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Disaster at Kasserine

Ike and the 1st (US) Army in North Africa 1943

By: Charles Whiting

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Disaster at Kasserine

Ike and the 1st (US) Army in North Africa 1943

By: Charles Whiting

Those who imagined that the arrival of a major American force in North Africa would immediately tip the balance against Rommel's Africa Korps were to be proved badly wrong. In what turned out to be a disastrously over-ambitious plan, the 1st (US) Army sailed across the Atlantic and went straight in the Operation Torch landings in Tunisia. Just how ill-prepared the GI Army and its generals were, became horrifically apparant at the Kasserine Pass.

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Pen and Sword

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0850529824

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Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology

Vol. CVI

By: August Hirsch,Charles Creighton

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Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology

Vol. CVI

By: August Hirsch,Charles Creighton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385311128

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9783385311121

Cigar Box Lithographs

Volume II

By: Charles J. Humber

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Cigar Box Lithographs

Volume II

By: Charles J. Humber

Just as this publication was ready for the printer, a very rare cigar box was listed on an internet auction site. Recognizing its rarity and extraordinary appeal, a decision was made to bid on it with the hopes of purchasing it. As author, I won. But I also knew that it was too late to include this Davy Crockett cigar box alongside the more than 100 other cigar boxes already headlined and profiled in this particular 200-page volume. After winning the bid a final decision was made to illustrate this cigar box on the back cover of this production. In so doing readers have a chance to scrutinize a very rare and a one-of-a-kind cigar box. Of course, any cigar box that lithographically headlines Davy Crockett usually identifies the famous American frontiersman with the Alamo (see this Volume, page 114) and how he and 200 Texans were killed in 1836 by Santa Anna’s 1500 strong Mexican forces. A wide-spread interest in Davy Crockett ever since has become the norm. Tennessee Ernie Ford popularized him in 1955 with his hit “The Battle of Davy Crockett”. John Wayne immortalized Davy Crockett when he played the famous frontiersman in the 1960 Hollywood blockbuster, The Alamo. The stunning lithographic print on the inside lid of a wooden cigar box made by William Simpson of Massachusetts, circa 1900, now highlights this back cover of this book and demonstrates the ultimate bravery of a young Davy Crockett protecting individuals inundated with a blizzard and petrified of wolves trying to push their way into the pioneer Log Cabin (see this Volume, pages 108- 109) that the legendary frontiersman is valiantly guarding and resolutely defending. This Davy Crocket lithographic print is one of the highlight prints of the book....

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FriesenPress

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1525566725

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9781525566721

Haunted Washington

Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Evergreen State

By: Alan Wycheck,Charles A. Stansfield

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Haunted Washington

Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Evergreen State

By: Alan Wycheck,Charles A. Stansfield

• Most notorious Bigfoot sightings • UFO reports and cover-ups • Lake Okanagan's famous serpent Ogopogo • Ghosts of Lewis and Clark, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and Bing Crosby • Odd phenomena at Grand Coulee Dam, Olympic National Park, and Fort Vancouver

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Stackpole Books

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0811744221

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9780811744225

Early Responses to Renaissance Drama

By: Charles Whitney

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Early Responses to Renaissance Drama

By: Charles Whitney

A study of early responses to the plays of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other Renaissance dramatists.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521858437

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9780521858434

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil

By: Lita Epstein,Charles Jaco,Julianne C. Iwersen-Niemann

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil

By: Lita Epstein,Charles Jaco,Julianne C. Iwersen-Niemann

Describes how the discovery of oil has affected world history and current events.

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Penguin

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1592571409

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9781592571406

American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

By: Charles Carey Jr.

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American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition

By: Charles Carey Jr.

Praise for the previous edition: "This fun-to-read source will add spice for economics and business classes..."—American Reference Books Annual "...worthy of inclusion in reference collections of public, academic, and high-school libraries. Its content is wide-ranging and its entries provide interesting reading."—Booklist "A concise introduction to American inventors and entrepreneurs, recommended for academic and public libraries."—Choice American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition profiles more than 300 important Americans from colonial times to the present. Featuring such inventors and entrepreneurs as Thomas Edison and Madame C. J. Walker, this revised resource provides in-depth information on robber barons and their counterparts as well as visionaries such as Bill Gates. Coverage includes: Jeffrey Bezos Michael Bloomberg Sergey Brin and Larry Page Michael Dell Steve Jobs Estée Lauder T. Boone Pickens Russell Simmons Oprah Winfrey Mark Zuckerberg.

