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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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Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Traces the sophisticated D-Day operation through which extraordinary spies deceived the Nazis about the location of the Allied attack, profiling the successful Double Cross System and the remarkable individuals who used the program to save thousands of lives.
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Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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"Describes early battles of the American Civil War including the attack on Fort Sumter, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Shiloh, and others. Includes critical "Think About It" questions and a "Voices from the Past" special feature"--
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Series
Revolution trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
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Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic"--
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English
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Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written.
Set in Russia during the Napoleonic era, this epic novel follows the fortunes of five aristocratic Russian families over the course of the French invasion. Tolstoy's timeless portrayal of the fates of families set against the backdrop of war is ultimately optimistic and life-affirming, with the educated, but socially...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.
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English
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A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience with the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body. He details his resolve to re-enter service after a grueling recovery and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Placed in charge of a team of black scouts by a skeptical General David Hunter, Harriet Tubman devises the largest plantation raid of the Civil War and leads a fleet of gunships up the Combahee River in South Carolina in an attempt to free hundreds of slaves.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads"--
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Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18-written with his full cooperation and participation. Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney is a United States Marine who holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills (and the second most of any US service member in history), having recorded 103 confirmed kills in 16 months...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a chronicle of the band of maverick fighter pilots who signed on for the extremely dangerous top-secret "Iron Hand" program during the Vietnam War, which used revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology.
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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.