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1) Querido John
Author
Language
Español
Description
John feels he must re-enlist after 9-11, but what will that do to his relationship with Savannah, who is waiting for him?
" ... John tendrá entonces que tomar la decisión más difícil de su vida, de la optar entre el amor a una mujer y el amor a su país"--Jacket.
2) Jarhead
Pub. Date
[2006]
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...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston's film of The Man Who Would be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins out, shoulders squared and with a sly wink -- star as British Sargeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Bloody violence throughout, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
John awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible. While John tries to piece his reality back together, things get more complicated when he is pursued by a relentless UniSol named Magnus.
5) Stop-loss
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum), who served with him in Iraq. Along with their other war buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
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 becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Colee, TK and Cheever are three soldiers who return home from the Iraq War after suffering injuries. They learn that life has moved on without them. The three end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S. Colee is on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family. TK is seeking the confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury threatens his sexual function. Cheever is a middle-aged man who is planning to hit the casinos in...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...
10) Días sin final
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"En la decada de 1850, tras alistarse con apenas diecisiete años en el ejército de los Estados Unidos, Thomas McNulty y John Cole, su compañero de armas, luchan en las guerras indias y, posteriormente, en la guerra de Secesión. Tras huir de terribles penalidades, estos serán para ellos días llenos de vida y asombro, a pesar de los horrores de los que son testigos y cómplices a la vez"--Cover.
11) Zama
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors' who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama...
12) Hero
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation. With supernatural skill, and no fear, the soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that has massacred his people. To achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat. The story of the First Emperor of China, who is on the brink of winning a war-torn land during the dawn of the Qin dynasty...
Language
English
Description
Heroic, daring and more than just a little colorful, The A-Team is a brave band of brothers who will stop at nothing to get the bad guys. Pile into that famous black van for another season of adventure with Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. as they fight for justice against criminals, while staying one step ahead of their archenemy, Colonel Decker.
14) Sahara
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An explosive war story about a ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.
15) Alias - Maria
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Maria, a thirteen-year-old guerilla soldier, is given the mission to bring a commander's newborn baby to safety in a neighboring town. But nobody knows the secret that she is pregnant with her own baby. Despite the prohibitions against it, Maria decides to keep the baby and is forced run away. A vision of the devastating results of Colombia's armed conflict through the eyes of a young female soldier finding the strength to look for a new life.
16) Amor en la tarde
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Ella alberga un anhelo secreto. Como buena amante de la naturaleza y de los animales, Beatrix Hathaway siempre se ha sentido más cómoda al aire libre que en un salón de baile. Aunque ha asistido a varios actos sociales en Londres y posee una belleza clásica y un espíritu libre, Beatrix nunca se ha enamorado ni sabe lo que es que la cortejen formalmente. ¿Habrá llegado el momento de que la Hathaway menos convencional se conforme con un...
19) For the boys
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
Así es como se libran ahora las guerras: con niños traumatizados, drogados y empuñando AK-47. Los niños se han convertido en los mejores soldados. En los más de cincuenta conflictos violentos que existen actualmente en el mundo, se cree que hay más de 300,000 niños soldado. Ishmael Beah fue uno de ellos.
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