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Executive Power
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Vince Flynn
Mitch Rapp is unhappily consigned to a desk job despite his unparralled success as a covert assassin for the CIA. Unable to keep his hands to himself, he soon unearths a plot to simultaneously discredit Israel AND to wipe out terrorism on a worldwide scale, and tries to convince the powers that be that only his particular skills as suited to ...
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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Michael Norman, Elizabeth M Norman
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the ...
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
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Hampton Sides
Sides renders a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines. "Ghost Soldiers" is far more than a thrilling battle saga as the author explores the mystery of human behavior under extreme duress. of photos.
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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James Hornfischer
Desperately fought on the morning of October 25, 1944, the Battle of Samar was an upset victory won by American warships fighting a battle they were never supposed to fight. Filled with riveting details, this is war at sea as it has seldom been presented before.
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In the Presence of My Enemies
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Gracia Burnham
In this riveting personal account of the capture of Burnham and her missionary husband Martin in the Philippine jungle, Burnham tells the real story behind the news about their harrowing ordeal that ended in his death and her rescue. (Christian Religion)
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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Elizabeth M Norman
This is the amazing story of the World War II nurses stationed in the Phillippines--the "Angels of Bataan"--who performed amazing feats of courage and persistence up until their capture by the Japanese.
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The Fighting Agents
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W E B Griffin
In 1943, Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer, has assembled a band of guerrillas in Japan to bring chaos into the Japanese war effort. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) struggles to get supplies to Fertig and his men. In a parallel plot, the OSS is also engaged in a vital mission on another front: smuggling a pivotal atomic scientist ...
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America is in the Heart: A Personal History
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Carlos Bulosan, Carey McWilliams (Introduction by)
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant labourer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
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Evan Thomas
Drawing on oral histories, diaries, correspondence, postwar testimony from both American and Japanese participants, and interviews with survivors, Thomas provides this riveting account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, the culminating battle of the war in the Pacific. Photos. Maps.
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Cat & Mouse
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Harold Coyle
A charismatic terrorist leader unites the various Islamic terrorist factions into a confederation in order to drag the United States into a protracted war. Lieutenant General Scott Dixon, deputy chief of staff for operation with the U.S. Army, and his son, Capt. Nathan Dixon, U.S. Army Rangers, struggle to take down the terrorists--and survive.
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To the Brink
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Cindy Gerard
Bestselling author Gerard spins the third sizzling novel in her romantic suspense series featuring sexy and daring bodyguards who will go to any lengths to protect the ones they love. Original.
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Dogeaters
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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor" (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
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When the Elephants Dance
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Tess Uriza Holthe
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, a group of friends in hiding tell stories about everything from family problems to political activities. As they talk, their basement hiding place is increasingly endangered by the war going on outside their door.
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Blue Afternoon
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William Boyd
This book is the winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search ...
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They were expendable
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William Lindsay White
A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, They Were Expendable offers an account of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three's heroic actions during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual and effective format to tell the story ...
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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
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Dr. Kristin L Hoganson
This study of international relations and gender history reveals how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders' desire to wage conflicts, and traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war.
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Killing Rain
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Barry Eisler
Now employed by the Mossad to remove "problems" in Asia, Japanese-American assassin John Rain also has a new partner in former Marine sniper Dox. But when John botches an assignment, he finds himself on the run from both the Mossad and the CIA.
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
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David J Silbey
It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts--one fought between the Spanish and the allied United States and Filipino forces; one fought ...
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Battle of Surigao Strait
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Anthony P Tully
Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing documentary material ...
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The Philippine Cookbook
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Reynaldo G Alejandro
The extraordinary classic cuisine of the Philippines adapted for the American cook. A treasury of unusual, little-known, and absolutely delicious cooking!
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Some Survived
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Manny Lawton
On April 8, 1942, U.S. troops surrendered to the Japanese on the Philippine Islands. Thousands of P.O.W.s were forced to walk in what became known as the Bataan Death march. Here is the whole shocking story told by a man who lived through it all.
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And the Word Came with Power: How God Met and Changed a People Forever
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Joanne Shetler, Patricia Purvis, Liz Heaney (Editor)
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They Fought Alone
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John Keats
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The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf
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David Sears, Thomas J Cutler (Foreword by)
The story of the largest naval battle in history is told through the personal accounts of veterans Often overshadowed by other Pacific War engagements such as Midway or Guadalcanal, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history. The U.S. Navy's defeat of the combined Japanese fleet during the invasion of the Philippines in ...
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Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney's One-Man Stand Against the Japanese in World War II
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Forrest Bryant Johnson
He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery. But his story has never been told...until now. This is the story of John McKinney, who, on the morning of May 11, 1945, received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. That day, McKinney returned fire, using every available weapon-even his fists-standing alone ...
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