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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Army is one of the largest ground forces in the world. It uses many different vehicles and tools to accomplish missions. Students will discover how the military uses the latest technology to outfit their troops and vehicles for 21st century warfare.
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Language
English
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Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers?.I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier.
The personal documents...
6) Soldier dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone.Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away to join an increasingly desperate army. Assigned to the experimental War Dog School, Stanley is given a problematic Great Dane named Bones to train. Against all...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
日本語
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
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English
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"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--
14) The lucky ones
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Colee, TK and Cheever are three soldiers who return home from the Iraq War after suffering injuries. They learn that life has moved on without them. The three end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. Colee is on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family. TK is seeking the confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury threatens his sexual function. Cheever is a middle-aged man who is planning to hit the casinos in...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Connected Soldiers recounts the action sequences that made the author a great combat leader, the methods he used to build unit cohesion, and then how he supported his wife as a stay at home father when his wife went off to war"--
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Jarhead and Phil Klay, a Marine Combat Cameraman offers a character-rich, unfiltered look at military life in Afghanistan, from a Millennial perspective of soldiers raised with modern media and graphic video games"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the...
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