Pacific Sniper: A World War II Thriller

Pacific Sniper: A World War II Thriller
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Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 0967416280
ISBN-13 : 9780967416281
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Pacific Sniper: A World War II Thriller by : David Healey

In December 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunges the United States into war. Fresh from the hardscrabble mountains of Appalachia, Deacon Cole joins the fight against Imperial Japan. In his first test against the enemy, he will use all his skill with a rifle against a deadly Japanese marksman. Across the beaches and jungles, they take part in the savage battle for control of a Pacific island. Can he protect his squad, or will they fall, one by one, under the enemy's crosshairs?

Ghost Sniper: a World War II Thriller

Ghost Sniper: a World War II Thriller
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Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0615945902
ISBN-13 : 9780615945903
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghost Sniper: a World War II Thriller by : David Healey

June 6, 1944. On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own. One is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, while the other is the dreaded German "Ghost Sniper" who earned his nickname on the Eastern Front. Locked in a deadly duel across the hedgerow country of France, the hunter matches wits and tactics against the marksman, both of them one bullet away from victory-or defeat-as Allied forces struggle to gain a foothold in Europe.

War of the Rats

War of the Rats
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Publisher : Bantam
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9780307575371
ISBN-13 : 0307575373
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis War of the Rats by : David L. Robbins

For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. And with it, the world.... German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men—one Russian, one German—each the top sniper in his respective army. These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Each man has his own mission: to find his counterpart—and kill him. But an American woman trapped in Russia complicates this extraordinary duel. Joining the Russian sniper's cadre, she soon becomes one of his most talented assassins—and perhaps his greatest weakness. Based on a true story, this is the harrowing tale of two adversaries enmeshed in their own private war—and whose fortunes will help decide the fate of the world.

Red Sniper

Red Sniper
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Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0692847952
ISBN-13 : 9780692847954
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Sniper by : David Healey

Red Sniper is the story of a rescue mission for American POWs held captive by the Russians at the end of World War II.For these American POWs, the war is not over. Abandoned by their country, used as political pawns by Stalin, their last hope for getting home again is backwoods sniper Caje Cole and a team of combat veterans who undertake a daring rescue mission prompted by a U.S. senator whose grandson is among the captives. After a lovely Russian-American spy helps plot an escape from a Gulag prison, they must face the ruthless Red Sniper, starving wolves, and the snowy Russian taiga in a race for freedom.In a final encounter that tests Cole's skills to the limit, he will discover that forces within the U.S. government want the very existence of these prisoners kept secret at any price.

Time to Kill

Time to Kill
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781250012876
ISBN-13 : 1250012872
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Time to Kill by : Jack Coughlin

A pulse-racing thriller about Islamic terrorists bent on delivering Egypt into the hands of America's arch enemy--Iran, in the newest thriller in the "New York Times"-bestselling series featuring American sniper Kyle Swanson.

Sniper's Justice

Sniper's Justice
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Publisher : Intracoastal
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 0967416272
ISBN-13 : 9780967416274
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Sniper's Justice by : David Healey

Just when it looks like Allied troops are finally winning the massive Battle of the Bulge in the snowy Ardennes forest, German forces launch a devastating counter-attack called Operation Nordwind. U.S. sniper Caje Cole and his squad are among those rushed to support the battered Allied troops in the Vosges Mountains. They find themselves defending a mountain village from Panzers and a crack Wehrmacht force that includes a cruel German sniper known as The Butcher, whom Cole has tangled with before.Surrounded in the deep, wintry hills, the odds seem impossible, but the defenders have Cole and his rifle on their side.For Cole, the battle leaves some unfinished business. Years later, on a trip to Germany to help dedicate a WWII museum, Cole will have to settle the score once and for all to satisfy his "Sniper's Justice."

What Soldiers Do

What Soldiers Do
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9780226923093
ISBN-13 : 0226923096
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis What Soldiers Do by : Mary Louise Roberts

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

Iron Sniper

Iron Sniper
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0692101241
ISBN-13 : 9780692101247
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Iron Sniper by : David Healey

Summer 1944. When German sniper Dieter Rohde's older brother is unjustly shot for desertion by the SS, he will stop at nothing to win the Iron Cross medal and redeem his family's name by targeting as many Allied troops as possible. Rohde's deadly efforts bring him into direct confrontation with American sniper Caje Cole as the final pitched battle for France takes place around them at the Falaise Pocket.

Sniper Ridge

Sniper Ridge
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Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9798667961871
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Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Sniper Ridge by : David Healey

While the politicians on both sides negotiate, the armies in the field are fighting a brutal war of attrition across the rugged Korean Peninsula. Sniper Caje Cole and his squad have one clear objective, which is to capture the next hill and keep it from falling back into enemy hands. That's not easy when the enemy still attacks in overwhelming numbers. At the Battle of Triangle Hill, the soldiers find themselves in a stalemate with Chinese forces, fighting to capture and then regain a strategic foothold. To make matters worse, a deadly enemy shooter has positioned himself on the hill known as Sniper Ridge, picking off the defenders and outshooting Cole. To defeat this enemy, Cole must return to his mountain roots as a hunter, tracker, and jaw-dropping marksman.

The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper
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Publisher : Minotaur Books
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781250805775
ISBN-13 : 1250805775
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gatekeeper by : James Byrne

James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years. A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick (“Dez” to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig, when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled team attempts to kidnap the Chief legal counsel of Triton Expeditors, a major military contractor – in fact, Petra Alexandris is the daughter of the CEO – but their meticulously-planned, seamlessly executed scheme runs into the figurative 'spanner-in-the-works,' Dez himself. After foiling the attack, and with nothing better to do, Dez agrees to help Alexandris with another problem she’s having – someone has embezzled more than a billion dollars from her company and left very few tracks behind. But Dez is a gatekeeper – one who opens doors and keeps them open – and this is just a door of another kind. And the door he opens leads to a dangerous conspiracy involving media manipulation, militias, an armed coup, and an attempt to fracture the United States themselves. There’s only one obstacle between the conspirators and success – and that is Dez, The Gatekeeper.