Roth, Jonathan P.

Summary: Professor Roth, a military historian, presents a different look at war and its history. Instead of focusing on battles, campaigns, and strategies in individual wars, he looks at the story of the intimate interconnections of war with human cultures and societies and how these connections have shaped history. War not only destroys, it creates: the growth of essential new technologies; the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2009

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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 1
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Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 3
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Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 GRE

Andreas, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 AND

Schmidt, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCH

Stafford, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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

Oleszewski, Wes.

Summary: A follow up to the wildy successful WWII and the Great Lakes. This book involves a more personal and up close look at obscure topics and people relating to the Great Lakes and the war effort.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios, Inc. 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 OLE

Liulevicius, Vejas G.

Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIU

Liulevicius, Vejas G.

Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTO
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2

Reynolds, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.314 REY