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Pub. Date
2014.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
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Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack. Flying...
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Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
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"Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters-escapees from a nearby ghetto-hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag band of men and boys into a disciplined force that accomplishes...
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Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present. A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
320 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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In a near-future world in which governments and corporations are forced to hire cutting-edge mercenary armies to protect their wealth, the globe's largest private military launches a campaign to take over the United States.
87) Death and honor
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Series
Honor bound volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 24 cm.
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Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group.
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1984
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279 p. ; 25 cm.
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Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy living in Shanghai in 1941, must learn to survive on his own when he is separated from his parents and sent to a Japanese prison camp. A fictionalized account of the author's experiences as a boy in Shanghai, China, during the Second World War, and in Lunghua C.A.C. (Civilian Assembly Centre), where he was interned from 1942 to 1945.
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Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
885 pages : plan. ; 21 cm.
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Wouk's narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
90) Tell: a novel
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Series
Deafening novels (Frances Itani) volume 2
Publisher
Back Cat/Grove/Atlantic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The international debut sensation Deafening launched the story of Grania, deaf from the age of five, and her sister Tress, who helped to create their secret language. Tell picks up from the return of the sisters' husbands from the war, and follows Tress's partner Kenan, a young shell-shocked soldier who confines himself indoors, venturing outside only at night to visit the frozen bay where he skated as a boy. Saddened by her altered marriage, Tress...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
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"Focused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn?t realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi?and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects for generations to come."--Amazon.com.
93) Grenade
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
303 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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"From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland...
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Series
Dies the fire trilogy volume 2
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
486 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Marine Corps master sniper Bob Lee Swagger travels to the remote deserts and caves of Afghanistan to track down a renegade Marine who is using extreme measures to complete a mission.
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Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
353 pages
Description
"After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances,...
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