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By Chance Alone PB
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz By: Max EisenPaperback304 Pages 2020 An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie...L455.36 -
Cassino '44 HC
A detailed, month-by-month history of the protracted Battle of Cassino and the struggle for Rome. James Holland reconstructs strategy, slogging conditions, and the costs paid by soldiers on both sides—an immersive account for readers of the Italian...L938.06 -
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Catherine's War PB
Catherine's War By: Julia Billet (Author), Claire Fauvel (Illustrtor), Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator)Paperback176 Pages2020Grade Level: 3-7Reading Level: 8-12 Years This middle grade graphic novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in...L348.15 -
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Challenge For The Pacific PB
Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War By: Robert Leckie Paperback 464 Pages From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to...L562.84 -
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Chester Nez & The Unbreakable Code - Paperback
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac (Author) and Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)Paperback32 PagesMarch 7, 2024Ages: 7-10 YearsGrade: 1-5 A Junior Library Guild Selection April 20182018 Cybils Award...L267.75 -
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Chester Nimitz and the Sea
Chester Nimitz and the Seaby Jane Sutcliffe (Author) Craig Kodera (Illustrator)Hardcover32 pagesAges: 7-10yearsGrade: K-3September, 2013 Celebrate the exciting life of a World War II naval hero! When Pearl Harbor was bombed, Pres. Franklin D...L455.36 -
Children in The Holocaust PB
Children in the Holocaust (Focus Readers: Children in History: Voyager Level)By: Samantha S. BellPaperback48 Pages2018 Age Range: 9-14 YearsGrade Level: 5-6 Presents true accounts of children who lived during the Holocaust. Personal narratives,...L320.28 -
Children of Willesden Lane
Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival by Mona Golabek (Author), and Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback288 PagesNovember 1, 2003 Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the...L455.36 -
Children of Willesden Lane Young Readers Edition
The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II (Yong Readers Edition) by Emil Sher (Adapter), Mona Golabek (Author), Lee Cohen (Author)Paperback224 PagesAges 8-12March 28, 2017A young...L240.95 -
China's Good War - Autographed Copy
China's Good War: How World War II I's Shaping a New Nationalism By Rana Mitter (Author) Hardcover 336 Pages September 2020 Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience...L749.11 -
China's Muslims & Japan's Empire PB
China's Muslims & Japan's EmpireBy Kelly A. HammondPaperback314 Pages2020 In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly A. Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the center of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Revealing...L871.06 -
Churchill The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biography
Churchill The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biographyby Max ArthurPaperbacK272 PagesSeptember 2018 The life and times of the great statesman as he saw it. "This beautifully produced volume brings Churchill vividly to life... The book richly reveals both...L802.71 -
Churchill Warrior HB
Churchill Warrior: How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest HoursBy: Brian LaveryHardcover448 Pages 2017 On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, issued numerous memos to the...L883.12 -
Churchill's Citadel PB
Katherine Carter tells the extraordinary story of the remarkable but little known meetings that took place behind closed doors at Chartwell. From household names to political leaders, diplomats to spies, Carter reveals a fascinating cast of characters,...L536.03 -
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company - Hardcover
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraftby Lewis E. LehrmanHardcover472 PagesJanuary 2017 During World War II the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won...L802.71 -
Citizen Soldiers - Paperback
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyBy: Stephen Ambrose Paperback 528 Pages In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 Bestseller D-Day...L589.37 -
Citizens of London PB - Signed Copy
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour By: Lynne Olson Paperback 496 Pages 2010 In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her...L616.44 -
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Clash of the Carriers - Paperback
Clash of the Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barret Tillman (Author), Stephen Coonts (Foreword)Paperback384 pagesNovember, 2006From the national bestselling coauthor of Dragon's Jaw, here is the incredible true...L455.63 -
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Clear The Bridge PB
Clear the Bridge! The War Patrols of the USS Tang By: RAdm. Richard O'Kane, USN Paperback 480 Pages The captain of a World War II submarine recounts the eventful war patrols of his ship, whose sinkings of enemy vessels ranked second among...L562.84 -
Clementine PB
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchillby Sonia PurnellPaperback448 Pages2016 A long overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill’s closest confidante, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate...L536.03
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