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Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
370, 16 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Description
As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route- the Burma Road-from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 816 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
"A major new biography of one of Americas most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family. As a soldier,...
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1230 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
An anthology of excerpts from the four-volume classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" features first-hand recollections by the Civil War's commanders and subordinates on both sides, with commentary by such leading scholars as James McPherson and Joan Waugh.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world?s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons? dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
Author
Publisher
Osprey
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
392 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"There are many accounts of 1914 from the British point of view. The achievements of the British Expeditionary Force were the stuff of legend, but in reality there were only four divisions in the field; the French and Germans had more than 60 each. The real story of the battle can only be told by an author with the skill to mine the extensive German and French archives. Ian Senior does this with consummate skill, weaving together strategic analysis...
50) The crossing
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is Dec. 17, 1776. Hounded by superior British forces, his army decimated by disease, desertion and lack of funds, General George Washington faces the unthinkable: he is losing the war for American Independence. A week later, on Christmas Eve, Washington will make one of the most courageous decisions in military history. Staking everything on a risky surprise attack against a garrison of battle-hardened Hessian mercenaries, Washington sets out across...
52) Irresistible
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In March of 1944, recently appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Eisenhower, meets with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They must come up with a brilliant strategy to put an end to World War II.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Sometimes, a woman has to rescue herself. Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone's business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother's sorries, and it seems to Jenny...
Publisher
Showbox/Mediaplex
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of about three million soldiers who fought a war, no longer remembering the reason, and died, wishing for the end of it, while negotiations for peace remained unresolved for 25 months following June 1951. It is estimated that the Korean War left four million dead. The war continued for 37 months, and the armistice negotiations continued for two years and two months during the war. The entire military force was concentrated in a battle for...
57) Painting home
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Formats
Description
As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely die without...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fred Bolton, a New York advertising executive, acquires a horse for his daughter as part of a haphazard promotional campaign for a blustery client. With help from an attractive riding school instructor, Fred is hopeful that the horse will bring fame to the client's product, save Fred's own job, and pay for his daughter's expensive equestrian pursuits.
Author
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Unique among World War I campaigns, the fighting at Gallipoli brought together a modern amphibious assault and multi-national combined operations. It took place on a landscape littered with classical and romantic sites - just across the Dardanelles from the ruins of Homer's Troy. The campaign became, perhaps, the greatest 'what if' of the war. The concept behind it was grand strategy of the highest order, had it been successful it might have led...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 671 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., plans ; 24 cm.
Description
Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of America.
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