Alexander, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Caliber 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ALESummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSHenderson, Bruce B.
Summary: As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they were trained, these army recruits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HenPeiss, Kathy Lee
Summary: "Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PIEBlack, Matthew
Summary: An improbable tale of espionage and crime recounts the Allied war effort's clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. government to protect New York Harbor against sabotage and assist in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLASummary: "Run out of Germany by the Nazis, a small contingent of German Jewish intellectuals exacted the perfect revenge - returning to Europe as U.S. soldiers to defeat the enemy ... The never-before-told tale of a handful of German nationals who used their language and cultural knowledge to wage psychological warfare against the Nazis and liberate Europe"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RITChilders, Thomas
Summary: A set of thirty lectures (in three parts) examining the greatest conflict in human history, the Second World War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CHICall number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 1
Call number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 2
Call number: CD 940.54 CHI PART 3
Dezenhall, Eric.
Summary: Keeping friends close and enemies closer turned out well for the U.S. Navy during FDR's reign. This novel, based on fact, explains the significant role Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and other mobsters played in ridding New York harbor of spies and preparing the soil for the invasion of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEZLee, Bruce.
Summary: The author shows the effects on decrypted Japanese diplomatic cyphers impacted Chief of Staff George C. Marshall and others in their prosecution of the war, from the division of Europe, to the bombing of Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 LEEO'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 ODOMakos, 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 SMOWaller, Douglas C.
Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WALRaven, Margot Theis.
Summary: The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002