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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Citizens of London	Lynne Olson	In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the…	OL14909916W
An album of memories	Tom Brokaw	A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war -- in such historic episodes as Guadalcan…	OL15841373W
And justice for all	John Tateishi	Recorded interviews with twenty-five Japanese Americans, who were among the 120,000 detained in relocation camps during World War II, reveal the scope of suffering and injustice involved.	OL15860300W
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt	Rulka Langer	Rare eyewitness account of early, chaotic days of WWII - Nazi invasion of Poland, Siege of Warsaw and first months of Occupation - written by a young working mother. Rulka Langer's eye for detail and…	OL17737134W
An army in skirts	Frances DeBra Brown	"Over 150,000 women served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in World War II. Although the majority of WACs were assigned to duties in the United States, several thousand received overseas assignments.…	OL17784870W
The Frontiersman	William W. Johnstone	Seventeen-year-old Breckinridge Wallace is a pioneer whose fearless instincts have finally landed him in trouble with an Indian enemy. Now, from the bustling streets of St. Louis to the vast stillnes…	OL19647572W
Die berühmtesten Militärflugzeuge des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Phantomzeichnungen	Joachim Dressel	Includes detailed plan illustrations of the interiors of the most famous World War II military aircraft from Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and the United States.	OL19842037W
Hitler Versus Stalin	John Erickson	Hitler vs Stalin ; The Second World war on the Eastern front in Photographs illustrates every aspect of the Eastern front campaigns.	OL2041384W
Wir Kinder der Kriegskinder	Anne-Ev Ustorf	Biografische Gespräche über seelische Folgen der Kriegserlebnisse bis in die 2. und 3. Generation.	OL27959868W
The Battle of Britain	John Philip Ray	July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Royal Navy stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expec…	OL3019509W
For the duration..	Lee B. Kennett	Discusses the American response during the first six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.	OL3298724W
The Rape of Europa	Lynn H. Nicholas	A discussion on the theft and collection of great European art in World War 2.	OL3914147W
The Day of Battle	Rick Atkinson	In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army…	OL3918096W
The Lucky Bastard Club	Eugene Fletcher	Excellent story of how an amateur flyer became a first rate bombrr pilot in the USAF stationed in the Uk. Frank, sincere, no punches pulled. Very well written. And great stories of how erstwhile civi…	OL4124291W
The Victors	Stephen E. Ambrose	From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. The a…	OL478592W
In Harm's Way	Doug Stanton	On July 30, 1945, the "USS Indianapolis" was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated three hundred men were killed upon impact; close to nine hundred sailors were cast in…	OL6002988W
Prelude to War (Time-Life's World War II, Vol. 1)	Time-Life Books,Robert T. Elson	Seven chapters and picture essays describe conditions and situations contributing to the beginning of World War II.	OL6904055W
Tuxedo Park	Jennet Conant	"In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring transatlantic missio…	OL8312235W