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- Soldier / by Adams, Simon,1955-;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 69) and index.An introduction to life as a soldier, including their training, tactics, vehicles, and weapons.LSC
- Subjects: Soldiers; Soldiers; Military art and science;
- © 2009., DK Pub.,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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- Children of radium : a buried inheritance / by Dunthorne, Joe,author.;
Includes bibliographic key to online citations and index."In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. When novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their heroic escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Instead, what he found in his great-grandfather's voluminous, unpublished, partially translated memoir was a much darker, more complicated story. "I confess to my descendants who will read these lines that I made a grave error. I betrayed myself, my most sacred principles," he wrote. "I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience." Siegfried Merzbacher was a German-Jewish chemist living in Oranienburg, a small town north of Berlin, where he developed various household items, including a radioactive toothpaste called Doramad. But then he was asked by the government to work on products with a strong military connection -- first he made and tested gas-mask filters, and then he was invited to establish a chemical weapons laboratory. Between 1933 and 1935, he was a Jewish chemist making chemical weapons for the Nazis. While he and his nuclear family escaped safely to Turkey before the war, Siegfried never got over his complicity, particularly after learning that members of his extended family were murdered in Auschwitz. Armed only with his great-grandfather's rambling, 2,000-page deathbed memoir and a handful of archival clues, Dunthorne traveled to Munich, Ammendorf, Berlin, Ankara, and Oranienburg -- a place where hundreds of unexploded bombs remain hidden in the irradiated soil -- to reckon with the remarkable, unsettling legacy of his family's past"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Family histories.; Personal narratives.; Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971; Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971.; Chemical weapons; Chemists; Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous; Jews;
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- Resident evil. [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;
Game.The action centers around rookie cop Leon Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield as they fight to survive a mysterious viral outbreak within Raccoon City. The 1998 original was hailed as a gaming masterpiece and propelled Resident Evil into mainstream pop culture and the entertainment you know today. Driven by insatiable hunger, these creatures act on instinct, gnashing their teeth, ripping at flesh, and devouring their victims. The new immersive camera lets you feel their fangs as they sink into your flesh.ESRB Content Rating: M, Mature, 17+ (Blood and gore, intense violence, strong language).Ultra HD Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 5 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p/4K/8K ; in game surround sound ; 24 GB storage required ; Vibration function & trigger effect supported.
- Subjects: Survival horror video games.; Action adventure video games.; Video games.; Sony video games.; Playstation 5 (Video game console); Video games.; Biological weapons; Zombies; Police; Viruses; Survival; Virus-vector relationships; Resident evil 2 (Game); Computer adventure games;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Atomic spy : the dark lives of Klaus Fuchs / by Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988.; Spies; Spies; Spies; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet; Physicists; Nuclear weapons;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.; Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.; Cold War.; Espionage, Soviet; Nuclear weapons; Spies; Spies; Spies; Women spies;
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- Samurai / by Murrell, Deborah Jane,1963-;
Describes the tactics, weapons, and courageous battles fought by the Japanese warriors known as samurai.
- Subjects: Samurai; Military art and science;
- © 2009., QEB,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A good day to die hard [videorecording] / by Bukvic, Rasha,1979-; Courtney, Jai.; Hauser, Cole,1975-; Koch, Sebastian,1962-; Moore, John,1970-; Snigir, Yuliya.; Willis, Bruce,1955-; Winstead, Mary Elizabeth.; Woods, Skip.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Music by Marco Beltrami ; director of photography, Jonathan Sela ; edited by Dan Zimmerman.Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Cole Hauser, Yuliya Snigir, Rasha Bukvic.Bruce Willis is back in action as John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time. John's latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1, NTSC.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Criminal behavior; Fathers and sons; Feature films.; Nuclear weapons; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2013., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Star wars : the complete visual dictionary / by Luceno, James,1947-; Reynolds, David West.; Windham, Ryder.; Fry, Jason,1969-; Hidalgo, Pablo.;
A guidebook to the characters, cultures, clothing, weapons, and more used in the entire Star Wars saga.LSC
- Subjects: Star Wars films; Star Wars films;
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- In the company of killers / by Christy, Bryan,author.;
"In this intricate and propulsive thriller--from National Geographic's founder of Special Investigations--Tom Klay an investigative reporter leading a double life as a CIA spy, discovers that he has been weaponized in a global game of espionage pitting him against one of the world's most ruthless men"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Journalists; Spies;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A compassionate spy [videorecording] / by Hall, Joan,on-screen participant.; Hall, Theodore A.(Theodore Alvin),1925-on-screen participant.; James, Steve,1955-film director,screenwriter.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Ted Hall, Joan Hall.Recruited in 1944 to help create the world's first atomic bomb, Ted Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key intel to the Soviet Union. After the war, he fell in love with and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for the explosive secret of his espionage. The pair raised a family while living under years of FBI surveillance and intimidation. A COMPASSIONATE SPY, from two-time Oscar nominee Steve James (HOOP DREAMS), reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, its profound impact on history, and the couple's remarkable love and life together during more than 50 years of marriage.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Spy films.; Hall, Theodore A. (Theodore Alvin), 1925-; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Spies; World War, 1939-1945; Espionage; Nuclear weapons;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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