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Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"When we go into combat, Doss, you're not comin' back alive. I'm gonna shoot you myself!" The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. "You're nothing but a coward!" they said. But the soft-spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. This page-turner will keep you riveted to your seat as you discover how...
4983) The great generals: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Marshall, Bradley, Pershing, Stilwell, Arnold
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Description
"The Great Generals provides a unique look at the men who led America's armies in the epic battles and conflicts of the 20th century. These are the stories of American Warriors-the lives they led, the victories they won, and the leadership they provided."--Container.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Paddington Station, present day. A young woman boards the sleeper train to Cornwall with only a beautiful emerald silk evening dress and an old, well-read diary full of sketches. Ellie Nightingale is a shy violinist who plays like her heart is broken. But when she meets fellow passenger Joe she feels like she has been given that rarest of gifts - a second chance. ... Paddington Station, 1944. Beneath the shadow of the war which rages across Europe,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 351
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"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 three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Guests of a Nation -- Windows on the World -- Degenerate Artists -- A Welfare State -- The Spirit of the Camp -- All the News That's Fit to Print -- Call Me by My Name -- Barbed Wire University -- Technically Speaking, a Spy -- If Music Be the Food of Love -- The Writing on the Wall -- The Art of War -- Catch and Release.
"Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first time. Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers,...
4993) City of spies
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Evelyn can hardly believe it when she and her new friend Tony uncover a deadly plot being carried out by Nazi spies, right in their neighborhood. Together, the two pals set out to save the day. . .and help win the war!
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"What should by now be a familiar, if always disturbing event in American history--the internment of Japanese American citizens and aliens during World War II--is given an original treatment in this creative memoir. Lily Havey was ten years old when her family of four was uprooted and sent first to Santa Anita Assembly Center in southern California and subsequently for the duration of the war to the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in southeastern...
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In 1944, as Allied forces move to retake France from its Nazi invaders, the Tessier siblings risk their lives once more and journey to Paris, where they are to deliver top-secret intelligence to Resistance workers.
4997) The Night Witches
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving...
4999) The castaway's war
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Presents the story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who was marooned on a South Pacific island and waged a one-man war against Japanese forces. By the author of The New York Times best-seller The Last Battle,"--NoveList.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner's seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He's a natural-born shooter. At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division--"Spearhead"--thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged:...