Payton, Brian
Summary: "A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story set amid a barren and starkly beautiful landscape during one of the least-known events of World War I, the Japanese occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Payton 2014Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORRobbins, David L.
Summary: A duel between two World War II snipers during the Battle of Stalingrad. The Russian is Vasily Zaitsev, a Siberian peasant who runs the Red Army's sniper school. He does such a good job, the Germans dispatch master sniper SS Colonel Heinz Thorvald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBHornfischer, James D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorSummary: Exposes the fatal errors, startling miscues, and bungled opportunities which turned the tide of the war and forever changed the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORGrossman, Vasily
Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROJonas, Raymond Anthony.
Contents: Pt. 1. The road to Adwa -- Courtly ambitions -- Listing toward Adwa -- Italy in Africa -- The price of liberty -- Black in service of white -- Africa in Italy -- "Something humiliating for my kingdom" -- pt. 2. The battle -- Menelik's march -- Amba Alage -- Stalled at Sauria -- Baratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Aftermaths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 963.043 JONShaara, Jeff
Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAMacGregor, Iain
Summary: "A thrilling, vivid, and highly detailed account of the epic siege during one of World War II's most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie, Iain MacGregor. To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II are sacrosanct. The foundation of the Soviets' hard-won victory was laid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MACBrady, James
Summary: John Basilone was a Marine legend who received the Medal of Honor for holding off 3,000 Japanese on Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross posthumously for his bravery on Iwo Jima.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Lemelman, Martin
Summary: "The thrilling true story of an ancient plant, wonderfully reborn in the modern era through the hard work of two female scientists. Thousands of years ago, in a time of rebellion, the Jewish people fought against their Roman rulers. The brutal Emperor Titus ordered the destruction of everything precious to the Jews: towns, villages, even their beloved Judean date palm trees. Centuries passed....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634 LEMSledge, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940 must rank as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. A third of a million British soldiers were facing annihilation but just days later the majority had been rescued and Churchill had delivered his most famous speech. Vowing never to surrender. This gripping drama/documentary from the BBC offices a unique perspective and a true understanding of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUNLayton, Edwin T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LAYBarron, Leo.
Summary: Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, an Army veteran and historian explores one of the most famous yet little understood clashes of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BARZuehlke, Mark
Summary: Recounts how two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment fought--sometimes hand-to-hand--against German troops for the small Italian port of Ortona in December of 1943, one of the most notable battles ever waged by the Canadians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ZUEBruning, John R.
Summary: "On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Grove, Tim
Summary: Complemented by historical artwork and photos, an account of the lesser-known history of America's national anthem describes the American flag's design, the important contributions of free black soldiers during the War of 1812, and the intense battle that inspired Francis Scott Key's poem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021