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Library of America ; 181Summary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRALowry, Lois
Summary: "From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner KenardPak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word LowryIsenberg, Sheila.
Summary: An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone she met with her beauty and intelligence. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago's high society to a Viennese medical school, and then to the Austrian underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.53 ISEWashburne, Seth P.
Summary: A highly-detailed history of the first, and arguably the best ever, Army troop carrier squadron in the South Pacific. The Thirsty 13th shows then-and-now aerial photos of all four U.S. camps, four main overseas camps, and three of four additional overseas camps; shows the airfields used, the aircraft by serial number, a complete roster, their missions, and what they did for fun. More than 2,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thirsty 13th LLC 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WASStratton, Donald
Summary: A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRATTON, DONALD STRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B STRATTON STRCunningham, Chet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.545 CUNSisson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SISSON, FRANK SISSledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLEAndrade, Allan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 ANDGarland, Joseph E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Protean Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 GARBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
Summary: In December 1944, Hitler launched a desperate massive counterstrike at the Allies, with thirty-eight German divisions slamming through American lines. Then the 101st Airborne was thrown into the fight. Fresh from seventy-two brutal days of combat in Holland, with little food and ammunition, the Screaming Eagles struck back-and stunned the German forces. Then the real battle for the town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BURBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 BURCharles, H. Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zenith Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 CHALangrehr, Henry
Summary: Chronicles the firsthand experiences of a paratrooper who survived the Allied Invasion of Normandy and escaped imprisonment in a Nazi work camp before making his way to freedom.$5NjBwBT
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGREHR, HENRY LANLiebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)
Contents: The road back to Paris -- Mollie and other war pieces -- Uncollected war journalism -- Normandy revisited.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 LIEWeller, George
Summary: Vivid and heart-stopping, the dispatches of World War II reporter George Weller are immortalized in a new collection--edited by his son--of wartime reports that give firsthand accounts of the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 WELLER, GEORGE WELSummary: Chronicles the remarkable story of the legendary alpine fighting force known as the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Their claim to fame began during World War II when the U.S. Army advanced on the Germans who were entrenched in Italy's heavily fortified mountaintops. After losing 15,000 soldiers attempting to capture this critical high ground, the U.S. Army brass called up the 10th, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LASMegellas, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MEGHoyt, Edwin Palmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 HOYHynes, Samuel Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.C. Beil 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 HYNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5426 HYNWard, H. (Hubert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1stBooks Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 WARD, HUBERT WARPyle, Ernie
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and company 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PYLManchester, William
Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007