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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
480 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of eight American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima during World War II, one of whom was rescued and later became president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops.
25) Hiroshima
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in the "New Yorker" issue of August 31, 1946, this is an account of the ruin of a city and the wreck of human lives by one atomic bomb. The report focuses on six individuals who survived in that city.
26) The hiding place
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis, and for their work they were tested in the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her family survived to tell the story of how faith ultimately...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Recounts the discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following years to researching the identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts and breaking new ground in the world of diving.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The leaders of the Manhattan Project were alarmed to learn that Nazi Germany was far outpacing the Allies in nuclear weapons research. Hitler would soon have the capability to reverse the entire D-Day operation and conquer Europe. Kean tells the story of a rough and motley crew of geniuses-- dubbed the Alsos Mission-- sent into Axis territory to spy on, sabotage, and even assassinate members of Nazi Germany's feared Uranium Club. The Mission included...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The incredible, untold story of the WWII vets who overthrew their corrupt hometown government--the only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence. Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. On Election Day, Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot boxes and brought them to the jail "to be counted" in secret....
34) When tigers ruled the sky: the Flying Tigers : American outlaw pilots over China in World War II
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""Leebaert has done the near impossible-crafted a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle."- Richard Norton Smith, author of An Uncommon Man, former director of the Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Ford presidential libraries. "A fascinating and absorbing analysis of FDR's brilliantly chosen team of four courageous and creative men and women."-Susan Dunn, author of 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler-the Election Amid the Storm,...