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41) The commandos
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Pub. Date
1998
Description
Features the exploits of the Commandos in World War II, including audacious assaults on South Vagsoy, Bordeaux, islands in the Aegean, and other farflung strategic targets.
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Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes some of the weapons used by both the Allied and Axis forces during World War II, including automatic weapons, radar, early computers, tanks, aircraft carriers, bombers and fighter planes, and the atomic bomb.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Billy Boyle, a young Boston Irish cop, has just made detective (with a lot of help from family and friends) when war is declared. His mother wangles a job for him on the staff of an obscure general married to her distant cousin Mamie. But "Uncle Ike" turns out to be General Dwight D. Eisenhower; his headquarters are in London which is undergoing the Blitz; and he has a special assignment for Billy: to be his personal investigator, to catch a spy who...
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World War II novels volume 1
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As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germanys ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war. Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa and...
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
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Firmly straddling the ground between war novel and military history, the conclusion to Shaara's WWII European theater series contains the usual mix of real life military leaders and fictional soldiers in combat, recapitulating the last five months of the war, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of concentration camps. Shaara's real-life figures (generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) mostly...