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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
469 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese- American relations and changed legal history.
4) German prisoners of war at Camp Cooke, California: personal accounts of fourteen soldiers, 1944-1946
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; cm
Description
"In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler's soldier's came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army's training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California's...
5) Rescue dawn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While renovating a cabin in the Minnesota woods, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, discovers the skeleton of a Nazi. Her investigation yields the site of a former German POW camp and an intricately designed pattern of clues to a decades-old crime.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
240 pages
Description
A former Army translator who also worked as an interrogator for a private contractor in Iraq recounts his experiences, including his part in using "enhanced interrogation" techniques, and the toll it later took on his health.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Kept for a week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed the Nazis' unspeakable brutality-the so-called Final Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and a friend made a desperate escape. When a German...
Publisher
T. Adler Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 24 cm
Description
Collection of photographs taken at the Manzanar internment camp where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Dorothea Lange was hired by the WRA to photograph the mass evacuation; she worked into the first months of the internment until she was fired by WRA staff for her "sympathetic" approach. Many of her photographs were seized by the government and largely unseen by the public for a half century. More than a year later, Manzanar...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt?namo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt?namo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children.Florence was an unlikely warrior. She...
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