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2008, Greenwood Press Call No: 980 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series,Summary Note: Describes the day-to-day experiences of civilians living in Latin America over the periods of turmoil during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and focuses on the challenges and sacrifices that men, women, and children made in those times of war.
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c2011., Harper Call No: Warfare Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an account of the crash of a transport plane carrying twenty-four American servicemen and WACs on May 13, 1945, during a sightseeing trip over the Shangri-La Valley in the mountains of Dutch New Guinea, tells how survivors Margaret Hastings, John McCollom, and Kenneth Decker, injured and grieving, braved man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese troops to find refuge with a primitive tribe which had never seen white people, and discusses their daring rescue.
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Ã2016., Sourcebooks Call No: WOMEN'S STUDIES NF MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the story of radium poisoning to young American women during WWI from the paint used on watch dials, and the ensuing legal consequences that occured as a result of these work health hazards.
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-- War.2007., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 940.53 War Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Sacramento Public Library's site on Sacramento's War More... Summary Note: As companion to his PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.