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1) Toll of honor

Author

Weber, David

Series

Expanded honor volume 1

Publisher

Baen Publishing Enterprises

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

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""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart? She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's...

2) Irish soldiers in Colonial America (ca. 1650-1825)

Author

Dobson, David

Publisher

Clearfield Company

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

3) Sharpe's command: Richard Sharpe and the bridge at Almaraz, May 1812

Author

Cornwell, Bernard

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and...

4) The Man Who Started the Civil War: James Chesnut, Honor, and Emotion in the American South

Author

Koivusalo, Anna

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"In the pre-dawn hours of April 12, 1861 James Chesnut Jr. hand-delivered a message to Major Robert Anderson, the U.S. Army commander at Fort Sumter. Chesnut informed Anderson that Confederate guns would commence the bombardment of the fort within the hour. Chesnut then piloted a small skiff across the dark waters of Charleston Harbor and delivered a fateful order to the batteries stationed on James Island. They were to open fire on Fort Sumter. Chesnut...

5) Muse of fire: World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets

Author

Korda, Michael

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...

6) All the glimmering stars: a novel

Author

Sullivan, Mark T

Publisher

Lake Union Publishing

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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"Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel. Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph...