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Oxford history of the United States volume 6
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
904 p. : ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm.
Description
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book...
22) 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...
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"Eric Larson 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 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade...
25) D-Day
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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.
27) 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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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.
29) 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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LP, an imprint of Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Description
In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard against Nazi interlopers-an unlikely scenario given the cruel climate. But one day, a footprint was spotted on desolate Sabine Island, along with other obvious signs of the enemy. Not expecting to find the trouble they did,...
32) War at the end of the world: Douglas MacArthur and the forgotten fight for New Guinea, 1942-1945
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Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
37) Allied
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
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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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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxi, [21], 688 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a focus to its ominous end--the Allies' incomplete victory and its tragic ramifications. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches events from a truly...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 672 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
"Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the...
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