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D-Day, June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II
On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citize…
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- 655 hlm. : ilus. , 20 cm.
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- 940.542142 AMB D
Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy
The famous D-Day landing on 6 June 1944 marked the start of Operation Overlord, a battle for European safety. Published as part of the Pan Military Classics series, the famous Max Hastings eliminated many cultural myths in this interesting study. This report brings together the testimony of victims from both sides, as well as many sources and docume…
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- 978-1-4472-8873-2
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- xxiv, 514 hlm. : ilus. , 20 cm.
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- 940.5421 HAS O
Soldier, sailor, frogman, spy, airman, gangster, kill or die : how the Allies…
An epic battle that involved 156,000 Allied men, 7,000 ships, and 20,000 armoured vehicles fighting against the might of German war machine, D-Day was, above all, a tale of individual heroics - of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defenses were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story - Allied, Fr…
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- 978-1-250-22898-7
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- xxii, 46 hlm. : ilus. , 24 cm.
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- 940.54 MIL S
Engineers of victory : the problem solvers who turned the tide in the second …
Paul Kennedy's Winning Engineer is a detailed account of the strategic plan that led to the Allied victory in World War II. Kennedy described the important role played by ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen in implementing the grand strategy set by FDR and Churchill at the Casablanca Conference. The book presents stories of ext…
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- 9781400067619
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- xxvi, 436 p. :il. , 24 cm.
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- 940.54 KEN E
Eisenhower's Armies : The American-British Alliance during World War II
The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. This book highlights why the unprecedented level of cooperation between the very different American and British forces eventually led to victo…
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- 978-1-60598-816-0
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- 546 hlm. : ilus. , 24 cm.
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- 940.5332 BAR E
Does America need a foreign policy? : toward a diplomacy for the 21st century
In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, America's most famous representatives explain why we need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals are in the new millennium. In seven chapters, does America Need Foreign Policy? The report provides a clear analysis of how the rise of the United States as a global power in th…
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- 9780684855684
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- 296 p. , 23 cm.
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- 940.53 KIS D
Evacuees of the second world war
In 1939, nearly two million people, including many children, were evacuated from British cities to the countryside or abroad. The Channel Islands and Gibraltar also sent their younger residents to mainland Britain. Schools were relocated to large country houses, while individuals or small groups found accommodation wherever available. This evacuatio…
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- 9780747807452
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- 60 p. :il. , 20 cm.
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- 940.35 BRO E
The next great war? : the roots of World War I and the risk of U.S.-China con…
A century ago, Europe's diplomats mismanaged the crisis triggered by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the continent plunged into World War I, which killed millions, toppled dynasties, and destroyed empires. Today, as the hundredth anniversary of the Great War prompts renewed debate about the war's causes, scholars and policy exp…
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- 978-0-262-02899-8
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- xxiii, 285 hlm. : 24 cm.
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- 940.311 ROS N
The next great war? : the roots of World War I and the risk of U.S.-China con…
A century ago, Europe's diplomats mismanaged the crisis triggered by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the continent plunged into World War I, which killed millions, toppled dynasties, and destroyed empires. Today, as the hundredth anniversary of the Great War prompts renewed debate about the war's causes, scholars and policy exp…
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- 9780262028998
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- 940.3 ROS N
Paris 1919 : six month that changed the world
For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful …
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- 9780375760525
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- xii, 570 p. , 21 cm.
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- 940.3 MAC P
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