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61) Days of infamy
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In this story of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the notorious gambler Yamamoto is pitted against the equally legendary American admiral Bill Halsey in a battle of wits, nerve, and skill.
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
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With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a focus to its ominous end--the Allies' incomplete victory and its tragic ramifications. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches events from a truly...
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Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. THE COLDEST WINTER changes that. David Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the...
66) Black sheep
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Many military tactics during World War II were based on the assumption that new technologies would lead to decisive battlefield victories, demoralization of the enemy by intensive bombing, or even a quick surrender. Political and military leaders, Allies and Axis alike, believed that "blitzkrieg" was the best way to victory. But in The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier argues that this was not the case.
Mosier examines the major European campaigns,...
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Pub. Date
c2008
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
75) D-Day
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light, " tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
80) Campfire and battlefield: an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the Civil War
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Trident Press International
Pub. Date
c1999
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