Men at War

Men at War
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1942
Genre: War
ISBN: 9780517066607

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Includes war stories by Leo Tolstoy, Lawrence of Arabia, William Faulkner, Winston Churchill, John W. Thomason, Marquis James, Richard Aldington, Rudyard Kipling, James Hilton, Ernest Hemingway, C.S. Forester, Stephen Crane, Walter D. Edmonds, Alexander Woollcott, and others.

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 99
Release: 1995-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393038580

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A companion to O'Brian's sea novels, this concise, historical overview offers a straightforward explanation of what daily life was like in Admiral Horatio Nelson's navy. Line drawings and charts help readers to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships and the types and disposition of the guns. Contemporary illustrations and cartoons depict various aspects of naval life, from the press gang to the scullery.

Soldier Spies

Soldier Spies
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2000-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144063517X

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"Griffin's plot stays hot and moves at quicksilver speed." --Kirkus Reviews Two Americans in the just-born Office of Strategic Services take on their most important assignment during World War II: to extract--or eliminate--those Germans with the expertise to develop the atomic bomb.

The Fighting Agents

The Fighting Agents
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2001-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440636990

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The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival.

The Secret Warriors

The Secret Warriors
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1999-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440623317

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Washington D.C., 1942. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he's the backup pilot. And though he's not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will...

The Last Heroes

The Last Heroes
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144063744X

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June, 1941. Determined that the United States will be prepared for war, Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" Donovan orchestrate the most complex espionage organization in history, the Office of Strategic Services. Young and daring, the OSS assemble under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then disperse throughout the world to conduct their operations. And no operation is more critical than the one being conducted by hotshot pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German friend Eric Fulmar: to secure the rare ore that will power a top-secret weapon coveted on both sides of the Atlantic--the atomic bomb.

Men After War

Men After War
Author: Stephen McVeigh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135964653

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This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the "feminizing" contexts of wounding and desertion, this volume draws together leading academics in the fields of gender, history, literature, and disability studies, in an inter- and multi-disciplinary exploration of the conditions and circumstances that men face in the aftermath of war.

The Saboteurs

The Saboteurs
Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2006-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101215003

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W.E.B. Griffin continues his gripping Men at War series, featuring the legendary OSS. As the Battle of the Atlantic rages, German U-boats are sinking U.S. vessels at will. Meanwhile, preparations are being made to invade Sicily and Italy. As the war heats up, "Wild Bill" Donovan and his secret agents find themselves battling on two fronts at once. And fate is about to deal them a surprise that may doom them all.

W. E. B. Griffin The Devil's Weapons

W. E. B. Griffin The Devil's Weapons
Author: Peter Kirsanow
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593422309

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Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series. April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential target slips away. Dr. Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun in the early days of rocket science, but as a man with a conscience he refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. That makes him the most knowledgeable person about German superweapons outside of Germany. The Germans want him. The Soviets are desperate to grab him, but Wild Bill Donovan knows there's only one man who can find him in the middle of a war zone and get him out—Dick Canidy.

Men of War

Men of War
Author: Jessica Meyer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780230302327

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Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War.