Sheinkin, Steve
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 623.4 SHEBascomb, Neal
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of the Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their effort to build an atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 BASLance, Rachel
Summary: "This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEAO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: "The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ODOKershaw, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERLewis, Damien
Summary: An impossible mission in wartime Italy: the next explosive bestseller from Damien Lewis.In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allied advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LEWMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MACHartov, Steven
Summary: "A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop--a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler's military. A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British military camp in the North African desert with an incredible story to tell. He is the only survivor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 623.4 SHEGarrett, Leah
Summary: "The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit-but whose story has gone untold until now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GARSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 623.4 SHEBascomb, Neal
Summary: April 9, 1940. The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains, and in two months, the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They cripple food supplies to the Norwegian people. And at the Vemork power plant, they gain access to an essential ingredient in the weapon that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 BASDavid, Saul
Summary: In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America's most unforgiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DAVMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 MACLetts, Elizabeth
Summary: "Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList. In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LETFrost, Mark
Summary: In an attempt to regain the upper hand for Germany in the fall of 1944, famed commando Otto Skorzeny plots to have 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate and compromise Allied lines, while a smaller band of highly skilled commandos embark an a more sinister mission with history-changing potential. -- TitleSource III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROO'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 ODOBascomb, Neal.
Summary: "Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.548 BASRamsey, Edwin Price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5359 RAMO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich's main supply artery--the Brenner Pass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 940.54 ODOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ODOMiller, Russell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORSummary: 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