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  • The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse

    The End of the Battleship Era

    The author of The First Day on the Somme recounts the sinking of two British Royal Navy ships by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser ... Leer más

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  • The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

    Learn how to provide better service to distance information users!This book is the result of the conference held in May, 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona, focusing on librarians' challenges providing service to nontraditional faculty and students. Respected authorities discuss in detail specific problemsand fresh strategies and solutionsto further promote service to distance information users. Each ... Leer más

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  • Convoy SC122 & HX229

    Climax of the Battle of the Atlantic, March 1943

    The author of The First Day on the Somme details a naval skirmish that became a turning point for the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.Winston Churchill wrote, "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. There was a period ... Leer más

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  • The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission

    The American Raids on 17 August 1943

    A detailed history of the American World War II bombing mission over Nazi Germany, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.On August 17, 1943, the entire strength of the American heavy bomber forces in England set out to raid two major industrial complexes deep in southern Germany: the Messerschmitt aircraft factory and the KGF ball bearing plant. For American commanders, it was the ... Leer más

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  • Zero!

    "This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as ... Leer más

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  • The Real Cruel Sea

    The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1943

    The renowned maritime historian's compelling study of the vital role played by merchant seamen during WWII in the Battle of the Atlantic.For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of merchant ships carrying food and supplies from America to feed the country and keep the war effort going. On top of that, they had to export ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of North Cape

    The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943

    de Angus Konstam ...
    Series series Campaign Chronicles
    "The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . . stirring" ( Work Boat).On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst's ... Leer más

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  • Chicago's Great Fire

    The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

    de Carl Smith ...
    A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination.Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in the intervening decades—and much of the ... Leer más

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  • A Wing and a Prayer

    The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

    "A compelling account of the air war against Germany" written by the navigator portrayed by Anthony Boyle in Apple TV's Masters of the Air ( Publishers Weekly).They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that ... Leer más

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  • Dunkirk

    The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation

    de John Harris ...
    How the miracle on the beaches saved a nation. A gripping account of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World WarIn May 1940 British and Allied troops on mainland Europe were in a perilous situation: cut off and surrounded, at the conclusion of the bloody Battle of France they faced complete annihilation. It would be a devastating blow, handing Europe to the Nazis.But over a few frantic ... Leer más

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  • The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921

    An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations

    "A wealth of knowledge . . . For every incident, chasing Kornilov or dealing with Admiral Kolchak, the reader has a 360-degree view." — Roads to the Great WarThe Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it ... Leer más

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  • The Girl and the Bombardier

    A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

    This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life.Susan Tate Ankeny's father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, ... Leer más

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