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Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
On July 12, 2007, a U.S. airstrike on a public square in Baghdad killed or wounded at least 17 Iraqi civilians, including children and journalists. Disturbing communications between the Apache helicopters and their command center eventually surfaced on WikiLeaks, leading to the arrest of Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning and producing outrage the world over. For Army specialist Ethan McCord, who had been among the first to arrive on foot after...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2011
Language
English
Description
This episode traces the fortunes and fates of the European royal dynasties during the first half of the 20th century. Narrator Lesley Sharp links sequences showing an era of war, revolution, assassination and abdication. Includes footage of Queen Victoria at her diamond jubilee celebrations; Victoria's funeral; Edward VII out hunting; Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; Victor Emmanuel of Italy; Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany; Franz Josef of Austria in Sarajevo;...
7) 49 angels
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
En 2009, montones de niños misteriosamente muertos en un fuego de depósito en Hermosillo, México. Este documental procura traer la justicia a las víctimas.
In 2009, scores of children mysteriously died in a warehouse fire in Hermosillo, Mexico. This documentary seeks to bring justice to the victims.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
November 8, 2018. Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 souls, was destroyed in a fire that left 86 dead. Gee and Anguiano offer a dramatic narrative the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents and first responders. They also explore the science of wildfires in a time of dramatic climate change, the role of the power company PG&E in the blaze, and the efforts to raise Paradise from the ruins. -- adapted from jacket
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Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 18
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge...
10) A Time to Act
Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
Deaths from fires and burns are one of the most common causes of accidental deaths in the United States. With the installation and regular testing of smoke alarms, and having a fire escape plan, the risk of these deaths can be greatly reduced.
13) Alfred and Emily
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a personal meditation on family, war, and memory, the author re-imagines the lives of her parents if World War I had not happened, and also relates the facts of their lives in the wake of the war's devastation.
18) A sunlit weapon
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. 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....
19) On the horizon
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
[An] account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
20) Taking Chance
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's heartland, he will find himself on an unexpectedly emotional journey...
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