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21) War and peace
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English
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An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.
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Liberation trilogy volume 1
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English
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An account of the World War II campaign in Morocco and Algeria. Operation Torch, as it was called, became a proving ground where American officers learned to lead, soldiers learned to hate, and an entire army learned what it would take to defeat a formidable enemy.
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English
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"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"--
On Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest and most brutal battles of World War II, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed and 22,000 were wounded in thirty-six grueling days. MacCallum takes us from...
24) What was D-Day?
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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D-Day spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere.
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English
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2003
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English
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The Burma Road tells the extraordinary story of the China-Burma-India theater of operations during World War II. As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at the war's outset--closing China's seaports--more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a seven-hundred-mile overland route across the Himalayan Plateau to the railhead at Lashio, Burma. But with the fall of Burma in early 1942, the...
29) World War II
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Madacy Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Documents the most important phases of World War II.
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Primas of power volume 2
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English
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"After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A succinct history of Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton recounts key events and provides complementary historic paintings, illustrations, and maps.
33) D-Day survivor
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ITN Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A British paratroop squad are dropped off-target and wiped-out. Private Johnny Barrows is the only survivor; inexperienced, scared and lost behind enemy lines, Johnny must grow up and become a man on his perilous journey to safety. It's a tale of courage and survival set during an offensive that would prove to be the turning point of the war.
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First Person Productions
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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June 6th, 1944 ... D-Day. It was the greatest military assault ever staged. Code named Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Normandy by the Allies involved more than a quarter of a million soldiers, sailors, and airmen, 5000 ships and 3000 aircraft. This is the inside story of D-Day, told by courageous men who fought the battles.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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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.
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Examines the military campaigns of World War II in the Pacific, from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the fall of the Philippines to the United States attacks on Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the Japanese surrender.
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