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81) Dunkirk
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
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English
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With the threat of Mussolinis army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Asters household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassies army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
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Series
Sunrise at Normandy volume 3
Language
English
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When an Army Ranger and a librarian are bound together by a marriage of convenience, neither suspects it might lead to love. Will D-day--and a foreboding dream--tear them apart?
85) Across the Rhine
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
The story of the allies invading the Third Reich.
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Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order.
87) Gallipoli
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey.
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Language
English
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Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.
Author
Publisher
Quill
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When we think of the war in Afghanistan, chances are we're thinking of a small, remote corner of the country where American military action has been concentrated: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan provinces. The rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made the region a natural hiding spot for targets in the American war on terror, from Osama bin Laden to the Islamic State, and it has been the site of constant U.S. military...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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D-Day was the culmination of four years of planning and preparation that began in the summer of 1940 when Britain stood alone and under imminent threat of German cross-Channel invasion. Charles Messengers vivid study of the landings and subsequent campaign chronicles the gradual evolution of the invasion plan, encompassing the intelligence efforts, the Ango-US strategic debate over where the Allies should attack, and the elaborate deception put in...
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Publisher
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Describes the operation involving Resistance fighters, Allied commanders, and French citizens that resulted in the liberation of Paris in 1944 from German occupation and ultimately helped shape the outcome of World War II.
96) Sleeping dogs
Author
Series
Dev Conrad mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
97) Pleasantville
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Series
Language
English
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"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter, who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"-- Provided by publisher.
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