Books

20+ results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Hessian	Howard Fast	When his entire brigade is wiped out by the colonists, a sixteen-year-old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor.	OL1067130W
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
У войны не женское лицо	Светлана Алексиевич	«У войны́ не же́нское лицо́» — документально-очерковая книга белорусской писательницы, лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе 2015 года Светланы Алексиевич. В этой книге собраны рассказы женщин, у…	OL1725868W
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade	Don Lawson	Discusses the causes and events of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on the American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the key battles in which they were involved, and their reasons for join…	OL17813521W
Spain in our hearts	Adam Hochschild,Adam Hochschild	For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist u…	OL17863771W
Stories of women in World War II	Andrew Langley	"More than 75 million people fought in World War II--nearly all of them men. Who was going to produce the weapons and the food, and do countless other important jobs? The answer was women. Millions s…	OL17893176W
Growing up in revolution and the new nation, 1775 to 1800	Brandon Marie Miller	Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1775 to 1800.	OL1896292W
Operation Desert Storm	Paul J. Deegan	Describes the military campaigns of Operation Desert Storm in which over half-a-million American troops and troops from twenty-eight other nations joined forces to liberate Kuwait.	OL1931130W
Virtual war	Michael Ignatieff	This latest work (portions of which have appeared in the New Yorker and elsewhere) completes an unplanned trilogy that took shape around current events. Like the trilogy's previous two titles (Blood …	OL1962458W
Code girls	Liza Mundy	Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, the…	OL19716718W
The Flying Tigers	Samuel M. Kleiner	"The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the …	OL19746807W
The rest I will kill	Brian McGinty	236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm	OL20033637W
An eagle in the snow	Michael Morpurgo	Could one moment have saved the world from war?	OL20045114W
The coldest winter	David Halberstam	Up until now, the Korean War has been the black-hole of modern American history. This book changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both si…	OL20877044W
Remember World War II	Dorinda Makanaōnalani Stagner Nicholson	Allows readers to understand World War II, not as seen through the eyes of soldiers, but through the eyes of children who survived the bombings, the blackouts, the hunger, the fear, and the loss of l…	OL20888118W
Black Civil War Soldiers	Susan K. Baumann	Discusses the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first Civil War units made up of African American soldiers.	OL22643712W
The patrol	Ryan Flavelle	The patrol is a gritty, boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier's experience in the Canadian Forces in the twenty-first century. This book isn't merely about the guns and the glory, it is about why w…	OL24291080W
The unexpected war	Janice Stein	This book reveals tough realities about how public servants and politicians dither and avoid hard decisions in Ottawa and about how our senior public service needs a deep shake-up.	OL26196691W
The Rope catcher	Larry Stillman	It is April of 1942, and 28-year-old Jimmie Goodluck leadsd an aimless existence on the Navajo reservation, where he knows only poverty, prejudice, and lack of opportunity. Everything changes whenhe …	OL26199170W
In search of enemies	Stockwell, John	“[The United States’ goal in Angola] was not to keep out the Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as possible and to prove that, after Vietnam. we were still capable of res…	OL2749709W