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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
5) Shiloh, 1862
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this gripping telling of the first "great and terrible" battle of the Civil War, Groom describes the dramatic events of April 6 and 7, 1862, when a bold surprise attack on Ulysses S. Grant's encamped troops and the bloody battle that ensued would alter the timbre of the war.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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
History Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
During World War II, thousands of volunteer combat aviators trained at places like Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Hancock Field in Santa Maria. Some air cadets and WASPs--young women pilots--lost their lives in training accidents. The graduates would go on to fight in both the Pacific and European theaters. They faced flak bursts and collisions that resulted in horrifying explosions and were sent on strafing runs that made them targets in a lethal...
13) Lucky bastard
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A man claiming to be President Kennedy's illegitimate son runs for president of the United States. He is Jack Fitzgerald Adams, a charming liar and womanizer whose campaign is organized and financed by a foreign secret service.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive study of the extensive Allied campaign to retake the Pacific islands from the Japanese and includes eyewitness accounts of the battles from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with a number of photographs and maps.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.
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