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Language
English
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. The eagle of Napoleon was a potent symbol of military might, men fought and died to possess the "cou-cou" that his regiments carried into battle. It represented the fidelity of a regiment to the cause of the French Empire, and more particularly the attachment of the brave warriors who fought beneath...
2) Invasion USA
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The guys attack this Cold War drama with the usual arsenal of riffs.
4) No surrender
Publisher
ITN
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A British soldier is locked up by his own army for military misconduct, but is unleashed by the British as their secret weapon when fighting the Egyptian soldiers, who are led by General Yousef al-Masri in Karmouz, Alexandria during English-occupied Egypt.
6) Sobibor
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
A war drama based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and focuses on Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in SOBIBOR, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Fourth Great Ninja War rages on, and danger comes from every angle. Old comrades and enemies have risen from the grave under the control of Kabuto to fight the Allied Forces. While some retain their calm, others must wrestle with their emotions. Naruto's training has made him more powerful; but some believe his possession of the Nine Tails makes him a liability. Can the Allied Forces survive assassins and their reanimated friends to win the war?...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
9) Anthropoid
Series
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A historical war-drama based on the extraordinary true story of two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lockdown, they must find a way to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever. Nominated for Best...
Publisher
distributed by Showgate / Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jonah is a child soldier and the newest bodyguard for Koko, an international arms dealer with an entourage of hired guns. The cold-blooded kid hates Koko's line of work, but following her into the darkest corners of the black market might be the only way he can find those responsible for his family's slaughter. Besides, his employer isn't like most merchants of death. She uses guile and cutthroat tactics to keep her clients armed to the teeth, all...
11) The great escape
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history-who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted.
12) Farewell
Publisher
NeoClassics Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In 1981 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. U.S.-Soviet elations are at their lowest point in more than a decade. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhney. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
13) Fail safe
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
14) The last Vermeer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
"While Joseph Piller ... a Dutch...
15) Screamers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The year is 2078. The man is rebel Alliance Commander Col. Joseph Hendricksson, assigned to protect the Sirius 6B outpost from ravage and plunder at the hands of the New Economic Bloc. His state-of-the-art weaponry is known as Screamers: man-made killing devices programmed to eliminate all enemy life forms. Screamers travel underground, their intent to kill announced by ear-piercing shrieks. They dissect their victims with precision, then eradicate...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ace Ventura has emerged from a self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway. He travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred albino bat which will avert a war between with Wachootoo and Wachati tribes. It is up to Ace to find the sacred bat before the two tribes start fighting a savage war.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Revolutionary War-era secret sends three soldiers on an epic quest across 1940s Europe to recover a piece of American history. Philadelphia, 1776: George Washington asks Betsy Ross to design the first flag of the future United States of America. Her housemaid, Angela Brown, adds to it a secret tribute to the black community: a black cotton star that she slips under one of the white ones. Dover, 1944: A soldier named Lincoln receives a letter from...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
"Deranged Dr. Goldfoot...invents a machine that builds sultry, bikini-clad sex sirns, whom he programs to seduce the world's wealthiest men into signing over their fortunes. But when Secret Agent Craig Gamble learns of Goldfoot's evil plot, he knows he must destroy these gorgeous gold diggers before losing his heart - and quite possibly his life - to the hottest assassins ever built!" -- Container.
19) Assassin
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A private military operation led by invents futuristic microchip tech that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions. But when an agent is killed during a secret mission, his wife takes his place in an attempt to bring the man responsible to Justice.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of Scotland's ancient clans is a blood-soaked saga of battles and feuds, loyalty and betrayal, love and death set against the country's wild mountains and glens. Their fierce warriors were legendary, and their deeds of heroism and villainy shaped the destinies of Scotland₂s most iconic characters. Discover how the clans crushed the English King's mighty army to help win Scottish independence, and how they used clan muscle to plot, maneuver...
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