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Author
Series
Publisher
Brown Bear Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In a time line format, describes the causes leading up to the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War and political events and battles during the war. Includes primary source quotes"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Company
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the military campaigns of Operation Desert Storm in which over half-a-million American troops and troops from twenty-eight other nations joined forces to liberate Kuwait.
Author
Publisher
Goosebottom Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the life of the fifth-century B.C.E Greek princess that grew up to be a queen and famous admiral mainly noted for her role as a Persian ally in the Battle of Salamis, in spite of living in a society that placed very little value in women.
9) Three kings
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version
Language
English
Description
Four American soldiers determined to take home more than sand fleas from the Gulf War, go off into the Iraqi desert to find millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered...
11) The salesman
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016, 2017]
Language
Persian
Description
The story of a couple whose relationship begins to turn sour during their performance of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a Major Motion Picture from Universal Pictures New York Times bestselling author Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. When the U. S. Marines -- or "jarheads" -- were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the first Gulf War, Anthony Swofford was there. He lived in sand for six months, he was punished by boredom and...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
300 : In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or...
14) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
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 they...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets. The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions. When the survivors were eventually released, they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon ... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A military memoir with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, or in their everyday lives, by a veteran air-refueling expert, with a foreword by Rush Limbaugh."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Persian
Description
When a journalist is stranded in her remote village, Zahra takes a bold chance to reveal what the villagers will stop at nothing to keep hidden. Thus begins the remarkable story of what happened to Soraya, a kind-spirited woman whose bad marriage leads her cruel, divorce-seeking husband to trump up false charges of infidelity, which carry an unimaginable penalty.
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