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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
3) Platoon
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed.
Description
In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left innocence...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Description
The emphasis was on "wacky," and terms like "politically correct" were not yet in circulation when this slapstick parody of the western genre charged, Cavalry-style, onto the television screens in mid-1960s America. This Army fort is ramshackle; its captain's a well-meaning if inept nebbish; his girlfriend is naturally if unaccountably obsessed with him making her an "honest woman" despite her execrable cooking; and the sergeant and mildly deranged...
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