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Summary: From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared -- the entire time it took to liberate Europe -- no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD 940.54 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Brings to life the true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5451 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: "Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERKershaw, Alex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: "On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs." Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German assaults in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: The never-before-told story of the American pilots--idealists, adventurers, romantics--who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest hour. Eight young Americans joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and risking their U.S. citizenship to fight side-by-side with England's finest pilots in the summer of 1940--over a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5449 KERKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Chronicles the experiences of the young men from Bedford, Virginia, who invaded Normandy's Omaha Beach as part of the first wave of American soldiers who hit the beaches on D-Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 KERKershaw, Alex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003