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1) Trajectory
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah's life changes for ever. Her best friend's family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to run the dangerous errands around the city. It's not long before hundreds of persecuted Jews seek sanctuary at the mosque. Can Safiyyah find the courage to enter the treacherous...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Emil, a Jewish man in 1930s Germany, loves Deta, a Lutheran, but Nazi racial purity laws forbid their marriage. Desperate to find a place where their love can survive, they must separate to get away. Deta leaves for England, but Emil has to overcome red tape, resistance from his aging parents, and his own ambivalence before he can embark for America. With only telegrams and letters from Deta to sustain him, he does all he can to bring her and his...
Author
Publisher
Saddleback Education Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of World War II, a unique team of soldiers fought to help the U.S. win using an unusual weapon--language. Native Americans from the Navajo tribe were recruited by the U.S. military to create a code that no enemy could break. These men were called Navajo code talkers. This is their story of bravery"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
"From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices paid by him, and other soldiers, for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice"--
11) Reveille
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In late 1943, an American squad engaged in a skirmish with German soldiers along the Winter Line in central Italy. As artillery shells rain down, the Americans must honor the rules of war and protect their wounded prisoners. Huddled together in a cave and made to see the enemy as human, the soldiers wrestle with unimaginable moral questions outside the boundaries of nationality and allegiance.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Recalls the experiences of a young army half-track driver & technician during the largest land battle ever fought by U.S. forces. As part of the 11th Armored Division, 63rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 'hard' describes the intense combat along the Belgium/German border, as they endure heavy artillery and the worst weather conditions ever recorded. Follow Howard F. Tucker, Jr.'s personal journey from training in the swamps of Louisiana to the rebuilding...
14) WW2 in Europe
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Series
Publisher
Rolling Wheel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Looks at Europe during World War Two, including several battles such as D-Day, Operation Torch, and the Battle of Kursk.
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces his family's journey through war, Nazi occupation, and everyday marital strife. 1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938. A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi...
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