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Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates how Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Nazi SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann and risked his life countless times to save more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts events surrounding the 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes, France, during World War II, and the plight of eighteen men of a single platoon who were captured and survived in German POW camps through the end of the war.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 270 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members and their capture by the Japanese, followed by months of brutal captivity.
8) The few: the American "knights of the air" who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xi, 301 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the few Americans who decided that they could not remain neutral during World War Two and joined Britain's Royal Air Force to defend the country from Hitler.