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"Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving...
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Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, recalls his role as a World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day. It is the story not only of what happened in the desperate hours on Omaha Beach, but of the bravery and courage that preceded them throughout the Second World War -- from the sands of Africa, through the treacherous mountain passes of Sicily and beyond, to...
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Mariner Books
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[2023]
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In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.
85) The steel wave
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Random House Large Print
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c2008
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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.
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In a seemingly idyllic German village during World War II, the daughter of one of Hitler's cabinet members, who has been helping to smuggle Jewish refugees over the nearby Swiss border, hides two refugee children in her home, only to learn that the Führer is coming to visit.
89) The circus train
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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[2022]
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"Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times"--
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"Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight...
91) Every storm
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New from Lori Wick, this stand-alonestory shows how unexpected changes can set the perfect course for love.
1945, WWII—When Lieutenant Donovan Riggs experiences trouble with his PT boat, the sailors of Every Storm make an unscheduled stop...and a surprising discovery.
Lorraine Archer is an American teacher living and working in Australia. While on a flight with her sister, her daydreams are disrupted by the sounds
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World War II British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett's mission to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans is jeopardized by a beautiful Austrian double agent, determined to survive in wartime England, who must choose whether to remainloyal to the British or betray thousands of men to their deaths.
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Will they ever make it to the coast? It all depends on... the HESITANT HERO When Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the States, he settles further south in France, painting for his own pleasure and pursuing a woman he had dated in college. Jolie Vernay has no interest in Tyler, but their lives are soon entwined with those...
94) The white knight
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A fighter pilot in Spain, Luke Winslow loses the woman he loves and turns from his faith. When he accidentally kills an old friend while drunk, out of guilt, he tries to help his friend's sister, Joelle, in her work with troubled girls. In the Army Air Corps, he fights his nemesis from the war in Spain, the Black Knight. Now dubbed the White Knight, Luke fights his foe and for the woman he loves, Joelle. In the heat of life's battles, will Luke turn...
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own surviva-l-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist--behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
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From Germany's invasion of Poland to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, from D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge to Iwo Jima and Bataan, the legendary battles and encounters of the Second World War have been the subjects of innumerable books. Yet, within the history of World War II, a wide range of mysterious, baffling, oddly coincidental, and inexplicable events remain. Now, critically acclaimed military historian William Breuer presents the first...
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Maisie Dobbs novel volume 13
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When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
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From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another "smart, funny, ingenious, revealing tale of London life during the Second World War" (The Independent)-longlisted for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England.
It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Young copy writer Catrin Cole is drafted into the...
99) World War II
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Hammond World Atlas
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c2009
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English
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Provides information and facts on events leading up to the war, important battles and campaigns, political and military leaders, and the effects of the war on society and international relations.
100) Patton
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2006]
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English
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A dramatization of the experiences of General George S. Patton during World War II.
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