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Delivered from evil
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Robert Leckie |
A Herculean undertaking: a complete history of WW II, from Versailles to Tokyo Bay; and Leckie, author of Warfare (1970) and 27 other books, pulls it off with intelligence and style. He offers little… |
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Helmet for my pillow
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Robert Leckie |
Leckie provides one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of WWII. Follow his odyssey, from basic training to the raging battles in the Pacific. |
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The world turned upside down
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Robert Leckie |
Traces the Revolutionary War from its causes to the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis. |
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The Battle for Iwo Jima
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Robert Leckie |
From the air, the Pacific island of Iwo Jima looks like a large, gray pork chop. Its strategic location, midway between the U.S. B-29 airfields on the Marianas Islands and the Japanese home islands m… |
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Helmet for My Pillow
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Robert Leckie |
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on… |
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Great American Battles
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Robert Leckie |
A review of America's major wars, from the French and Indian War to the War in Korea, with emphasis on eleven important battles: Quebec, Trenton, New Orleans, Mexico City, Chancellorsville, Appomatto… |
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The World War II reader
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Robert Leckie |
The World War II Reader presents in one extraordinary book the thrilling story of the greatest generation in its finest hour in the best essays from the world's most distinguished historians compiled… |
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