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- 2034 : a novel of the next world war / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.; Stavridis, James,author.;
"From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 -- and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically out maneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and literary, human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid"--- Subjects: War fiction.; Naval battles; Cyberspace operations (Military science);
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- Standing alone / by Leather, Stephen,author.;
A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, and SAS trooper Matt 'Lastman' Standing is tasked with the job. A lethal killing machine with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Standing is now hunting French in the lawless Wild West forests of Humboldt County, where the US produces most of its legal - and illegal - cannabis. But French isn't the only predator in the wilderness - there are Mexican cartels, Russian Mafia and Hungarian gangsters - and Standing has to overcome them all to get to his target.- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Assassins; Gangs; Mafia; Special forces (Military science);
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- Look around a medieval castle / by Hibbert, Clare,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.Crusaders' castle -- Outer defences -- Moat and aqueduct -- Stables and exercise yard -- Barracks -- Warehouses -- Armory -- Master's rooms -- Kitchens and latrines -- Great hall -- Hospital -- Chapel -- Dungeon.Tour the Crusader castle, Krak des Chevaliers, to discover who built it, how it withstood fearsome sieges, and how its inhabitants lived, worked, ate and slept.- Subjects: Castles; Military history, Medieval; Middle Ages;
- © 2008., Arcturus,
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- Normandy '44 : D-Day and the epic 77-day battle for France : a new history / by Holland, James,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945;
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- Fireborne / by Munda, Rosaria.;
Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power.LSC- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Dragons; Orphans; Government, Resistance to; Military education;
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- The quantum solution / by Lustbader, Eric,author.;
"Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world's leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global wars of power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the world has seen before -- the present and future war of weaponized quantum technology. When an elite Russian scientist and the American Secretary of Defense die, at the same time half a world apart, of inexplicable sudden catastrophic brain damage, the world's intelligence services realize that the quantum war has truly begun. Ryder and her long-time partner, Ben Butler, will risk their lives to discover who the true combatants are, racing against the doomsday scenario of all-out war between America and Russia"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Intelligence officers; Military weapons; Quantum theory; Spies;
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- Sharpe's Storm. by Cornwell, Bernard.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: SHARPE'S COMMAND, ISBN 9780008496777. 'Sharpe's Storm' is the gripping 24th installment in Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Thrillers / Historical; FICTION / War & Military;
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- The Siege A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World [electronic resource] : by Macintyre, Ben.aut; cloudLibrary;
A brilliant, seat-of-your-pants hostage-taking and daring SAS rescue mission of the Iran Embassy in London in 1980, this is Ben Macintyre at the very height of his story-telling powers. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Prince’s Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There, they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens. A tense six-day siege ensued—all on television, over a Bank Holiday weekend—in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff, while the SAS laid plans for a daring rescue mission: Operation Nimrod. This mission marked a fundamental turning point in global history, when Middle Eastern terrorism arrived in the West. Britain had experienced IRA terrorism before, but never an international terrorist incident on this scale. It was a precursor to the brutal Iran-Iraq War that would follow, in which millions perished. Yet there exists to this day no full account of the week-long siege and gripping rescue. Drawing on interviews with police, hostages, terrorists and key SAS figures, and cutting through the sensationalism and misinformation, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre (author of Sunday Times #1s Colditz, The Spy and the Traitor and SAS: Rogue Heroes) goes deep into the archives with exclusive access to tell the story of what really happened and give the first definitive account of a moment that forever changed the way the nation thought about the SAS—and itself.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Military; 20th Century; Intelligence & Espionage;
- © 2024., McClelland & Stewart,
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- Friendly fire : the untold story of the U.S. bombing that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan / by Friscolanti, Michael,1976-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.; Afghan War, 2001-; Friendly fire (Military science);
- © 2005., J. Wiley & Sons Canada,
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- 2054 : a novel / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.; Stavridis, James,author.;
This second entry in the 'Admiral James Stavridis' series is an explosive work of speculative fiction set 20 years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country -- and the world.- Subjects: War fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Cyberspace operations (Military science); Civil war;
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