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Infobase Holdings, Inc

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1438182147

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9781438182148

Great Rivers - Great Hatches

By: Charles R. Meck,Greg Hoover

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Great Rivers - Great Hatches

By: Charles R. Meck,Greg Hoover

After teaming up to fish every major trout stream in the United States, Mecka and Hoover describe the fishing, hatches, and special regulations for each. Contents: Introduction; Insect Emegence; A Closer Look at Some of the Great Hatches; Great Rivers of the East and their Hatches; Great Rivers of the Midwest and their Hatches; Great Rivers of the West and their Hatches; Great Hatches on Lousy Days; Patters for the Hatches; Some Proposals for Better Fishing.

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081172770X

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Encyclopedia of African-American Education

By: Charles A. Asbury,D. Kamili Anderson,Michael Fultz,Sylvia M. Jacobs,Faustine C. Jones-Wilson,Margo Okazawa-Rey

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Encyclopedia of African-American Education

By: Charles A. Asbury,D. Kamili Anderson,Michael Fultz,Sylvia M. Jacobs,Faustine C. Jones-Wilson,Margo Okazawa-Rey

This indispensable reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans in the United States. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the volume chronicles the history of African-American education from the systematic, long-term denial of schooling to blacks before the Civil War, to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the era of Reconstruction, to Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights reforms of the last few decades. Entries are written by expert contributors and contain valuable bibliographies, while a selected bibliography of general sources concludes the volume. The African-American population is unique in that its educational history includes as law and public policy the systematic, long-term denial of the acquisition of knowledge. In the 18th century, African-Americans were initially legally forbidden to be taught academic subjects in the South, where most African-Americans lived. This period, which ended around 1865 with the conclusion of the Civil War and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, was followed by the introduction of laws, policies, and practices providing for rudimentary education for 69 years under the dual-school, separate-but-equal policies established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). These policies did not end until the Brown v. Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955 were reinforced by the passage of civil rights and equal opportunity legislation in the mid-1960s. The education of African-Americans has been a continuing moral, political, legal, economic, and psychological issue throughout this country's history. It continues to consume time and attention, and it remains an unresolved dilemma for the nation. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this indispensable reference offers a comprehensive overview of significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, persons, and theories related to African-American education from the early years of this country to the present day. The entries are written by expert contributors, and each entry includes a bibliography of works for further reading. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005230

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9780313005237

The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

By: James Charles Roy

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The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland

By: James Charles Roy

This is the story of the 'failed' British Empire in Ireland and the sad end of the Tudor reign. The relationship between England and Ireland has been marked by turmoil ever since the 5th century, when Irish raiders kidnapped St. Patrick. Perhaps the most consequential chapter in this saga was the subjugation of the island during the 16th century, and particularly efforts associated with the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the reverberations of which remain unsettled even today. This is the story of that ‘First British Empire’. The saga of the Elizabethan conquest has rarely received the attention it deserves, long overshadowed by more ‘glamorous’ events that challenged the queen, most especially those involving Catholic Spain and France, superpowers with vastly more resources than Protestant England. Ireland was viewed as a peripheral theater, a haven for Catholic heretics and a potential ‘back door’ for foreign invasions. Lord deputies sent by the queen were tormented by such fears, and reacted with an iron hand. Their cadres of subordinates, including poets and writers as gifted as Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Walter Raleigh, were all corrupted in the process, their humanist values disfigured by the realities of Irish life as they encountered them through the lens of conquest and appropriation. These men considered the future of Ireland to be an extension of the British state, as seen in the ‘salon’ at Bryskett’s Cottage, outside Dublin, where guests met to pore over the ‘Irish Question’. But such deliberations were rewarded by no final triumph, only debilitating warfare that stretched the entire length of Elizabeth’s rule. This is the story of revolt, suppression, atrocities and genocide, and ends with an ailing, dispirited queen facing internal convulsions and an empty treasury. Her death saw the end of the Tudor dynasty, marked not by victory over the great enemy Spain, but by ungovernable Ireland – the first colonial ‘failed state’.

