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Modern Library chronicles ; 14Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ABDMakos, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMOHogan, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HOGMakos, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMOYER, CLARENCE MAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War MakosBolger, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars BolgerMcKenzie, John D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio Press 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 McKenKershaw, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodKnight Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STEWART MATBrotherton, 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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BROLarimore, Walt
Summary: What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore's story special is what happened in World War II's closing days and the people, and horses, he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permuted Press, LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LARIMORE, PHILIP B. LARMiller, Donald L.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5449 MILO'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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ODOAlexander, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALEGerard, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 GERKershaw, Alex
Summary: "The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERGarland, 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 GARAmbrose, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 AMBAmbrose, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 AMBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 AMBFussell, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 FUSFussell, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FUSLoFaro, Guy.
Summary: In the midst of the battle of the Bulge, there occurred on exchange that, perhaps more than any other, exemplifies the attitude of the troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. It was 22 December 1944. The U.S. First Army was still in headlong retreat from the onrushing panzers that were seemingly everywhere. A column of American tanks came upon a lone bazooka gunner in a snow-covered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 LOFMcCarthy, Peter
Summary: "The development of German fighting vehicles and tactics is fully charted, and the many myths and misconceptions that have grown up around the Panzerwaffe are exploded. Extensive research, reference to the memoirs of the leading participants, and original new conclusions all contribute to the finely measured assessment of the evolution, exploits and eventual destruction of this superlative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002