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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 p.
Language
English
Description
Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of General George Patton's death, a gripping firsthand account of World War II written by a soldier with the American Third Army who served under the legendary warrior and participated in many of the most consequential events of the conflict--including the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau.Following in the footsteps of the bestsellers All the Gallant Men, Every Man a Hero, Don't...
Author
Language
English
Description
A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience with the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body. He details his resolve to re-enter service after a grueling recovery and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the great cathedral, where he took a shot immortalized by...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
A detailed look at the flagraising at Iwo Jima during World War II describes how the act became a symbol of the battle, the war, and the ideals of the United States; and examines the lives of the men who raised the flag.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the recollections of twelve men, an oral history of the Second World War provides a soldier's view of combat in both the European and Pacific theaters, from the D-Day invasion at Normandy to being bombed by Japanese pilots over Midway.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command across France: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author offers a portrait of her father, a spy behind enemy lines during World War II, his wartime activities and exploits, the effects of these experiences on his life, and her own relationship with the troubled man.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of Fritz Kolbe, a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II, describes his harrowing espionage work relaying valuable information on high-level Axis meetings and munitions factories to the Allies.
Author
Publisher
Amereon House
Pub. Date
c1950
Physical Desc
xvii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early in 1941, the famed British Eighth Army was on route to victory in North Africa. A few months later, this same army was on the verge of total defeat as the Germans had won victory after victory threatening to overrun Egypt and the Middle East. This classic biography is about the man who masterminded this turnabout. The author, captured by Rommel, came to know his family and is able to relate personal anecdotes about the man which serves to sort...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Reccounts the true story of how the Downs family survived the sinking of the Heredia, a merchant freighter located in the Gulf of Mexico that was torpedoed by German U-boats in in 1942.