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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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No city on earth has preserved its past as Rome has. Visitors can cross bridges that were crossed by Cicero and Julius Caesar, explore temples visited by Roman emperors, and step into churches that have hardly changed since popes celebrated mass in them sixteen centuries ago.These architectural survivals are all the more remarkable considering the many disasters that have struck the city. Rome has been afflicted by earthquakes, floods, fires and plagues,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
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English
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"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to...
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Liberation trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
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Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt & Company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The first volume in a three-volume work about the liberation of Europe opens in North Africa in 1942 and charts America's rise to world-power status by its involvement in a war on two fronts. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Long Gray Line 100,000 first printing.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Offers an account of the battle during the spring of 1945 profiles the conflict that was marked by the death of America's highest-ranking officer killed during World War II, the hara-kiri deaths of two top-ranking Japanese commanders, and the deaths of more than 250,000 soldiers, sailors, and civilians.
11) The Eagle and the Rising Sun: the Japanese-American war, 1941-1943, Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
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