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Summary: " "You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 FLELance, Rachel
Summary: "This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Summary: 1857: war is raging in China and from India comes the alarming news of a sepoy mutiny which threatens thousands of British lives in the Bengal Presidency. This is especially alarming news to Commander Phillip Horatio Hazard, for two of his sisters are in India. Anxious for their safety, as well as that of his fellow countrymen, Hazard boards the HMS Shannon, bound for Calcutta. Closely based on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUThorland, Donna.
Summary: "1775, Boston Harbor. The gold is Spanish, the sloop is American, and the captain is dead. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition for ballast and a fortune in foreign gold ... into a country on the very knife's edge of war. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the bullion, impound the vessel, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Contents: Naval fact and naval fiction -- The world of the seaman -- The ships -- Officers -- The lower deck -- Techniques -- Life at sea -- Enemies and allies -- The navy in action -- The experience of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LAVRonald, D. A. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2745 RONMoore, Peter
Summary: "A history of the legendary ship Endeavour"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 MOOParkin, Simon
Summary: "The triumphant true story of the young women who helped to devise the winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic." -- From book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PARRooks, A.E.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Black Joke, a ship in the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and its quest to liberate as many enslaved people as possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 ROOSmyth, Denis
Summary: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SMYWeir, Gary E.
Contents: 1. Stalins grand plan -- 2. Cruises and troubles -- 3. "Underway on nuclear power" -- 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis -- 5. An uncertain nuclear beginning -- 6. Death in the depths -- 7. A variety of intelligence gathering methods -- 8. Improving the breed -- 9. An insider's view of the mystery of the Kursk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 WEIMassie, Robert K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4594 MASMacintyre, Ben
Summary: From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars MacIntyreSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023