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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[c1982]
Language
English
Description
The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush...
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber 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--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Series
Corps volume 08
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Put in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations, General Fleming Pickering is faced with two covert missions in the Gobi Desert. Called to duty is a Marine he doesn't expect...a scapegrace pilot named Malcolm, his son. Together, they will venture incognito—and with luck they may even come out alive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
Author
Series
Sunrise at Normandy volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When an Army Ranger and a librarian are bound together by a marriage of convenience, neither suspects it might lead to love. Will D-day--and a foreboding dream--tear them apart?
1943. Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the U.S. Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for-- fulfilling the recurring...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Autumn 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. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
Author
Publisher
MBI Pub. Co. LLC and Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Bombs Away! covers strategic bombing in Europe during World War II, that is, all aerial bombardment of a strategic nature which took place between 1939 and 1945. In addition to American (U.S. Army Air Forces) and British (RAF Bomber Command) strategic aerial campaigns against Germany, this book covers German use of strategic bombing during the Nazi's conquest of Europe: the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, and the V 1 and V 2, where the Luftwaffe...
12) War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur and the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth." Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps-New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined to seize the island as a cornerstone of the Empire's strategy to knock Australia out of the war. Allied commander-in-chief...
14) D-Day
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II ... Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the heroic men who sacrificed everything at Iwo Jima to defeat the Armed Forces of Emperor Hirohito--among them, a member of her own family"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole's odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all."- Philadelphia Inquirer
In his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story-a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faith
In One Soldier's Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his harrowing experience in World War II, and how he overcame life-threatening injuries long before rising to...
17) Day of infamy
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Pathfinder Editions
Pub. Date
c1957
Language
English
Description
Describes the events of December 7, 1941, before, during, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the reactions of the men who lived through the attack.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed works about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and Citizen Soldiers. But it is, as always with Stephen Ambrose, the ranks, the ordinary...
Author
Series
Louis L'Amour's lost treasures volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one careless moment could lead to disaster. But yet another sort...
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