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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
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October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire--the fastest fighter aircraft in the world--to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in...
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Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
An articulate, compelling history of American battlefield medics. From Lexington and Concord to Afghanistan to the fight against Covid-19, America's frontline medical teams have braved arrows, bombs, bullets, and potentially fatal disease to do their job. They have always gone the extra mile to be there for others, and if need be, sacrifice their own lives. These are their stories related in gruesome detail. Read preferably after dinner.
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On April 22, 2004, Lieutenant David Uthlaut received orders that his platoon was to leave the town of Magarah, Afghanistan, for a small village on the Pakistan border. The lieutenant protested, but the commanders disregarded his objections. By nightfall, Uthlaut and his radio operator were seriously wounded, and an Afghan militia soldier and a U.S. soldier were dead. The American soldier was Pat Tillman. The Tillman family was first informed that...
9) In Syria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale."--from Imbd.com.
10) Grace is gone
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
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