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Cox, Kurt Hamilton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhill Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 COX

Taaffe, Stephen R.

Contents: Stopping the Japanese Offensive -- The North African Campaign -- The Long and Frustrating Italian Campaign -- The Dual Drive Offensive -- Liberation of France -- MacArthur's Return to the Philippines -- Long Bloody Winter -- Conquest of Germany -- Closing in on Japan -- Conclusions -- Biographical Afterword.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 TAA

Savage, Douglas.

Summary: Explores what it was like to be on both sides of the fighting during the conflict, including day-to-day life in the army.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.742 SAV

Ratliff, Thomas M.

Summary: Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict life and events during the four years of the Civil War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2004

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 973.73 Ratliff

Poole, Eric.

Summary: There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the incredible and harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. It is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades: Leslie Sabo Jr. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 959.7 POO

Summary: "On May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Thousand Year Reich were crushed to extinction between Russia and the Allied forces. Join The History Channel in a look back at the individuals and events surrounding this watershed day. It captures both the celebrations and the heartbreak of the end of the European war; chronicling our reentry into a post-Hitler world that could never be the same...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

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Robertson, James I.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 24

McManus, John C.

Summary: Describes the history of the American soldier during four decades of warfare, from the Battle of the Bulge to counterinsurgency combat in Iraq.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 356.114 MCM

Contents: When merit was not enough: Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate defeat in the West, 1862 / Steven E. Woodworth -- "The responsibility is great": Joseph E. Johnston and the war in Virginia / Alan Downs -- Fighting for defeat? George B. McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the change of base to the James River / Ethan S. Rafuse --Generalship on trial: Don Carlos Buell's campaign to Chattanooga /...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 CIV

McManus, John C.

Summary: "From the author of Fire and Fortitude, the continuation of the US Army's epic crusade in the Pacific War, from the battle of Saipan to the occupation of Japan"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber, Penguin Random House LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MCM

Forty, George.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arms and Armour 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 FOR

Summary: Plunge headlong into the great battles and meet the heroes that have shaped the armed forces. With a combination of government documents, combat footage and extensive interviews, this set tells the story of all five branches of the military.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BAT

Rice, Earle.

Contents: American soldiers -- Army origins and nation building -- Civil War and expansion -- Two World Wars -- Cold War conflicts -- Securing the homeland and fighting terrorism abroad -- Band of brothers-and sisters -- Today's Army -- Many ways of soldiering -- Army vision -- Timeline -- Chapter notes -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Internet addresses -- Index.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.3 RIC

Leali, Michael

Summary: "Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEA

Summary: Plunge headlong into the great battles and meet the heroes that have shaped the armed forces. With a combination of government documents, combat footage and extensive interviews, this set tells the story of all five branches of the military.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BAT

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: Through hundreds of interviews & the examination of countless documents, the author has created a rounded portrait of Eisenhower in World War II, his relationship with his "boys," & a chronicle of American participation in the European theater. From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 AMB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 AMB

Palmer, Dave R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.43 PAL

Guinn, Jeff

Summary: "From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.08 GUI

Sides, Hampton

Summary: Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 SID

Summary: Since its founding in April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has well proved its power for peace. Never before in history have Europe's rival nations formed such a working alliance. This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series presents a pictorial report of the NATO maneuvers of 1954, including Exercise Medflex Able, Exercise Keystone, and Exercise...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: Drawing on hundreds of interviews and oral histories, Ambrose recreates life on the front lines during one of the bloodiest periods of World War II: From D-Day to the surrender of Germany. "The most gripping account of the second World War that I have ever read".--Joseph Heller. Photos, maps.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 AMB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 AMB

Utley, Robert Marshall

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 UTL

Allen, Thomas B.

Summary: Lincoln knew that winning the war would take more than the same old strategies and maneuvers. It would require using technology to create new ways of waging war. Lincoln worked to make sure his soldiers and sailors had the best and latest hardware. By combining new tools with time-tested tactics, he helped revolutionize warfare.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 ALL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7301 ALL

Summary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series takes viewers to the tropical islands of Hawaii, whose strategic geographical location puts a great deal of stress on the military activities within the isles. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration examines the summer training of the National Guard in Hawaii.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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