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Makos, Adam

Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

Hogan, William R.

Summary: "A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf-and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HOG

Megellas, James.

Summary: What World War II Lieutenant Megellas's memoir lacks in narrative force and elegance it makes up for in its unvarnished contribution to the historical record. Megellas was a senior at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis. during the Pearl Harbor attack; barely six months later, he had reported for duty and soon was enlisted in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. Landing in Italy on the eve of the Anzio...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MEG

O'Donnell, Patrick K.

Summary: Members of the Ranger and Airborne troops from World War II tell their own stories of dropping behind enemy lines, in a series of eyewitness accounts of the war in North Africa and Europe based on more than six hundred interviews with the veterans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ODO

Makos, Adam

Summary: "Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMOYER, CLARENCE MAK

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War Makos

Bolger, Daniel P.

Summary: "A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BOL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars Bolger

Guarnere, William.

Summary: Guarnere gives a gripping account of D-day from the partrooper's perspective. In vivid detail, Guarnere and Heffron re-create dropping into Holland to capture the roads and bridges between Eindhoven and Arnhem, known as Hell's Highway. Through much of 1944 the friends fought side by side--until Guarnere lost his right leg in the Battle of the Bulge and was sent home. Heffron went on to liberate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GUA

Alexander, Larry

Summary: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, an entirely new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice, and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought, and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II. Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sergeant Forrest Guth, Alexander crosses an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALE

Miller, Donald L.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Chronicle of the U.S. 8th Air Force's daylight bombing campaign over Europe during World War II, from its genesis to the end of the war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007

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Malarkey, Don

Summary: Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 MAL

Gerard, Philip.

Summary: Profiles the virtually unknown 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an elite, thousand-man "ghost army" that helped win the war in Europe and fought in more campaigns than any other unit in the European theater of operations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 GER

McKenzie, John D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 2000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 McKen

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: Drawing on hundreds of interviews and oral histories, Ambrose recreates life on the front lines during one of the bloodiest periods of World War II: From D-Day to the surrender of Germany. "The most gripping account of the second World War that I have ever read".--Joseph Heller. Photos, maps.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 AMB

Sisson, Frank

Summary: Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Patton's death, a Third Army soldier's firsthand account of his service beside the history-shaping general relates his participation in key events, including the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SISSON, FRANK SIS

Winters, Richard D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2006

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: Through hundreds of interviews & the examination of countless documents, the author has created a rounded portrait of Eisenhower in World War II, his relationship with his "boys," & a chronicle of American participation in the European theater. From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 AMB

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 AMB

Fussell, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 FUS

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to their disbanding in 1945, historian Steven Ambrose tells the story of E Company of the U.S. Army's 506th Regiment. As they advanced through Europe during World War II, the men of "Easy" Company kept getting the tough assignments, from parachuting into France early D-Day morning, to capturing Hitler's Bavarian outpost.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5421 AMB

Kershaw, Alex

Summary: "From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024

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Fussell, Paul

Summary: Looks at World War II in Europe, from D-Day to the fall of Berlin, from the perspective of the American infantry soldiers who fought, capturing the horrors and hardships of battle while dealing with issues of leadership, strategy, and tactics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FUS

Holland, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars Holland

Matzen, Robert D.

Summary: In March 1941, Jimmy Stewart, America's boy next door and recent Academy Award winner, left fame and fortune behind and joined the United States Army Air Corps to fulfill his family mission and serve his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in 20 often-brutal World War II combat missions over Germany and France. In mere months the war took away his boyish looks as he faced...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B STEWART MAT

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ABD

Brotherton, Marcus.

Summary: From the co-author of "Call of Duty" comes a new collection of untold stories from the legendary Easy Company, the military unit immortalized in "Band of Brothers."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BRO

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