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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, "A Farewell to Arms "is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this...
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When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
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2013.
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An historical account of the view of deserters during World War II, this story deals with ordinary men under pressure to accomplish enormous and paradoxical expectations imposed on them. It is a history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines. This book offers a new perspective on the Second World War, delving deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this portrait of men overlooked...
4) Rope burn
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"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time-- on a brutal prison chain gang. Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....
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After the war, Union veteran Bobby Hale sets his sights on California, but only makes it to Montana. Stumbling around the West, from the Wyoming Territory to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, he finds meaning in the people he meets. This is the story of life in a place where every minute is an engagement in a kind of war of survival, and how two people -- a white man and a mixed-race woman -- can manage to find a pathway to their own humanity.
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"Like many a veteran of the Civil War, Cap McKenna went west to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne. Out riding one day, McKenna comes across an abandoned infant, whom he takes in and cares for until the baby's...
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"Dakota Territory, 1867. The ODriscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Toms lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series...
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Deutsch
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A German army deserter finds an abandoned Nazi captain's uniform in the final weeks of World War II. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despite the suspicions of some. Citing direct orders from the Fuhrer himself, he soon takes command of a camp holding German soldiers accused of desertion and begins to dispense harsh justice.
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During the Civil War in seventeenth-century England, a group of deserters flee through an overgrown field and are captured by an alchemist and forced to help him find a hidden treasure.
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2020.
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298 pages ; 24cm
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English
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"Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak out and change U.S. politics, social welfare systems, and histories. I Ain't Marching Anymore carefully traces soldier dissent from...
11) Saga: Volume six
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 6
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[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 5
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[2015]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
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[2013]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- p. [4] of cover.
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2021.
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519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, resenting the white man's invasion of their sacred hunting grounds, ruthlessly attacked wagon trains and settlements. From its scattered forts the Army struggled to keep peace, but every cavalryman going on patrol realized that it might be his last. Knowing the dangers, Lieutenant Zane Travis was surprised to find...
16) Rogue soldiers
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2015.
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260 pages (large print) ; 19 cm.
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English
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Army investigator Captain Slade Moran is hunting the killer of an officer when he rides into Grey Ridge, having lost the trail of the fugitive. Fresh orders await him at Fort Grant, where he finds a hornets' nest of trouble. There has been a spate of inexplicable desertions, trouble between the troopers and townspeople, and a young lieutenant has been court-martialled and cashiered for embezzlement - though his commanding officer doubts his guilt....
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Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 3
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2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets"--Publisher's website.
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Trailsman volume 364
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2012.
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167 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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While trying to locate three widows who have gone missing in the Rocky Mountains, Skye Fargo locks horns with Dub Kreeger and his ruthless gang of army deserters who have been killing and stealing their way through the treacherous terrain.
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 17
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2003.
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322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
20) Deserter
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[2021]
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384 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world...A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're...
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