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Series
Camel Club volume 1
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a murder with ties to a prestigious businessman's club, homeless conspiracy theorist Harry Stone steals a crucial piece of evidence from the scene and is subsequently pursued by a dangerous member of the club.
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Series
Language
English
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Explores the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower through the lens of his last three days in office in January 1961, revealing him to be a model of strong yet principled leadership.
January 1961: President Eisenhower has three days to secure the nation's future before his young successor, John F. Kennedy, takes power--a final mission by the legendary leader who planned D-Day and guided America through the darkening Cold War. Bret Baier, the Chief Political...
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
263 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie...
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Series
David Shirazi volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
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Language
English
Author
Series
David Shirazi volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
490 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the prophecy of the Twelfth Imam seemingly fulfilled, Iran's military prepares to strike Israel and bring about the End of Days. CIA operative David Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the clock is ticking.
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spurred on largely by two world wars, the first half of the 20th century was a time of monumental technological advances all over the world. The most promising area of scientific exploration was the nature of atoms, the particles that made them up, and the power they contained. The world was introduced to many everyday items and processes that dominate our society today: the automobile, airplanes, television, and radar, to name just a few. Timelines...
Author
Series
End volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
599 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joshua Jordan remains in Israel, out of reach of U.S. authorities and their trumped-up charges against him. His wife, Abigail, continues to lead the Roundtable to prove his innocence. Following Russia's nuclear attack, Israel cleans up the bodies of dead enemy soldiers for 7 months and embarks on its 7-year plan -- both per the prophecies in Ezekiel. When Israel's leadership is tempted to sign a peace proposal initiated by the UN under Coliquin, Joshua...
9) Deep strike
Author
Series
Trident deception volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A shoulder-launched missile attack on a convoy of vehicles leaving the U.N. headquarters in New York kills several diplomats, including the American ambassador. Security footage reveals that the killer behind the attack is a disgraced former special forces operative, Mark Alperi. But before U.S. intelligence operatives can catch up with him, Alperi is already onto the next phase of his plan. With funding from the nearly shattered ISIS, Alperi plans...
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing...
12) Gambling with Armageddon: nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War--how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes...
13) Alas, Babylon
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Publisher
Harper Perennial/OliveEditions, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vi, 355 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy.
"From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
"The Cold War's most dangerous moment: a high-stakes and secretive game of nuclear brinksmanship that played out in the forests of Germany, in stealthy submarines underneath the Atlantic and Pacific, in hidden London compounds, in fortified bunkers and code rooms across the globe. The year...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a renegade group of soldiers, scientists, and spies who were sent into Axis territory to spy on and sabotage Germany's nuclear weapons research and prevent Hitler from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 538 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century--the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis--America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors. Combining in-depth...
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English
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"From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare--and its far-reaching implications On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad. But this time, there was no warning and no explanation. This was a covert operation, with one goal: to destroy a nuclear reactor being built...
20) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.