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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell; a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Before being shipped to England during World War II, Lt. Walter Novak and Allie are drawn together by their love of music, prompting a correspondence that untangles secrets, commitments, and expectations between them both.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before-thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world.
Greene's father-a soldier with an infantry division in World War II-often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy,...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce - the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
12) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Pub. Date
1993,c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
From D-Day to victory in World War II with the men of Easy Company: Utah Beach, Market-Garden, the Bulge, and on to Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hailed as "the single most effective pilot at Midway" (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping turn the tide of the Second World War. This is his extraordinary memoir.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "AN INSTANT CLASSIC" -Dallas Morning News
On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a soaring account of London's desperate fight for survival during the Blitz"--
Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler's powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes...
15) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army about a woman's sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war. Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties...
19) Midway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Depicts the sequence of events that started with the attack on Pearl Harbor and culminated in the battle of Midway, showcasing the bravery and heroism, good instincts and skills of real-life military leaders and soldiers.
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