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2010., Dan Dalton Productions Call No: WWII Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: D-Day: 70th Anniversary Collection/DVD.Summary Note: The Greatest Amphibious Assault In History!A Tribute To The Men & The Battle That Liberated The World. On the morning of June 6th 1944, 156,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and changed the course of modern history. With nothing but their strength to triumph, courage and honor, these brave soldiers engaged in an epic twelve-hour battle that came to be the greatest military operation of all time. Using rare archival video footage, insightful narration and previously classified information, you can witness the D-Day Invasion like never before!.
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2014., Pegasus Books Call No: Historical Fic Speller Edition: First Pegasus Books paperback edition. Availability:3 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the lives of four very different men, Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry, as their fates converge on the most terrible and destructive day of World War I, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. On July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, and there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar across the battlefield, singing as they fly over the trenches. What follows is a day of catastrophe in which Allied casualties number almost one hundred thousand. A horror that would have been unimaginable in pre-war Europe and England becomes a day of reckoning, where their lives will change forever, for Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry. Here the author captures the dangerously romantic atmosphere of war-torn Europe. -- From book jacket.
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Ã2013., Harper Perennial Call No: B Zuckoff Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Details the efforts of a crashed B-17 to survive in Greenland during the winter of 1942 and 1943. Also chronicles the author's expedition to the region in 2012 to help recover the remains of the crewmen who did not survive.
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2014., Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books Call No: Mystery FIC Bohjalian Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)
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Ã2013., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: Historical FIC Wein Edition: First Hyperion paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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By Fleischer, Richard Williams, Elmo, 1913- Masuda, Toshio, 1927- Fukasuka, Kinji Forrester, Larry Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996 Kikushima, Ryuzo, 1914- Balsam, Martin, 1919-1996 Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994 Marshall, E. G., 1914-1998 Whitmore, James Robards, Jason Yamamura, So, 1910-2000 Mihashi, Tatsuya, 1923-2004 Tamura, Takahiro Tono, Eijiro, 1907-1994 Senda, Koreya, 1904-c2001., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: WWII Edition: Special ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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c2010., Random House Call No: WWII NF HIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.