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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, as experienced by the people who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between were el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined, depressed by changes in the output mix and resource shocks from enemy action, including...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...
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Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Winter 1944, Yugoslavia. American airmen parachuted from crippled bombers. Some landed in safety. Others were slaughtered by German fire. Extreme weather closed the skies; the Germans blocked the path to the sea. British agents eventually extracted sixty-six airmen. Eighteen remained-- and were sent over the mountains at the prodding of guns by the Partisan forces who were desperate to rid themselves of the Americans. Stanley, the son of one of the...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success. Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes. These Arctic convoys have been mythologized as defenseless vessels...
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English
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In 1940, France fell to the Nazis, and the German army almost immediately began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, wine makers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their heroism has remained largely unknown -- until now. Wine and War tells the alternately thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious and often daring...
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Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How did the Allies win World War II? Superior technology played a huge part in their victory, and readers discover exactly how in this exploration of how STEM was applied in the war effort. From aircraft carriers and submarines to flamethrowers and rocket launchers, readers learn the ins and outs of World War II weaponry, vehicles, and more. The insightful main text is paired with fact boxes, sidebars, and historical photographs. This high-interest...
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Andre Deutsch
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Over 150,000 troops landed on the five beaches of D-Day, with over 20,000 reported casualties across both sides. June 6, 1944 will be a day forever remembered in history. The story of D-Day has been told on countless occasions, and is an event that reverberates through time as one of the most pivotal moments in our history. 'Everything We Have' tells the personal stories of the people involved in Operation Overlord, in their own words. Using rare...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Michael Korda takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than 3000 young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force--often no more than 900 on any given day--stood between Hitler and victory. Korda traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. He deftly interweaves the critical strands of...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Adapted for young readers from the New York Times bestseller by Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain is the remarkable true story of three brave Japanese American soldiers who fought for the United States during World War II while facing discrimination at home. Perfect for readers of The Boys in the Boat.
After the Japanese military bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese Americans became the subject of racism and discrimination within the United...
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Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Clarence Tinker always knew that he wanted to do something extraordinary. Something adventurous. Something that made a difference in the world. But as a member of the Osage Nation at the turn of the twentieth century, there were a lot of obstacles that he had to face to achieve his dreams. When he was a child, Clarence was taken away from his family and community. He was forced to attend a prisonlike boarding school, like many other Native children...
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English
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"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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Publisher
Whaler Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Today when local newspapers are going out of business, corporate profits drive press coverage, and unbiased reporting is seen as almost nonexistent, Wallace Carroll's life is a lesson in excellence. A "journalist's journalist," Carroll covered the most significant events of his time, from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 to the U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War. His commitment to the power of words was legendary; his life is essential...
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State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the first of its kind. In her powerful and raw story, she portrays life in the ghettos and her three years of wandering in disguise as a Polish Catholic, trying to escape from the German onslaught. She also recounts how she served for almost a year as a courier between ghettos...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Winston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly discovered documents and archives, Churchill’s American Network reveals how the famed British politician found a network of American men and women who would push American foreign policy in Britain’s direction during World War II—while at the same time producing lucrative speaking fees to support his lavish lifestyle. Stelzer has gathered contemporary local newspaper reports of Churchill’s...
18) Bombing Hitler's hometown: the untold story of the last mass bomber raid of World War II in Europe
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"During the waning days of World War II, five thousand American airmen embarked on a white-knuckled mission to bomb one of Europe's most heavily defended targets--Linz, Austria--the town Hitler called home. This riveting account reveals the never-before-told true story of the mission and the epic journey the surviving airmen endured to return home." --
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry....
20) He leadeth me
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Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
The story of a priest captured by the Russian army during World War II, convicted of being a "Vatican spy," and sentenced to twenty-three years in Soviet prisons and labor camps in Siberia. -- Back cover.
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