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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Soul survivor	Bruce Leininger	This is the story of James Leininger, who-- a little more than two weeks after his second birthday-- began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop. When James began screaming out re…	OL12017948W
Citizen 13660	Miné Okubo	"Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens--who were forced into 'protective custody' shortly after Pearl Harbor. Ci…	OL1218814W
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
Operation Mincemeat	Ben Macintyre	Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" (New York Times), "wildly improbable but entirely true" (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" (…	OL15165816W
Crossing the borders of time	Leslie Maitland	Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalists vivid depiction of a world a…	OL16342722W
Hero of the Pacific	James Brady	From New York Times bestselling author James Brady--the story of Marine legend John Basilone, one of three main characters in HBO's The Pacific. Hero of the Pacific tells the dramatic, compelling, an…	OL16960859W
Princes at war	Deborah Cadbury	A very unusual biography of the four brothers of the royal family during the Abdication crisis of 1936 as well as the war years until the death of George VI. Traces the self confidence and loyalties …	OL17112774W
Suicide squads	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…	OL17315423W
No better friend	Robert Weintraub	"Tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal who sensed danger an…	OL20002633W
No better friend	Robert Weintraub	Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for …	OL20010069W
Hitler's forgotten children	Ingrid von Oelhafen	"Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of…	OL20023278W
Fields of battle	Brian Curtis	"In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Duke University out of fear of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast. Shortly after this unforgettable …	OL20035834W
Madame Fourcade's Secret War	Lynne Olson	From Penguin/Random House: *The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author o…	OL20161094W
Teddy Bears and Doodle-Bugs	Jacqueline Hollings	A London child's view of World War Two. For Jacqueline Hollings and her younger sister and brother growing up in Colindale, a part of Hendon, the war brought changes and hardships they could never ha…	OL21026754W
Gentle Johnny Ramensky	Robert Jeffrey	"Gentle Johnny Ramensky is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than forty years in jail. A …	OL24266836W
The Bedford Boys	Alex Kershaw	On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were pa…	OL2726858W
World War II love stories	Gill Paul	The Second World War played havoc with millions of lives, and all over the world lovers were pulled apart, often just as their stories together were beginning. World War II Love Stories tells the tal…	OL28600484W
The big three	Robin Edmonds	Examines the three leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who were tempered in peacetime by personal and political adversity for their wartime rules.	OL2952173W
War in a Stringbag	Charles Lamb	Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft…	OL3670837W
The Girl Watchers Club	Harry Stein	Harry Stein gives us the conversations of a group of older men who meet every week for lunch to reflect on their lives and the state of the world.What is a well–lived life? What is honour, and does i…	OL5960678W