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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Documents the stories of four World War II prisoners of war who were tortured by their Japanese captors, describing the events that led to their imprisonment, the brutal conditions that forged their deep bond, and their considerable struggles to re-acclimate to civilian life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers — Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there — were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.
When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
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