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Ethan Summersby is the oldest of four kids. When their mother dies he feels that it is responsibility to look after the others. He has loved once in his life and the morning after he proposed she disappeared. He could never love or want another. His mother's Will leaves him money to invest in the horse ranch he wants to help his cousin start but there are conditions in which is does not want to accept.
Amber Holland is a 33 old inspiring chef. She...
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"The first volume of a two volume anniversary history of the early Royal Marines.
The Royal Marines can trace their origins back to the formation of 'The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot' in 1664…The Royal Marines as we know them today were formed in 1755 and since that time they have distinguished themselves in many conflicts fought by the British to the present day. Numerous books have been written about the exploits of the...
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"The first volume of a two volume anniversary history of the early Royal Marines.
The Royal Marines can trace their origins back to the formation of 'The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot' in 1664…The Royal Marines as we know them today were formed in 1755 and since that time they have distinguished themselves in many conflicts fought by the British to the present day. Numerous books have been written about the exploits of the...
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"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Capt. Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine brigade's actions there-along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the brigade in the battle reports-made the Corps famous.
The Marines went to war as part of the American Expeditionary Force, bitterly resented by the Army and Gen. Pershing. The Army tried to use them solely as labor...
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With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain'sarmored battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver useswartime photos and extensively researched, exquisitely presentedcolor illustrations to cover theSherman tanks used by the units of the Royal Armoured Corps and the Royal Marines...
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People dream of being stranded in paradise… until it happens for real.You know those dumb quizzes on social media that tell you to pick the one person you wouldn't mind being stuck on a deserted island with? Well, a few months ago, I would have said Kate. I thought she was the one. Until she ghosted me.Now she's back and wants to make amends. She had a reason for what she did, even if it hurt, so against my better judgment I invited her to go fishing...
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The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length. Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare and the Commandant General Royal Marines, this seventy-page aide memoir is, in essence, the distillation of major lessons learned by the British wartime...
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This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed...
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The story of the Americans who came under attack five hours after Pearl Harbor was hit: "Intriguing, informative, gripping, and at times very moving."-Naval Historical Foundation
This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus Depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the US Navy-charting the contractors' hard-won progress as they scramble to build...
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3/7 Marines engage in intense street-by-street fighting to put down the uprising in Husaybah in April 2004.
During the April 2004 fights throughout Iraq, most media attention was focused on the city of Fallujah. However, at the same time, out on the border with Syria in and around the city of Husaybah, fighting was equally intense. This book tells the story of that period through many first-person accounts of intense fighting in the town of Husaybah,...
13) Devil Dogs
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PFC Douglas 'Java' Belfountain and his companions continue the struggle to stay alive in this installment of Marines in the Apocalypse.
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