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Paul M Kennedy
(1,470)
Summary: "Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who...
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BOOK
Call #: 940.54 KEN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Richard Panchyk
(128)
Summary: Describes the causes and history of World War II, and includes interviews with participants and suggested activities.
BOOK
Call #: J 940.53 PAN
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Hillenbrand
(897,362)
Summary: 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...
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BOOK
Call #: 940.5472 HIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Hillenbrand
(897,286)
Summary: Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
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Call #: 940.5472 HIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Hillenbrand
(897,348)
Summary: 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...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 940.5472 HIL
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: "On December 7 1941 the Japanese bombed the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor, situated on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. Over sixty years after the event, eyewitnesses and experts have come together to...
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DVD
Call #: DVD 940.5426 EYE
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(100)
Summary: Collects war stories told by the men who lived through the battles of Bataan, Oki Nawa, Iwa Jima, Midway, Bloody Tarawa, and the Doolittle Raid, among other World War II battles.
BOOK
Call #: 940.54 WAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John C McManus
Summary: The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months -- or years -- of fight does the enemy have left....
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BOOK
Call #: 940.5426 MCM
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bill O'Reilly (read by Robert Petkoff)
(18,603)
Summary: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK 940.5426 O'RE
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bill O'Reilly
Summary: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the...
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BOOK
Call #: 940.5426 O'RE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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