Harmel, Kristin
Summary: "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House Pub. 2002
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007
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Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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Summary: "A novel that transcends the limitations of "war fiction," Tom Glenn's Last of the Annamese is a book that examines the choices forced upon those who fight wars, those who flee them, and those who survive them. The rare novel that eloquently describes the burden of loss, Last of the Annamese evokes a haunting portrait of the lives of those trapped in Saigon in April 1975 as the city, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2017
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Summary: In an attempt to regain the upper hand for Germany in the fall of 1944, famed commando Otto Skorzeny plots to have 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate and compromise Allied lines, while a smaller band of highly skilled commandos embark an a more sinister mission with history-changing potential. -- TitleSource III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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Summary: The early years of the reign of Basil II were racked by civil war and his wife's murderous intrigue. When the young son of an Irish slave catches the eye of the Emperor's wife, jealousy and anger come near to bringing down the High City itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2000
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Summary: Newly arrived on the Western front and assigned as a medic, Rivera finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, cut off behind enemy lines--and his only companion is a Nazi trained Doberman pinscher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin. He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once. Now, he's getting a second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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Summary: " From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood. In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the mostdangerous places on earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit scorched by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Driven to do whatever she can to serve, Audrey and her friend enlist in the Army and embark on a new adventure as flight nurses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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Summary: Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese assault on U.S. naval forces in Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces invade Hawaii, planning to use the islands' resources to launch an offensive against the western coast of the continental United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004
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Summary: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then to the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005