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A squad of American soldiers moves beyond the beach of the Normandy D-Day invasion. The men, then, embark on a dangerous special mission with Captain John Miller in charge. Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Surrounded by the brutal reality of war, each man searches for his own answer.
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Kennebec Large Print
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2009.
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623 pages ; 22 cm.
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A German-sponsored IRA uprising is suspected when fifty Browning Automatic Rifles are stolen; Billy Boyle is sent to recover the weapons, but bodies accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies.
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One brave task force will take on an army.
It is the summer of 1940 — and Italian forces have entered British Somaliland. While this invasion is in progress, a small party of British soldiers is on its way to destroy a supply dump in the desert hills.
Strafed by Italian planes, the young lieutenant in command is killed — leaving behind four non-commissioned soldiers and the civilian driver. Cut off behind enemy lines — their radio dead, their...
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He must save the past, for the peoples' future...It is 1943, and Naples has been looted by the Allies and Axis powers alike, its priceless art treasures coveted by some of the most corrupt criminal minds in Europe. The country swarmed with bands of partisans, who included communists, genuine patriots, escaped POWs and ex-soldiers of the Italian army. Alongside them, but operating solely for gain, were gangs of bandits. Sergeant Tom Pugh was in Field...
5) Up For Grabs
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A fighting team with a very special difference...
In times gone by, the looting didn't start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat.
With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anything going, people stole whatever wasn't screwed down — and flogged it on the Cairo black market. The British... The Italians... and Rommel's Afrika Corps: they all used each other's captured weapons, stores,...
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