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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Geoffrey C. Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and helped to win - the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.Focusing on the citizens of four... |
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The History Buff's Guide to World War II
Thomas R. Flagel
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At a cost of sixty million lives, the largest war in the history of the world devoured cities, gave birth to horrific new weapons, and involved the three worst mass murderers of all time. It also gave rise to some of the finest acts of courage, sacrifice, and lasting change ever t |
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World War II
R. G. Grant - DK CHILDREN; Har/Cdr edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning with the complex political and social circumstances that led to World War II, this volume comprehensively discusses the decisions made, battles fought, lives affected, and subsequent results of the war that defined the twentieth century. It includes first-hand testimony of young... |
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
Tom Brokaw - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made... |
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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen - GoodKnight Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered... |
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The Battle of Midway
Craig L. Symonds - Oxford University Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force the Kido Butai had been sunk and their... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.The America we live in today was born,... |
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Bill O'Reilly The Killing Series books on WWII
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this... |
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The Holocaust
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Holocaust
Angela Wood - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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Explaining the complex political and social backdrop that allowed the Holocaust to occur, as well as its progression and aftermath, this comprehensive volume contains first-hand testimony from survivors and enables readers to appreciate the impact of the Holocaust on real people and the lives... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang
Format: Print book
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A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator,... |
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The Boy: A Holocaust Story
Dan Porat - Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized... |
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The Holocaust
David M Haugen - Greenhaven Press
Format: Hardcover
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This series provides multiple views of momentous events in recent history; each book helps readers develop critical thinking skills, increase global awareness, and enhance their understanding of international perspectives about historic events. ; ; Using primary and secondary sources, each... |
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World War II Spies
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Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Stephan Talty - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis.... |
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly... |
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World War II Cryptography
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Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
Stephen Budiansky
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A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the Battle of Midway until the last Germ |
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Local WWII History
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Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One AmericanTown
Kevin Coyne - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Follows the experiences of six World War II soldiers--all from the town of Freehold, New Jersey--in the Army, Navy, and Air Corps, from the African-American soldier who endured a segregated army and race riots back home to the sailor who struggled to adapt to life as a post-war police officer.... |
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
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Format: Hardcover
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From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings... |
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Saving and Reclaiming Art and Literature
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri Chanel - Icon Books
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the worlds most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps.... |
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