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Pen and Sword Military

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152677075X

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Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln

The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed

By: Charles B. Strozier

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Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln

The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed

By: Charles B. Strozier

On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later, "I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face." Speed suggested Lincoln stay with him in a room over his store for free and share his large double bed. What began would become one of the most important friendships in American history. Speed was Lincoln's closest confidant, offering him invaluable support after the death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, and during his rocky courtship of Mary Todd. Lincoln needed Speed for guidance, support, and empathy. Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of a relationship that was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men who played off each other's strengths and weaknesses to launch themselves in love and life. Their friendship resolves important questions about Lincoln's early years and adds significant psychological depth to our understanding of our sixteenth president.

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Columbia University Press

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0231541309

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Wildcatters

The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family

By: Charles Moncrief

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Wildcatters

The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family

By: Charles Moncrief

This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas. Moncrief reveals how petty office politics in his family's business led to a frame-up, explores the effects from the subsequent IRS raid, and details the years-long trial that ended with the Moncrief family absolved of all charges.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621570959

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9781621570950

The Supermen

The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

By: Charles J. Murray

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The Supermen

The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

By: Charles J. Murray

The SUPERMEN "After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for their queries, but none came. When he left, the head of NCAR's computing division chided the programmers. 'Why didn't someone raise a hand?' After a tense moment, one programmer replied, 'How do you talk to God?'" -from The SUPERMEN The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer "They were building revolutionary, not evolutionary, machines. . . . They were blazing a trail-molding science into a product. . . . The freedom to create was extraordinary." -from The Supermen In 1951, a soft-spoken, skinny young man fresh from the University of Minnesota took a job in an old glider factory in St. Paul. Computer technology would never be the same, for the glider factory was the home of Engineering Research Associates and the recent college grad was Seymour R. Cray. During his extraordinary career, Cray would be alternately hailed as "the Albert Einstein," "the Thomas Edison," and "the Evel Knievel" of supercomputing. At various times, he was all three-a master craftsman, inventor, and visionary whose disdain for the rigors of corporate life became legendary, and whose achievements remain unsurpassed. The Supermen is award-winning writer Charles J. Murray's exhilarating account of how the brilliant-some would say eccentric-Cray and his gifted colleagues blazed the trail that led to the Information Age. This is a thrilling, real-life scientific adventure, deftly capturing the daring, seat-of-the-pants spirit of the early days of computer development, as well as an audacious, modern-day David and Goliath battle, in which a group of maverick engineers beat out IBM to become the runaway industry leaders. Murray's briskly paced narrative begins during the final months of the Second World War, when men such as William Norris and Howard Engstrom began researching commercial applications for the code-breaking machines of wartime, and charts the rise of technological research in response to the Cold War. In those days computers were huge, cumbersome machines with names like Demon and Atlas. When Cray came on board, things quickly changed. Drawing on in-depth interviews-including the last interview Cray completed before his untimely and tragic death-Murray provides rare insight into Cray's often controversial approach to his work. Cray could spend exhausting hours in single-minded pursuit of a particular goal, and Murray takes us behind the scenes to witness late-night brainstorming sessions and miraculous eleventh-hour fixes. Cray's casual, often hostile attitude toward management, although alienating to some, was more than a passionate need for independence; he simply thought differently than others. Seymour Cray saw farther and faster, and trusted his vision with an unassailable confidence. Yet he inspired great loyalty as well, making it possible for his own start-up company, Cray Research, to bring the 54,000-employee conglomerate of Control Data to its knees. Ultimately, The Supermen is a story of genius, and how a unique set of circumstances-a small-team approach, corporate detachment, and a government-backed marketplace-enabled that genius to flourish. In an atmosphere of unparalleled freedom and creativity, Seymour Cray's vision and drive fueled a technological revolution from which America would emerge as the world's leader in supercomputing.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471048852

