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Large type books National parks and reserves United States Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Soviet Union History 1939-1945 United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Psychological aspects United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects War and society War in art Social aspects War, Cost ofSchmidt, Shannon McKenna
Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCHAndreas, Joel.
Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 ANDSontag, Susan
Summary: An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SONSontag, Susan
Summary: Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.6 SONNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 NGUMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0209 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.0209 MACReynolds, David
Summary: A critically acclaimed historian describes the first World War in terms of its lasting impact on politics, diplomacy, and economics as well as art and literature across the twentieth century and not just as a precursor to World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.314 REYFisk, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 FISJunger, Sebastian
Summary: Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve Large Print 2016
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 302.3 JUNMcPherson, James M.
Summary: "In The Long Shadow of War, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War retains such a hold on our national psyche and identity. Though the drama and tragedy of the subject, from the war's scope and size--an estimated death toll of 750,000, far more than all the rest of the country's wars combined--to the nearly mythical individuals involved--Abraham Lincoln,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US McPhersonZuckerman, Larry.
Summary: Publisher description: In August 1914, the German Army invaded the neutral nation of Belgium, violating a treaty that the German chancellor dismissed as a "scrap of paper." The invaders terrorized the Belgians, shooting thousands of civilians and looting and burning scores of towns, including Louvain, which housed the country's preeminent university. The Rape of Belgium recalls the bloodshed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3493 ZUCAdams, Michael C. C.
Summary: Drawing on letters and soldier memoirs, examines the human cost of the Civil War, from the daily distresses faced by soldiers to the psychological damage survivors experienced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
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Summary: "A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder whatmonuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LOWCollingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Summary: A history of the role of food in World War II reveals how more than twenty million people died from starvation, malnutrition and related diseases during the war and traces the interaction between food and strategy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 COLSummary: A collection of writings by the world's foremost military historians shed new light on the causes, events, campaigns, personalities, and repercussions of World War I, including essays by such authors as Thomas Fleming, Robert Wohl, and Sir Michael Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 GREStafford, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 STAPatrikarakos, David
Summary: "War in 140 Characters examines the role of social media and other forms of 'new media' in changing the face of modern warfare. War is, more than ever, a clash of narratives--with each state/party fighting to control the spread of information and project their narrative to the outside world. Social media has shattered traditional hierarchies between the state and its citizens, enabling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 PATPratt, Mary K.
Summary: Examines the historical and cultural events preceding and following the First World War, along with the social implications and technological and strategic advances of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 PRALassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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Summary: Documents the contributions of Soviet airwomen during World War II, examining the formation, obstacles, missions, and legacy of Russia's female combat pilot regiments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019