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Trainer
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Peter Taylor |
TRAINER is a mosaic of poems forming the experience of pilot training between 1939-1945 in WWII, during which time Canada became one enormous airfield under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan… |
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The Street of the City
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Grace Livingston Hill |
From the back cover:
"In a city separated by a river, a lovely girl from the poor side of town skates over the frozen water into the world of the sophisticated rich. There, she wins the heart of a w… |
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Angel Rising
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Christopher Nicole |
Germany, 1945. With the collapse of the Third Reich and MI6's decision to retire their premier double agent-cum-assassin, it seems the war is finally over for beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka … |
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Among Stars Above the Storm
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Fred T. Martin |
A personal history of pioneering World War II flights over the North Atlantic in B-17 bombers, and flights over the Himalayas in the trecherous Hump Operation. Based on recently discovered letters an… |
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The real Tenko
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Mark Felton |
"This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation forces. While a number of memoirs have been published there is no dedicated volum… |
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Marked
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Stephen Herz |
In *Marked*, Stephen Herz's poems of the Holocaust, we see through a prism of linked poems the unfolding horror, terror, and despair of this dehumanizing bloody time of cruelty, evil, and death. Here… |
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Ostland
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Thomas, David |
Based on a horrifying true story of one of the Holocaust's worst Nazi war criminals comes a crime thriller that combines a police procedural, courtroom thriller, and a fast-paced war-time narrative. … |
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The Rough Guide to Belgium & Luxembourg
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Phil Lee |
Travel guide. |
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Decision Over Schweinfurt
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Thomas M. Coffey |
The story of the US 8th Air Force's battle for daylight bombing, in particular two daring raids on the German ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt. An interesting book about the development of the U. S… |
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Suicide squads
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Richard O'Neill |
Sixty years ago, both Allied and Axis soldiers went to war in suicidal or near-suicidal machines. The men's bravery cannot be overestimated, nor can the ingenuity and desperation that led to the deve… |
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The Fall of Berlin, 1945
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Antony Beevor |
The Red Army's invasion of Berlin in January 1945 was one of the most terrifying examples of fire and sword in history. Frenzied by terrible memories of Wehrmacht and SS brutality, the Russians wreak… |
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Taken from the Paradise Isle
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George Hoshida |
"Crafted from George Hoshida's diary and memoir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an intimate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy… |
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Paul Ham |
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombin… |
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1
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中沢 啓治 |
Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan. Spring 1945. Six-year-old Gen Nakaoka lives with his father—who is adamantly opposed to the war that is claiming the lives of so many of his fellow countrymen—his mo… |
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Hitler's monsters
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Eric Kurlander |
"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination… |
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Forgotten ally
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Rana Mitter |
"For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. China was the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, yet its drama of … |
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El nazi y el psiquiatra
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Jack El-Hai |
Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials. |
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Beware of the Dog
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Roald Dahl |
Beware of the Dog is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.
In Beware of the Dog, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells of a… |
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
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Gabriel Moshenska |
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in
history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized
nature of modern war possesses a material and ps… |
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Kaiten
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Michael Mair,Joy Waldron |
"In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a man… |
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