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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
544 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his groundbreaking book No Simple Victory. Far from being a revisionist history, No Simple Victory instead offers a clear-eyed reappraisal, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth.In detailing...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The "stunning" debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio—the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic—is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate...
Author
Series
World War II volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. As American commanders respond to the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
266 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A French aristocrat working as a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937 tries to gather information for Poland and France, wondering what move Germany will make next. Romantic sparks fly between the French aristocrat's cousin and a Franco-Polish woman who works as a lawyer for The League of Nations, all against the backdrop of Hitler's gathering war.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Soldier's Truth brings to life Ernie Pyle's years as a combat journalist in World War II. With a background in helping veterans and other survivors of trauma come to terms with their experiences through storytelling, the author brings empathy and insight to bear on Pyle's experiences. A tribute to an ordinary American hero whose impact on the war is still little understood, as well as a reckoning with that war's impact and how it is remembered,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxv, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Caddick-Adams recounts the final one hundred days of World War II in Europe, drawing on personal interviews, memoirs, and other sources. He explores the daunting challenges the Allies faced crossing the Rhine along a 300-mile front. He recounts acts of resolve and heroism, of exhausted troops pressing forward, and of first encounters as troops reached the gates of Buchenwald, Belsen, and Dachau.
9) Darkest hour
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxviii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian front line of the Allied air war as it was shaped by political strategies.
11) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn,...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 8 hr. 27 min.) : sound, black & white and color, DVD video ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the history of Hitler and the Third Reich by means of archival materials, interviews and reenactments.
14) Fury
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 1
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
17) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the causes, events, and outcome of the Second World War.