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A new age now begins A new age now begins Page Smith A history of the United States from 1777 to 1783. From review: Page Smith's history of the United States is a phenomenal work, packed with details and eyewitness reports from all sides of both the s… OL1361301W
D-Day, June 6, 1944 D-Day, June 6, 1944 Sean Sheehan Describes the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, with an overview of events leading to that invasion as well as a description of its momentous effects on the war. OL14870847W
War in the Pacific War in the Pacific Sean Sheehan goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood OL14870889W
Siege of Leningrad Siege of Leningrad R. Conrad Stein Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells. OL15036465W
Erwin J.E. Rommel Erwin J.E. Rommel Earle Rice Describes the life and career of Erwin Rommel, field marshal under Hitler during World War II, who is particularly remembered for his role in the campaign in northern Africa. OL15080519W
Spoken from the Front Spoken from the Front Andy McNab Real life voices from the battlefields of AfghanistanSpoken from the Front will tell the stories of what Andy McNab describes as "modern-day heroes fighting modern-day wars". It will recount the cour… OL15173308W
Last Night Another Soldier Last Night Another Soldier Andy McNab A new Quick Read title from the author of Bravo Two ZeroAfghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have a… OL15174162W
Souin Gyokusai seyo! Souin Gyokusai seyo! Shigeru Mizuki Souin Gyokusai seyo! is a "semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II." Mizuki drew from his own experiences as a soldier in tha… OL16183562W
The Dead and Those About to Die The Dead and Those About to Die John C. McManus This book is a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa … OL17343923W
Gods of the Steppe Gods of the Steppe Andrei Gelasimov With an invasion looming at Russia's borders, Petka wages a war against boredom by secretly raising a wolf, stowing away in a shipment bound for the combat zone, and antagonizing the troops moving th… OL17857210W
Coward on the beach Coward on the beach James Delingpole An ordinary chap in extraordinary circumstances, Dick Coward is Flashman for the 20th century. Caught in all the major events in WWII, he crash lands in Dunkirk, flies Spitfires during the Battle of … OL17868740W
Eye-witness D-day Eye-witness D-day Jon E. Lewis Lewis fills this volume with a rich selection of participants' dairy selections, published memoirs, interviews, and contemporary articles from reporters on the ground to paint a stark and frequently … OL17884332W
Hitler's Last Days Hitler's Last Days Bill O'Reilly By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving Ge… OL17935034W
The Battle of Waterloo The Battle of Waterloo David Pietrusza A detailed account of the events leading up to a celebrated battle of the nineteenth century, the battle itself, and results of Napoleon's military failure. OL1803420W
The Invasion of Normandy The Invasion of Normandy David Pietrusza Comprehensive historical context of the Invasion of Normandy, explaining what brought the parties to war, the events leading to the battle, what factors made the battle important, and the effects it … OL1803425W
On campaign with the Army of the Potomac On campaign with the Army of the Potomac Theodore Ayrault Dodge "Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842-1909) was one of the nineteenth century's great military historians and author of biographies of Hannibal, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Nap… OL1827994W
Helmet for My Pillow Helmet for My Pillow 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… OL1930101W
Landscape Turned Red Landscape Turned Red Stephen W. Sears Of all the days on all the fields where American soldiers have fought, the most terrible was September 17, 1862. The Civil War battle waged on that date at Antietam Creek, Maryland, took a human toll… OL1935636W
Hundred days Hundred days Nick Lloyd "In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued-- known as the Hundred Days Campaign-- saw so… OL19704227W
Hannibal Hannibal Patrick Hunt "This authoritative biography brings to life one of the great commanders of the ancient world, Hannibal Barca of Carthage, who crossed the Alps with his war elephants to invade Italy and brought Rome… OL19710710W
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