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Fighting Talk

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Books about war are fascinating, if sometimes uncomfortable, reading material. But the more we learn about the mistakes of the past (and present), the more chance we have of preventing them tomorrow.
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    Drawing on her own experiences of growing up in a West Bank village, Nye’s poetry collection is inspired by Janna Tamimi, who at age 7, filmed anti-occupation protests using her mother’s smartphone.
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    Published in association with the Imperial War Museum, this quiz book contains over one thousand questions (and answers), comprehensively covering every aspect of the Second World War.
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    In compact and poetic prose, Bruce Weigl juxtaposes some of the more sobering features of modern society with haunting memories of the Vietnam War.
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    He was left for dead on the Second World War battlefield, mortally wounded by a landmine explosion. But ingesting a lightning struck herb, Calvin cannot age, and cannot die.
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    Set against a backdrop of Vietnam War protests and the civil rights movement, Eleanor’s Wilner’s early uncollected poems explore a struggle for inner liberation, and new life emerging from a crumbling social order.
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    In 1704, Louis XIV’s conquest of Europe looked assured and they were poised to install a French prince on the Spanish throne. But two allies, the Duke Of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy hatched a daring plan which culminated in the battle for Europe, at Blenheim.
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    Based on previously classified documents and rare first-person accounts from those who fought on the front lines, O’Keefe tells the dramatic story of the Black Watch at the bloody battle for Verrieres Ridge in 1944.
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    1970. The Year Of The Metal Dog. Deborah Paredez is born. Her father is deployed to Vietnam with a troop of Mexican-American immigrant soldiers. Iconic images, her father’s photographs and Mexican folklore combine to provide a deep cultural context for this poetic collection from a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.
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    This verse-novel blends historical and fictional voices in a poetic retelling of the stomach-churning climax to the Colorado Coalfield War in April 1914 where over twenty lives, including miners’ wives and children, were prematurely ended by National Guard machine gunfire.
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    It’s October 1944 and in a last ditch attempt for survival, German intelligence launches Operation Finisterre to win Hitler a seat at the negotiating table.

    Meet young German U-Boat captain Stefan Portisch, injured and washed ashore in Northern Spain, and Hector Gomez an FBI plant in the American atomic bomb complex at Los Alamos where the death of a Jewish scientist arouses suspicion of murder.
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    Two young women. Two very different wars. One poppy factory. In 2012, army medic Jess, shell-shocked from her tour of Afghanistan, seeks solace in her great-grandmother Rose’s diaries. In 1922, Rose welcomed home her husband Alfie from the First World War to discover a changed man. Can the poppy factory save both women from heartache?
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    London 1939. Two sisters torn apart by the Blitz. May ‘ the homing pigeon’ joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) to become a gunner girl. Thanks to the war, May’s sister Peggy makes good her escape from an oppressive marriage to a small-time crook. Rivalies, love affairs and fraught friendships follow in a time of war.
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    With the First World War in full swing, American war-correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb crosses paths with a sultry and mysterious actress hiding a secret agenda that may be the key to saving—or toppling—two empires.
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    Deep inside his secret studio, the sinister Dr. Caligari struggles to create an immense painting so hypnotic it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.
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    It’s 2236 and humanity is in the aftermath of a bloody civil war. Pilots Davis and Locklear are preparing for a long weekend when two alien armadas find them outnumbered and outgunned… when the stars fade.
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    In a world kept in equilibrium by superheroes, two British ‘Retirement Bureau’ agents, Fogg and Oblivion, reveal a treacherous secret kept for over forty years...A vivid re-imagining of the 20th Century where superheroes battle to believe in war.
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    Now war has ended, can Karis bring the Sainnites together?
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    Gods of war and demon hordes; where Heaven, Earth, East, and West collide.
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    1916 Dublin. The world is at war and loyalties are divided. But 12 year old Jimmy has his own perspective on things.
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    Technology: the surprising alternative to WOMDs…?
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