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c1992., Reader's Digest Association Call No: Fic Wou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World's best reading
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1946., Reader's Press Call No: 940.5 V2153c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A combat reporter's account of the 24th Infantry Division's part in the Phillipine Islands campaign.
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-- Hollywood's pact with Hitler2013., Adult, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Call No: 791.43 U72c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time--a "collaboration" (Zusammenarbeit) that drew in a cast of characters ranging from notorious German political leaders such as Goebbels to Hollywood icons such as Louis B. Mayer.
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c2005., Del Rey/Ballantine Call No: Fic Tur Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Settling accounts Volume: [2]
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1950., Yale University Press Call No: 973 C557 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chronicles of America series Volume: v. 52
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2001, c2000., Bantam Books Call No: 940.542 B811f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Finally in paperback comes the beloved bestseller that honors not only one battle and one achievement, but the stories of six heroes and one indelible image: the photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima. "The best battle book I ever read".--Stephen E. Ambrose. Photos & maps throughout. Acclaimed by reviewers & experts upon publication--indeed, praised long before it landed in any store by booksellers & enthusiasts coast to coast--James Bradley's FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS is one of the most inspiring stories ever told of courage & valor. It is also a deeply moving tribute to a father from a son. This emotional element, coupled with the exactingly brutal detail of the battle for Iwo Jima, has raised FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS to the top of multiple bestseller lists, evoking a response from readers that made it a 700,000 copy hardcover bestseller for longer than one year. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS brings readers into the lives of the six young men--boys, really--who marched up the side of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima & raised a flag. That moment, captured for all time in an iconic photograph, is only a part of their stories; author Bradley reveals what each man's life was before, & after, that moment. Teenagers when the war struck, each soldier's odyssey is recounted, & the whole is a stunningly powerful tribute to the forces that forge heroes. This fall, the beautiful trade paperback edition will reach a new audience, backed by Bantam's steadfast commitment to bringing this book to the greatest readership possible. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima-and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flag-raisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island-an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
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By Meacham, Jon2004., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: 940.53 M479f Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2016., General, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 940.54 O66k Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. From the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan. Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC, Harry Truman ascends to the presidency after FDR dies in office, only to face the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. And in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who is considered a deity by his subjects, refuses to surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. This epic saga details the final moments of World War II.
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By Weiner, Timc2007., Doubleday Call No: 327.1273 W423l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Severn House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "It's 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about-Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone ..."--Amazon.com.
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2021., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Toi Edition: Hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city, a young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and an exotic and unpredictable Brazilian mother. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from his father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin sister. He longs for a boy he sees on a beach in Venice and writes a novel about him. He has six children, is the most successful novelist of his time, wins the Nobel Prize and is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler. His oldest daughter and son share lovers. They are leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement. This stunning combination of German propriety and Bohemian revolution goes hand in hand for decades. We see the rise of Hitler, the forced exile of a swath of German writers and artists, Mann's narrow escape to America, his sojourn at Princeton, along with fellow exile Einstein, and his final move to LA in the late 40s where he presided over an astonishing community of writers, artists and musicians, including Brecht and Shoenberg, even as his children court tragedy.
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c2010., Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Bla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It is 1940. France has fallen. Bombs are dropping on London. And President Roosevelt is promising he won't send our boys to fight in "foreign wars." But American radio gal Frankie Bard, the first woman to report from the Blitz in London, wants nothing more than to bring the war home. Frankie's radio dispatches crackle across the Atlantic ocean, imploring listeners to pay attention--as the Nazis bomb London nightly, and Jewish refugees stream across Europe. Frankie is convinced that if she can just get the right story, it will wake Americans to action and they will join the fight. Meanwhile, in Franklin, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape Cod, Iris James hears Frankie's broadcasts and knows that it is only a matter of time before the war arrives on Franklin's shores. In charge of the town's mail, Iris believes that her job is to deliver and keep people's secrets, passing along the news that letters carry. And one secret she keeps are her feelings for Harry Vale, the town mechanic, who inspects the ocean daily, searching in vain for German U-boats he is certain will come. Two single people in midlife, Iris and Harry long ago gave up hope of ever being in love, yet they find themselves unexpectedly drawn toward each other. Listening to Frankie as well are Will and Emma Fitch, the town's doctor and his new wife, both trying to escape a fragile childhood and forge a brighter future. When Will follow's Frankie's siren call into the war, Emma's worst fears are realized. Promising to return in six months, Will goes to London to offer his help, and the lives of the three women entwine. Alternating between an America still cocooned in its inability to grasp the danger at hand and a Europe being torn apart by war, The Postmistress gives us two women who find themselves unable to deliver the news, and a third woman desperately waiting for news yet afraid to hear it."--Inside jacket.
