Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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c2010., Spectra/Ballantine Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Willis Edition: A Spectra trade pbk. ed. Genre: Science Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Trapped in the World War II era, three companions find the historical record has been altered and suspect that one of their group has altered the past and changed the outcome of the war. Meanwhile, back in their own time, their fellow researchers desperately try to find a way to bring the missing time travelers home.
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2018., Juvenile, Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.4 SHE Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents.
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By Okubo, Miné2014., University of Washington Press Call No: 940.54 OKU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text. Now available with a new introduction by Christine Hong and in a wide-format artist edition, this graphic novel can reach a new generation of readers and scholars. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh--and if he is an American too--blush." "A remarkably objective and vivid and even humorous account. In dramatic and detailed drawings and brief text, she documents the whole episode. all that she saw, objectively, yet with a warmth of understanding." -New York Times Book Review"--
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2011., Rosen Pub. Call No: 940.54 ZAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The most daring raids in historySummary Note: This book describes the Ranger assault on Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day, June 6, 1944, which was a success, and seeks to re-examine the seldom studied German perspective and the role of the Allied air forces and navies in subduing Pointe-du-Hoc.
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2014., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
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-- SAS[2016]., Crown Call No: WAR WWII NF MAC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the history of the SAS (Special Air Service), Britain's special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of World War II.
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2019., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 940.5 JAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units---fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated. From the Normandy invasion to the crossing of the Rhine River, the men of the Ghost Army---several of whom went on to become famous artists and designers after the war---played an improbable role in the Allied victory.
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-- D-day.[2004], PBS Home Video Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This video explores the Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France, focusing on the Allies array of weapons and transport vehicles that were designed to overcome the Nazi's defenses on D-Day. Also included is a look at the innovators who designed them.
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1991, c1969., Dell Call No: Science fiction FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim, survivor of the Dresden bombing, relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes at last to some understanding of the human comedy.
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-- Children's crusadec1994., Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Children's crusadec1969., Dell Call No: 813 .54 Availability:10 of 10 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.
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-- Children's crusade1991, c1969., Bantam Doubleday Dell Call No: Classic FIC VON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.
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Ã2012., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: SCIENCE FICTION Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After growing up with stories of the Montauk Project, an abandoned military base where secret experiments were conducted, Lydia Bentley finds herself transported into a strange and new reality, where she pairs up with a mysterious boy and learns that all the stories were true.
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[2020], c2015., Pre-adolescent, Penguin Workshop ; Fitzgerald Books Call No: 940.54 21421 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What was--?Summary Note: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere. D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time.
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By Norris, Kate2021., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Norris Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Winnie, who can see alternate realities, finds herself transported to one and must now find her way back to save the man she loves.