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Marine Flasher (Ship) National socialism Social aspects Prisoners of war United States Biography Soldiers United States Biography United States. Army Biography World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western Front World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German Wrocław (Poland) BiographySummary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORLowry, Lois
Summary: "From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner KenardPak"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word LowryTakiff, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 TAKTyler, Leslie J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crystal Pub. 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 940.544 TYLNez, Chester.
Summary: A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of twenty-nine top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 NEZ, CHESTER NezMaynard, Mary McKay.
Summary: In this luminous, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines, Maynard recounts the two years her family spent hiding in the jungles of the Philippines after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5481 MAYMarshall, Charles F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 MARBurgett, Donald R. (Donald Robert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 BURGEWinters, Richard D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 WINPatton, George S. (George Smith)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.542 PATSpinelli, Angelo M.
Contents: Angelo Spinelli's narrative and photographs -- North Africa -- Captured! -- Stalag IIIB-Fürstenberg/Oder -- Stalag IIIA-Luckenwalde -- Liberation and home -- Civilian Spinelli and his photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 SPIDole, Robert J.
Summary: The former U.S. Senate Republican leader recounts his experiences of serving with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, during which he suffered a dangerous wound that resulted in a three-year struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOLE, BOB DOLMakos, Adam.
Summary: Based on interviews with veterans and unpublished memoirs, tells the true stories of twenty marines during World War II, from the attacks on Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal, Okinawa, and their return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MAKGrady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRARasmussen, Randall L.
Summary: It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell's Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American flyers were sent to the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17B. In Stalag the American prisoners of war had to deal with the harsh rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sunstone Press 2003
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 940.5472 RAS1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 RAS
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 940.5472 RASManchester, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5483 MANCasey, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 CASMurphy, Audie
Summary: America's most decorated soldier of World War II describes his experiences fighting his way across Europe, portraying the brutalities of war from the perspective of the infantry soldier in campaigns in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MURPHY, AUDIE MURParker, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Horizon Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 PARKER, KEN PAR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 940.5481 PAR
Suberman, Stella.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 SUBBrokaw, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5481 BROIrish, Aarol W
Summary: "On May 26, 2006, one month and one day after her father's death, Teresa Irish raised the lid on the Army trunk that had resided in the family home her entire life. There, nestled in row after row, were her dad's nearly 1,000 handwritten letters from World War II. Carefully tucked away and visited only by him over the course of six decades, the letters were postmarked from November, 1942 to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [ATLH Publications] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 IRISH, AAROL W IRITurke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld
Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TURIsenberg, Sheila.
Summary: An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone she met with her beauty and intelligence. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago's high society to a Viennese medical school, and then to the Austrian underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011