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1) Wings of War
Author
Publisher
Dutton Caliber
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese heritage and the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
vii, 241 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to racial inequality and discrimination...
Author
Publisher
You Choose, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces have violently conquered lands across Europe. They have created brutal camps where Jews, prisoners of war, and other perceived enemies work themselves to death. You are fighting against the Nazis on the frontlines in Europe. YOU CHOOSE what part will you play in fighting for freedom. Are you willing to pay the ultimate price?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Robert Bowen was drafted into Company C, 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, as World War II broke out, and soon afterwards found himself storming ashore amid the chaos on Utah Beach, through unfamiliar terrain littered with minefields and hidden snipers. He was wounded during the Normandy campaign but went on to fight in Holland and the Ardennes where he was captured and his "trip through hell" truly began.
In each of Bowen's campaigns,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop--a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler's military. A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British military camp in the North African desert with an incredible story to tell. He is the only survivor of an undercover operation meant to infiltrate a Nazi base,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
iv, 316 pages : illustrations, photographs, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide. In the Mediterranean, Rommel's early successes in Africa were erased by the surrender of Tunisia, and German forces barely escaped Sicily before the Allies seized the island. On the Eastern Front, Soviet T-34s beat German armour in the massive tank battle at Kursk. At sea, the Allies countered...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xii, 420 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this dramatic story of World War II, Jay A. Stout describes how the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. In order to defeat Germany in World War II, the Allies needed to destroy the Third Reich's industry and invade its territory, but before they could effectively do either, they had to defeat the Luftwaffe, whose state-of-the-art aircraft and experienced pilots protected...
Series
Service publication volume 50
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
ix, 89 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the history of World War II (1938-1945) on the European and North African fronts in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
We were eagles the Eighth Air Force at War volume Vol. 2
Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
256 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this second volume, Martin Bowman tells the story of the Eighth Air Force's campaign over Germany and Occupied Europe in the words of the men who flew the missions.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xiv, 140 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bayer Nonen Ross saw his life played out in three parts: from 1917 to 1942 he was a dutiful son of Swedish immigrants in Mountain Lake, Minnesota learning the skills of dry cleaning and tailoring. From 1973 to 1945 he lived through hell as a medic during World War II in Northern Africa, Sicily, and Western Europe. From 1946 to 1990 he was back in Minnesota as a family man and businessman and all the while trying to forget the War. As was true of...
Author
Series
We were eagles the Eighth Air Force at War volume Vol. 1
Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
224 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book, illustrated with both black-and-white and period colour pictures, tells the story of US Eighth Air Force operations in the words of the men who flew on them, from that initial raid over the Netherlands and the first attack by the Fortresses on Rouen to the opening mission against Germany itself and the famous B-24 raid against the Romanian oilfields at Ploesti.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II. 'I am going to Spain with the boys,' Martha Gellhorn wrote. 'I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them.' On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn, the third...
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