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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Japanese destroyer captain Japanese destroyer captain Roger Pineau,Tameichi Hara,Fred Saito **(from back cover)** This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japane… OL181008W
Battle in the arctic seas Battle in the arctic seas Taylor, Theodore,Theodore Taylor Describes the disastrous voyage from Iceland to Russia of the supply-laden allied convoy PQ 17 during the summer of 1942. OL1830455W
The Complete black book of Russian Jewry The Complete black book of Russian Jewry Ilʹi͡a Ėrenburg,David Patterson,Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman "The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghetto… OL18480901W
Once Once Morris Gleitzman,CORA TIEDRA GARCÍA Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World … OL2402308W
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Александр Исаевич Солженицын The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-… OL272388W
The old breed of marine The old breed of marine Abraham Felber,Franklin S. Felber,William H. Bartsch "With a reporter's mind and photographer's eye, Felber recorded in meticulous detail the fighting that wrested Guadalcanal from the enemy in the skies, off the shores, and in the muddy jungles. As th… OL5954690W
The last mission The last mission Jim B. Smith,Jim Smith,Malcolm McConnell "How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late-World War II history… OL5956856W
Wings, women, and war Wings, women, and war Reina Pennington,John Erickson The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units -- grouped into separate fighter, dive bomber, … OL6208443W