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9780471048855

Jesus Is Here

The Sequel to In His Steps

By: Charles M. Sheldon

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Jesus Is Here

The Sequel to In His Steps

By: Charles M. Sheldon

The enduring classic, now with updated language for today’s reader... Seventeen years after Reverend Henry Maxwell first challenged his congregation to ask, “What would Jesus do?” Jesus himself arrives in the town of Raymond. He appears quietly at first, then attracts increasing attention—and with attention, controversy. Raymond, along with the rest of the United States, faces a new challenge: How will they respond when face to face with the radical—and sometimes uncomfortable—message of Jesus Christ? When confronted with the physical presence of Jesus in their daily lives, are they truly willing to follow him?

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Gilead Publishing

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1683701437

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9781683701439

Let Me Tell You Another Story, a “Dirty Dozen” and “Wag a Tale”

By: Charles Keith Hardman

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Let Me Tell You Another Story, a “Dirty Dozen” and “Wag a Tale”

By: Charles Keith Hardman

After Ransom awakens in a hazy room with his hands and legs bound, he knows the voodoo witch he just met in New Orleans is now in control of his life. As he loudly proclaims he is ready to be her voodoo man, Patricia warns him to be careful what he wishes for. Moments later, the life is drained from his soul and Patricia has created her first zombie. In a collection of terrifying tales, Charles Keith Hardman once again invites others to step inside the minds of a diverse band of characters facing bizarre encounters. Lawrence knows he should be dead. The stainless steel table he lies on in the morgue is cold. All he remembers is shooting a bullet into his head. As he removes his toe tag and searches for clothes to wear, Lawrence realizes something strange is happening to him. But what will transpire once he opens the door to the morgue? After an alien spaceship crash lands in the New Mexico desert, weapons experts race to the site where they discover an alien has died. After rushing the corpse to a laboratory, the scientists take DNA samples. But what they do next is top secret. Let Me Tell You Another Story shares short tales that lead others down a frightening path lined with aliens, zombies, voodoo, and things that go bump in the night.

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Archway Publishing

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148085168X

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The Age of Discovery

By: Charles Kovacs

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The Age of Discovery

By: Charles Kovacs

An overview of world history from the time of the Crusades to the Renaissance. Includes Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth and Francis Drake. A resource for Steiner-Waldorf teachers of Class 7 (age 12-13).

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Floris Books

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1782507043

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9781782507048

Directing Shakespeare in America

Historical Perspectives

By: Charles Ney

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Directing Shakespeare in America

Historical Perspectives

By: Charles Ney

This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Charles Ney examines rehearsal and production records, as well as evidence from diaries, letters, autobiographies, reviews and photographs to consider each director's point of view when approaching Shakespeare and the differing directorial tools and techniques employed in significant productions in their careers. Directors covered include Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson Welles, Margaret Webster, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, Craig Noel, Jack O'Brien, Tyronne Guthrie, John Houseman, Allen Fletcher, Michael Kahn, Gerald Freedman, Joseph Papp, Stuart Vaughan, A. J. Antoon, JoAnne Akalaitis, Paul Barry, Tina Packer, Barbara Gaines, William Ball, Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Ellis Rabb and Julie Taymor. Directing Shakespeare in America: Historical Perspectives offers readers an understanding of the context from which contemporary practitioners operate, the aesthetic philosophies to which they subscribe and a description of their rehearsal methods.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474289703

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9781474289702

Murder3gun

Inspired by Actual Events

By: Charles E. Feldmann

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Inspired by Actual Events

By: Charles E. Feldmann

A gang member executes a high-ranking Marine Corps officer in broad daylight, and Captain John Henry, a young Marine Corps lawyer, is assigned the murder trial of a lifetime. Henry knows he will be a hero for prosecuting a real life monster that has brutally murdered one of his own. But tragedy awaits him. The military investigation turns up more questions than answers, and the high stakes court-martial begins to unravel. Nothing is what it seems. Now the military justice system turns on him and Captain Henry the prosecutor becomes the prosecuted.

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1499078773

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9781499078770

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