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Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944, had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break...
9) Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak-in Holland and the Ardennes-Easy Company was as good a rifle company...
11) The first salute
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Language
English
Description
"A view of the American Revolution"--Dust jacket
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
No End Save Victory is a collection of brilliant essays about World War II by some of the most renowned historians in their field. Essays include: Caleb Carr on Poland in 1939the only war Hitler actually won; Stephen E. Ambrose on a pivotal battle to take the Rhine; John Keegan on the siege of Berlin; Thaddeus Hold on the King of Bataan; Kanji Suzuki on A Kamikaze's Story; Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar on the Voice of the Crane. Each of these...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[ 1988], 1962
Language
English
Description
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I.
This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became.
Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from the nineteenth
...17) The second front
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Language
English
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Text and photographs survey the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Germanoccupied Europe on June 6, 1944.
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Series
His The Army of the Potomac volume 1
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
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