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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 430 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a detailed account of the December 29, 1940 bombing of London's Square Mile by the German Luftwaffe and the resiliency of the British people to withstand the attacks and rise above it.
2) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
4) The day the world went nuclear: dropping the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book explores the decision to use the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945. James Scott deftly employs sharply etched portraits of individuals of all stations and nationalities to survey the global, technological, and moral backdrop of the cataclysm, including the searing experiences of Japanese trapped in a gigantic firestorm. This riveting account illuminates an historical moment...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of a Japanese pilot who bombed the continental United States during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and returned twenty years later to apologize.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
x, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II—and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace that evolved years later." -- Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each...