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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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Summary: "Full of drama and intrigue, with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink, this is the true story of a German agent sent to the United States during World War I to launch a terror campaign of sabotage and murder, and the American counterintelligence effort that led to his capture"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2024
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Summary: Documents the story of the secret German ship that was responsible for attacks on Allied vessels and housed prisoners, describing the crew's efforts to survive naval attacks and limited resources.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.45943 GUILarson, Erik
Summary: On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.4 LARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars LarsonMacintyre, Ben
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4814 MACLanctot, Neil
Summary: "By turns a colorful triptych of three American icons who changed history and the engrossing story of the roots of World War I, The Approaching Storm is a surprising and important story of how and why the United States emerged onto the world stage"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 LANMillman, Chad.
Summary: An account of the World War I bombing of Black Tom Island in New York Harbor describes the reticence of the president to prevent the attack, the German government's evasion of responsibility, and the efforts of lawyers to determine accountability.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 MILMassie, Robert K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4594 MASPreston, Diana
Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PRERebman, Nick
Summary: Details the Paris Peace Conference, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and its aftereffects on Germany from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 REBJordan, David (David John)
Summary: Hitler's U-boat arm formed the backbone of the German war effort at sea. Th is study describes the evolution, design, construction, strategy and techno logy of these mighty oceanic submarines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5451 JORRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOPreston, Diana
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.45 PREPreston, Diana
Summary: Examines the sinking of the Lusitania on May 17, 1915 by a German torpedo which killed 1200 civilians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.45 PREHochschild, Adam
Summary: "A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3493 ZUCHagedorn, Ann.
Summary: The surprising story of America in the year 1919--democracy under stress. In the aftermath of an unprecedented world war and a flu pandemic, Americans were full of hope for the benefits of peace. But instead, the fear of terrorism filled their days. Bolshevism was the new menace, and the federal government, utilizing a vast network of domestic spies, began to watch anyone deemed suspicious. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.913 HEGMassie, Robert K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 MASZelikow, Philip
Summary: "During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly. Two yearsinto the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ZELBascomb, Neal
Summary: "The story of a group of Allied POWs in WWI who dared to escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2018