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[2004]
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Veteran investigative journalist Hersh has frequently described his recent writings for the New Yorker as an "alternative history of the Iraq war." In his attempts to piece together actual lines of ideological and bureaucratic responsibility for the conduct of the Bush administration's "War on Terror," he certainly does provide an alternative to the shallow coverage of much of the American fourth estate. This text gathers most of the New Yorker investigations...
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Consequence is the story of Eric Fair, a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to a detention center in Iraq, to seminary at Princeton, and eventually, to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2004, after several months...
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Times are tough lately, financially and personally, in Betsy Devonshire's life. Her Crewel World needlework shop has been struggling, and she's feeling bad about not connecting with the daughter of her new boyfriend, Connor. So when the Larson family, who bought one of Betsy's cabins, invites her to come and help with renovations, she agrees to go. But their work comes to a chilling halt when they discover a human skeleton under the linoleum and evidence...
8) Rescue dawn
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c2007
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When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
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2017.
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This WWII true crime history reveals a shocking story of murder inside an Arizona POW camp-and the U.S. military's controversial response.
Though Arizona was far from any theater of battle during World War II, the grim realities of combat were brought home with the construction of POW camps. Located outside Phoenix, Camp Papago Park became famous for its prisoners' attempted escape through the Faustball Tunnel, but it also had a dark reputation of...
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2016.
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A look at one U.S. Army private's attempt to free Nazi soldiers from a Colorado prisoner of war camp during World War II.
Harvard honor alumnus Dale Maple had a promising future, but his obsession with Nazi Germany led to his downfall. Classmates often accused him of pro-Nazi sentiments, and one campus organization even expelled him. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, only to be relegated to a unit of soldiers suspected of harboring...
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[2019]
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When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Harris was the sixth American POW captured in the air war over North Vietnam, and for the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs, including John McCain and George "Bud" Day, suffered torture, solitary confinement, and abuse. Their...
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P. A. Pennington novels volume 2
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[2003]
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Wrongfully labeled a chief suspect after a shooting by a long-range sniper, deputy sheriff and former wartime army ranger P.A. Pennington realizes an old nemesis, Nazi colonel Christian Wolfgang Stangl, has returned.
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[2020].
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Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of...
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