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1) The Beast
Pub. Date
c2001
Summary
A portrait of a young soldier caught in a battle between his conscience and his country. Set in Afghanistan.
2) Halo legends
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
Focuses on Master Chief's mysterious origins, the Spartans' advanced combat capabilities and the tense rivalry between the Spartans and the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. Dynamically depicted are humankind's ongoing battles with the Covenant.
3) Jarhead
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Follows "Swoff, " a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war become clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines, they...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride because he's been drafted. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force, and most folk will never be the same, including pint-sized Ben, big-city bruiser Irvin and a jittery aptitude tester. Then there is Sgt. Orville King who is an old-timer driven crazy by Will's gee-whiz efforts at friendship.
6) Sahara
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Summary
An explosive war story about a ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Fact-based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H, which protected the Western territories in post-Civil War times. The story focuses on the troops' attempts to capture an Apache warrior, Vittorio, who slaughters the settlers in New Mexico. The film examines the racial tensions that existed between the black soldiers and some of the white soldiers, and the truths about the Indian invaders.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risks his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
