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Author
Publication Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience.
5) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp. Searching and singular, The Diary Keepers mines the diaries of ordinary citizens to understand the nature of resistance,...
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people--among...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed at the age of 35 by a suicide bomber while hunting high value targets on a classified mission in Syria in 2019. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the U.S. military, only a tiny fraction are selected as "operators" in elite special mission units. Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as...
Author
Publication Date
1930
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"In this soldier's story, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental loss of innocence that occurred as a result of World War I. Written after the war and as Graves was leaving England - he thought, forever - Good-bye to All That bids farewell not only to his birthplace. By the year of his departure, a way of life had ended, and England and the modern world would never be the same. Tracing Graves's upbringing through his entry...
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease. Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's--with sixty thousand new cases diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone--and it remains an enigma, with doctors, researchers, and patients hunting for a cure. In Brain Storms, award-winning journalist Jon Palfreman tells their story, a story that takes on urgency when he is diagnosed with the debilitating...
17) The hiding place
Author
Publication Date
1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Describes how Corrie Ten Boom and her family were able to save many Jewish people from the Nazis. They were punished by imprisonment in the concentration camps where all of them but Corrie perished. Also contains information on her continuing ministry of building a camp for those in need of physical and spiritual care after the war.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Night
Author
Publication Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. [This book] is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man..