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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series covers an actual situation pitting the Special Forces of the U.S. Army against the "aggressor" in the rugged countryside of West Virginia. Although it's a training problem, the script is written as it is enacted and the residents of Preston County are invited to join whichever side they choose. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is exciting, timely,...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world--when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies--Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy,...
3) Steelheart
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
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Hace diez años, la Calamidad vino. Esto era una explosión en el cielo que dio poderes extraordinarios a la gente ordinaria. El público intimidado comenzó a llamarles Epopeyas. Las epopeyas no son ningunos amigos de hombre. Una Epopeya asombrosamente poderosa llamó Steelheart se ha instalado como el emperador. Cuando Steelheart vino a Chicago, él mató al padre de David. David ha estado estudiando, y la planificación, y él tiene algo que ellos...
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Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Muslim extremists are found with a mysterious UAV in the Malaysian part of Borneo, Colonel Danny Freah and his Whiplash team are sent to investigate. They discover that Dreamland's drone technology has been stolen. Who has betrayed them? China is rumored to be involved, as is Russia. But finding out who's really bankrolling the guerrillas means finding someone who knows combat UAVs inside and out. Someone with nothing to lose. Someone like Air...
6) Calamity
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
David prepares for a confrontation against the High Epic to help his friend, Prof, achieve redemption and embrace his destiny.
When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has struggled to control his Epic powers,...
7) Calamity
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Los Épicos nacieron cuadno Calamity iluminó los cielos. Desde esa noche histórica, el destino de David ha estado entrelazado con el de esos malvados. Steelheart asesinó a su padre. Fireflight le robó el corazón. Y ahora Regalina ha convertido a su mayor aliado en un peligroso enemigo. David conocía el secreto del Profesor. Secreto que guardó incluso cuando el Profesor se esforzaba por controlar los efectos de sus poderes épicos. Pero no pudo...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically...
9) Steelheart
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the Epics nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them....
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