Dawn, June 6, 1944. Off the Normandy coast 6,500 ships carry 150,000 Allied troops. This is D-Day, the long-awaited Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe. The Allies will storm five beaches. One is code-named Juno Beach. Here, 14,...
World War, 1939-1945
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Author:Zuehlke, MarkSummary: -
Author:Karafilly, IrenaSummary:'A very accomplished novel' Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin 'Hard to put this book down' Sofka Zinovieff. Calliope Adham - young, strong-willed, and recently widowed - is schoolmistress...
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Author:Fritzsche, PeterSummary:World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long...
- Author:Donner, RebeccaSummary:
Born in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began secret resistance meetings in her apartment, then became a spy. When the...
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Author:Polders, Claire, Presley, DanielSummary:Ever since the Germans became the unwelcome “guests” of Paris in the early days of World War II, Papa and Chantal have gone out in the evenings to fish in the Seine. Tonight Chantal is hoping for a salmon, but instead she spies...
- Author:Moorehead, CarolineSummary:
In the late summer of 1943, Italy broke with Germany and joined the Allies. This historical account explores the women of Italy that liberated their country from the fascists. Partisans gave everything to fight Mussolini's two...
- Author:Brotherton, MarcusSummary:
Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. He managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army two years later. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the...
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Author:Ravel, EdeetSummary:In 1941, life in Natt’s small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grownups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there’s a war on, of course, but he’s glad their family didn’t...
- Author:Barrett, David DeanSummary:
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.
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Author:Huber, FlorianSummary:By the end of April 1945 in Germany, the Third Reich had fallen and invasion was underway. As the Red Army advanced, horrifying stories spread about the depravity of its soldiers. For many German people, there seemed to be nothing left...
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