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1) Coriolanus
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English
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The story takes place in Rome shortly after the expulsion of the Tarquin kings. Ordinary citizens are rioting after stores of grain were withheld. The rioters are particularly angry at Gaius Martius, a brilliant Roman general whom they blame. War breaks out with a neighboring Italian tribe, the Volscians, who are led by Martius' great rival, Tullus Aufidius.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution"--Amazon.com.
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. McLanahan tries to get his superiors to pay attention and is ignored. Russian president General Anatoliy Gryzlov is determined to punish McLanahan and his fleet of robotic warplanes for...
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English
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New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina hot-sheets motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can't be controlled. Within hours the general's wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
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English
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This book provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious fears in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's...
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Publisher
Plainview Publishing and Images
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"General Winfield Scott Hancock was given his marching orders in the spring of 1867. Arguably the greatest corps commander of the American Civil War, Hancock would lead a large expeditionary force into the heart of the American West for the expressed purpose of intimidating and removing the Plains Indians from contested lands in Kansas, Nebraska, and eastern Colorado Territory. Critical to the success of Hancock's mission was the newly formed U.S....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, the author paints a full portrait of Washington's life and career in the context of eighteenth-century America, richly detailing his private life and illustrating the ways in which it influenced his public persona.
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Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels . . . Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"This epic tale of warriors and bravery, rebellion and revenge, reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family���and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his brothers sent away. Yoshitsune was raised in his enemy���s household until he was sent away to live in a monastery. He grew up skinny...
19) The Generals
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 6
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"They were the leaders, the men who made the decisions that changed the outcome of battles and the fate of continents. Now they led America's finest against her most relentless enemy deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of Americas most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a wealth...