Callery, Sean.
Summary: A visual guide to the epic conflict in which millions gave their lives in the cause of freedom. Includes cutaway illustrations, maps, time lines, and infographics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J940.53 CALBoyle, David.
Summary: 900 Black and White photographs of World War II with images from every major conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BOYBeyer, Rick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plate of Peas Productions 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 940.5421 BEYMessenger, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.54 MESWilliams, Brian
Summary: Covers the key players of World War II, including Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Charles de Gaulle, along with major events such as the invasion of Poland, Battle of Britain, and Pearl Harbor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 WILLBoyle, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebo 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.54 BOYO'Donnell, Joe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanderbilt University Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.994 O'DOHaltiner, Robert E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R.E. Haltiner] 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 977.481 HAL1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.481 Halti
Makanna, Philip
Summary: Provides photographs of World War II aircraft, describes the characteristics of each plane, and shares the observations of those who flew them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomasson-Grant 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 358.4 MAKBowman, Martin W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.544 BOWSummary: Think of WWII Europe, and black-and-white newsreel images likely come to mind. But the war unfolded in color. And that's how Academy Award-winning director George Stevens captured it in this acclaimed compilation of the personal wartime diary he filmed while on the frontlines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GEOErickson, John
Summary: Provides a pictorial account of the Eastern Front campaign from Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, through the Nazis' Blitzkrieg successes, to the fall of Berlin using images from Russian, German, and British collections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carlton 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.54 ERIDavis, Michael W. R.
Summary: The label "Arsenal of Democracy" was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiter's unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroit's mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 DAVForeman, Michael
Summary: English artist and children's book illustrator Michael Foreman looks back on his own wartime childhood in the village of Pakefield on the Suffolk coast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FORSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISWatkins, Steve
Summary: Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the atrocities she has witnessed. Includes historical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KEEMakos, 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 SMOBreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BREPoole, Josephine.
Summary: A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998