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David L. Robbins, Author . Bantam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80176-7
Intricately plotted, insightful and deeply affecting, this novel by the author of the bestselling The End of War
probes the malignancy of racial prejudice among the self-righteous citizens of a tightly knit Southern blue-collar town. At first, no...
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David L. Robbins, Author . Bantam $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-80177-4
Tigers and T-34s lock horns in this dramatization of the 1943 battle for Kursk, in southwestern Russia, the greatest tank battle in the history of armored warfare. In his fifth novel, Robbins (War of the Rats; The End of War) explores the maelstrom...
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David L. Robbins, Author . Bantam $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-80175-0
In his latest WWII novel, Robbins powerfully integrates the theme of racial bigotry from Scorched Earth
with the successful formula of his previous three combat novels (The End of War
, etc.). The 688th Truck Battalion is part of the famed Red Ball
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David L. Robbins, Author . Bantam $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-80441-6
Set in 1945 near the end of WWII, Robbins's daring thriller opens with a brutal, brilliantly described double murder on the beach near Newburyport, Mass. From that scene to the end of the novel, the author's sure-handed control of his...
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David L. Robbins, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (414p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9058-3
Robbins's ninth novel, the best WWII Pacific campaign novel in a long time, tells the dramatic story of the 1945 rescue of 2,100 American and allied prisoners from the Los Baños camp near Manila. Middle-aged gambler Remy Tuck and his...
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David L. Robbins, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-10830-9
Sweeping in scope, this gripping, admirably researched historical novel resumes the account of WWII Robbins left off in War of the Rats. Picking up the narrative just before the stroke of midnight of New Year's Eve 1944, the saga moves skillfully...
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David L. Robbins, Author, David L. Robbins, Introduction by Bantam Books $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-10817-0
Set in the rubble of Stalingrad during WWII, Robbins's second novel hinges on a dramatic mano a mano confrontation between a Russian sniper and his German counterpart during a pivotal stretch of the historic 1942 siege. Vasily Zaitsev is ""The Hare,"
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David L. Robbins, Author . Bantam $25 (365p) ISBN 978-0-553-80442-3
In this muddled follow-up to 2006's engaging The Assassins Game
, Robbins attempts to create suspense by revisiting the multiple attempts made on Fidel Castro's life in the early 1960s. Professor Mikhal Lammeck—an expert on political
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