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2021., Little, Brown and company Call No: 940.54 G542b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia", asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, "Was it worth it?" Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war"--
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c2011., HarperCollins Call No: 940.54 Z94l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
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2010., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Ind Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of the Reykjavik Murder Mystery series comes an international thriller sweeping from modern Iceland to America and Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. In 1999, mid-winter, the U.S. Army is secretly trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. The plane had crashed in a blizzard in 1945 and was carrying both German and American officers. A young Icelander pursues this mystery to a remote island off Argentina in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon."--Publisher.
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2000, p1995., HBO Pictures Call No: BLK DVD Fic Tuskegee Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to prove to America that courage knows no color. Their success could earn them respect, save lives and help win a terrible war. Their failure could destroy more hopes and dreams than their own.
![The Tuskegee airmen [DVD] (1995). Directed by Robert Markowitz.](/Library/images/~imageCT77695.JPG "The Tuskegee airmen [DVD] (1995). Directed by Robert Markowitz.")
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-- World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemptionc2010., General, Random House Call No: 940.54 H651u Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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-- World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption2010., Adult, Random House Audio Call No: CD Fic Hil Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
![Unbroken [CD] : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption](/Library/images/~imageCT76440.JPG "Unbroken [CD] : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption")