve is his newest target.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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June, 1944. After narrowly escaping her Nazi captors, French Resistance worker Genevieve Olivier is called upon to resume a life of danger as a French spy. Meanwhile American Lieutenant Peter Eddy -- who helped Genevieve escape the Nazis -- is miles away, deep in the Carpathian Mountains with an elite special-ops team that harbors a Nazi traitor.
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Da Capo Press
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c2008
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xvii, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Provides an account of the mission mounted by a small team of American spies in league with local partisans in Italy to sabotage Brenner Pass in the Alps, closing off a vital Nazi supply route during World War II.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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May, 1915. As a dangerous ring of spies and saboteurs threatens to turn the war against the Allies, Frenchman and British operative Julian Olivier discovers goodness in his enemies' hearts. But even if he survives, will he ever be reunited with the woman whose memory he can't erase? Will Canadian airborn hero Warren Flynn survive the war, and will the Allies' newest operative, Evette, unearth the infiltrator in her own Parisian territory before it's...
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"From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history. From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous other best-selling illustrated reference books, this is the shocking story behind the covert activity that shaped the outcome of one of the world's greatest conflicts--and...
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