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Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?
2) Indivisible
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Based on the true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. With a strong, faith-filled marriage, the Turners are ready to follow their calling: serving God, family, and country. Fresh from seminary and basic training, Chaplain Turner and his family arrive at Fort Stewart. Before the Turners can even unpack, Darren is deployed to Iraq. Heather is left taking care of their three young children alone; as well as serving the families...
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"A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central...
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Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"As a SEAL commander, Rorke Denver is uniquely qualified to answer questions about what makes a hero or a leader, why men kill, how best to serve your country, how battlefield experiences can elevate us, and most importantly, why we fight and what it does for and to us. In Worth Dying For, Denver tackles many of these issues by sharing his personal experiences from the forefront of war today."--Amazon.com.
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2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xvii, 234 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"The anthology, which features a foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the our wars' generation: Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror...
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Series
Ben Kincaid novels volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
The Disinformation Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator. Mark Owen?s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the author?s thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His follow-up, No Hero, offers a rare counterpoint: an account...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The man who led the intelligence war that killed Osama bin Laden traces a life of leadership in public service, from his tenure in Congress through his years as director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
715 pages ; 24 cm
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"When the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo."--Publisher's website.
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
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Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
15) Obama's wars
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 441 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xviii, 766 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
A former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xlii, 502 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
Over a thirty-five year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of...
18) The red circle: my life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and how I trained America's deadliest marksmen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
380 p., [16] : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations, to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and personal look at the inner workings of the US military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career designing new post-9/11 sniper training courses that...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This was his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades, Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, and taken hostage....
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