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Baseball stories Berlin (Germany) History Blockade, 1948-1949 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887 United States United States History 1945-1953 United States History 1953-1961 United States History 1961-1969 World politics 1945-1955 World politics 1955-1965Raven, Margot Theis.
Summary: The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943 RavTunnell, Michael O.
Summary: "World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J943.1550 TUNRose, Alexander
Summary: "James Bulloch, a sea captain turned Confederate agent, arrived in Liverpool at a crucial moment during the U.S. Civil War: a Union blockade was preventing Southern cotton exports from reaching Britain, threatening to destroy what was left of the Confederate economy-unless Bulloch could secretly arrange for the construction of a fleet of warships to break the northern grip on the South. Shortly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 ROSWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHICherny, Andrei.
Summary: Cherny tells the gripping saga of a rag-tag band of Americans--with limited resources and little hope for success--keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.155 CHEHynd, Noel
Summary: "Cochrane's country is calling him back to active duty for a special assignment in the newly divided Germany, one which will take him behind newly drawn enemy lines and into a perilous netherworld of ruthless black marketeers, petty criminals, prostitutes, ex-Nazis, and Soviet spies. Cochrane has participated in dangerous covert operations in Germany twice in the past, barely escaping with his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Cat Tales
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYNSummary: Christmas in Berlin under Soviet blockade
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1949
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Summary: Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy lifts naval blockade of Cuba after Soviet missiles withdrawn
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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Summary: Cuban Missile Crisis. Diplomacy set off by the reinstatement of the Cuban Blockade
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1962
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King, Stephen
Summary: Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy speaks to the nation on America's proposed response to the construction of offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba. "To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Kent, Alexander.
Summary: In 1796, in the sequel to Form Line of Battle! Captain Richard Bolitho uses his 74-gun ship to chase the French during blockade duty off France.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1962, President Kennedy knew that nuclear missiles had been deployed in Cuba. What he did not know was how many, or that 36 of them were capable of reaching as far as Washington, D.C. In this ABC News program, George Stephanopoulos reports on another danger that also went unrecognized at that time: Soviet submarines armed with nuclear torpedoes-and the authorization to fire them. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Wrede, Patricia.
Summary: Worried that the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet Naboo will lead to war, the Galactic Senate sends two Jedi as peace ambassadors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STAMedina, Nico
Summary: Describes the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to divide the city of Berlin to its destruction in 1989.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019