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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 657 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
2) Black sheep
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook, he reaches a new level of destruction.
3) Shiloh, 1862
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"In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, 'would be over by Christmas.' The losses in Virginia at Bull Run the previous summer, with nearly 5,000 casualties, had been shocking enough, but suddenly came word of an appalling battle in the wildernesses of Southwest Tennessee, Shiloh, that cost 24,000 lives, most of them during a single day. This was more casualties than from all previous U.S. wars combined, including the...
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The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coasts. By mid-1814, President James Madison's generals had lost control of the war in the North, losing battles in Canada. Then British troops set the White House ablaze, and a feeling of hopelessness spread across the country. Into this dire situation stepped Major General Andrew Jackson....
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Liberation trilogy volume 3
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Tells the dramatic story of the titanic battle for Western Europe from D-Day to the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich.
12) Blitzkrieg
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 359 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Description
'A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters?and clarifies?that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of the Russian front during the First World War, this book corrects widespread misperceptions of the Russian Army and the war in the east...
14) D-Day
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xviii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
15) Bull Run
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Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
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Publisher
Columbia River Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 2 hr.) : b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Archival footage, much of it formerly classified Soviet film, recounts the non-aggression pact concluded between Hitler and Stalin, the devastating Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II (Operation Barbarossa) for which Stalin was unprepared, the ultimate defeat of the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Russian counterattack which finally led Soviet forces into Berlin.
17) Trench Warfare
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This title examines the conditions, designs, soldiers, diseases, and warfare tactics of World War Is trenches. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 692 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
The first volume in a three-part history of World War II in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic draws on original testimony and new research to discuss events from the outbreak of war in 1939 to the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union.
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