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- One killer force : a Delta force novel / by Fury, Dalton.;
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- Subjects: Adventure stories.; War stories.; United States. Army. Delta Force; Soldiers; Terrorism; Undercover operations;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- When the Irish invaded Canada : the incredible true story of the Civil War veterans who fought for Ireland's freedom / by Klein, Christopher,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The outlandish, untold story of the Irish-American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they were bound by a common goal: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. By the time that these invasions--known together as the Fenian Raids--began in 1866, Ireland had been Britain's unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Thousands of Civil War veterans considered themselves Irishmen before they were Americans. They were those who fled rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger, and now they took their cue from a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries. With the tacit support of the U.S. government, the Fenian Brotherhood established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Defiantly, this motley group, including a one-armed war hero, an English spy infiltrating rebel forces, and a radical who staged his own funeral, managed to seize a piece of Canada--if only for three days. When the Irish Invaded Canada is the untold tale of a band of fiercely patriotic Irish-Americans and their chapter in Ireland's centuries-long fight for independence. Inspiring, lively, and often undeniably comic, this is a story of fighting for what's right in the face of impossible odds"--- Subjects: Fenians.;
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- After the war is over : a novel / by Robson, Jennifer,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War stories.; World War, 1914-1918;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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- Hanged in Medicine Hat : murders in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and the disturbing true story of Canada's last mass execution / by Greenfield, Nathan M.,1958-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."For three years during the Second World War, 12,000 Nazis were held in a prisoner-of-war camp at the edge of Medicine Hat, an isolated city of 12,000 people on the bald Canadian prairie. The camp and the townsfolk lived cheerfully side-by-side until two men were beaten and hanged by their fellow prisoners and no one on the scene would admit to knowing anything about the crimes. RCMP investigators infiltrated the camp and discovered the existence of a shadow Nazi government, complete with its own Gestapo responsible for enforcing discipline and loyalty to the Fuhrer. Suspects were identified. Charges were laid. A series of gripping trials resulted in the last mass hanging in Canadian history. Now, eighty years after the fact, acclaimed historian Nathan Greenfield presents stunning new evidence that raises grave questions about whether justice was served on either side of the wire in Medicine Hat."--- Subjects: Hanging; Nazis; Serial murders; Trials (Murder); World War, 1939-1945;
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- Meme wars : the untold story of the online battles upending democracy in America / by Donovan, Joan,author.; Dreyfuss, Emily,author.; Friedberg, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Meme Wars is the first major account of how "Stop the Steal" went from online to real life, from the wires to the weeds. Leading media expert Joan Donovan, PhD, veteran tech journalist Emily Dreyfuss, and cultural ethnographer Brian Friedberg pull back the curtain on the digital war rooms in which a vast collection of antiestablishmentarians bond over hatred of liberal government and media. Together as a motley reactionary army, they use memes and social media to seek out new recruits, spread ideologies,and remake America according to their desires. A political thriller with the substance of a rigorous history, Meme Wars is the astonishing story of how extremists are yanking our culture and politics to the right"--- Subjects: Memes; Online social networks; Right-wing extremists; Social media;
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- The women with silver wings : the inspiring true story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II / by Landdeck, Katherine Sharp,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War II-only to be forgotten by the country they served When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville's debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army's rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. The brainchild of trailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country-and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran's social experiment seemed to be a resounding success-until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women's wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they'd forged never failed, and over the next few decades they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were-and for their place in history"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945; Air pilots, Military; Women air pilots;
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- Pacific glory / by Deutermann, Peter T.,1941-;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War stories.; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945;
- © c2011., St. Martin's Press,
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- Cotton's war / by Dunlap, Phil.;
LSC- Subjects: Western stories.; Sheriffs; Brigands and robbers; Kidnapping; Gunfights;
- © c2011., Penguin Group,
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- Little Women [videorecording]. by Danes, Claire; Sarandon, Susan; Ryder, Winona;
Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder.Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.CHVRS rating: G.DVD.- Subjects: Drama.; Children's films.; Holidays.; Drama.;
- © 0000., Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment,
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- Catch-22 / by Heller, Joseph.;
LSC- Subjects: War stories.; Black humor (Literature); Classics; Literary; Bombardiers; World War, 1939-1945;
- © 2011, c1989., Simon & Schuster,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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