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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Journey out of darkness	Hal LaCroix,Jorg Meyer,Hal LaCroix	viii, 187 p. : 25 cm	OL12276195W
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 coldest winter	Paula Fox	The author describes her movements across Europe's scrambled post-war borders--trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist takeover, and n…	OL16028541W
Helmet for my pillow	Robert Leckie	Leckie provides one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of WWII. Follow his odyssey, from basic training to the raging battles in the Pacific.	OL16992762W
Japanese eyes, American heart	Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board	Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, set Hawaii on a new course of history that would affect every living soul in these Islands. How Hawaii's people, particularly those of Japanese anc…	OL18391468W
Home front to battlefront	Franklin L. Lavin	"Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his freshman year of college, he joined the reserves, a decision that would take him with the US Army from tra…	OL19671021W
An Internment Odyssey =	Suikei Furuya	"Haisho Tenten is a memoir of Suikei Furuya, who was arrested and interned following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Mr. Furuya was a US citizen and was never found guilty of any crime"--Provide…	OL20142709W
Dispatches from the Pacific	Ray E. Boomhower	1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages)	OL21149592W
War As I Knew It	George S. Patton	Adored by many, loathed by some, General George S. Patton, Jr., was one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. War As I Knew It is the personal and candid account of his celebrated, r…	OL3146574W
Aleutian Echoes	Charles C. Bradley	When the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, Charles Bradley enlisted in the army and found himself a member of the training command with the new 10th Mountain Infantry Division. He helped develop ski…	OL3481981W
Pearl Harbor survivors	Harry Spiller	"On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It was a major victory for the Japanese Navy, which in less than two hours destroyed 188 American …	OL3507070W
Plowing my own furrow	Howard W. Moore	Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition, or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong. This man lived until he was 104 years old, was on the cover LIFE magazine, was acti…	OL3909940W
Evidence not seen	Darlene Deibler Rose	The true story of one woman's triumph of faith. Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinki…	OL4467504W
War stories	Elizabeth Mullener	"Elizabeth Mullener over the course of twelve years found eyewitnesses to virtually every major event of World War II, and she found them all in one American city - New Orleans. Some are natives of t…	OL5728240W
The adventures of M. James	James, Michael	"A World War II diary written during the height of Naval operations in the Pacific by a young sailor aboard the USS Monterey, CVL-26, from 1943 to 1946"--Provided by publisher.	OL5816828W
The Hostile Sky	James W. Vernon	"In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program. By the end of the war he was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS…	OL5952960W
The Japanese-American Internment	Rachael Hanel	"Describes the events surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans in relocation centers during World War II. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of Japanese i…	OL5958424W
Serenade to the Big Bird	Bert Stiles	Without the Allies’ mastery of the skies—so hard fought for and won—there could have been no invasion, while the subsequent land battle was shaped by what happened in the air above. Air power was abs…	OL6216780W
Under the Red Sea sun	Edward Ellsberg	Thrilling true story of raising sunken ships on a shoestring budget in the worst working conditions on earth.	OL6440912W