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Italy Military campaigns Montagu, Ewen 1901-1985 Sicily (Italy) History, Military 20th century Soldiers United States Biography United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th History World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Italy World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Italy Sicily World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western Front World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories United StatesBerglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "During World War II, a group of homesick Polish soldiers took in an orphaned bear cub and named him Wojtek. As the bear cub grew, he became friends with the soldiers, lifting their spirits as he learned to imitate them around camp. Later, Wojtek was helpful by carrying many heavy shells during a large battle in Italy. Learn how Wojtek showed his courage in battle and earned the rank of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024
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Summary: "Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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Summary: "The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ODOMacintyre, Ben
Summary: Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning an attack in southern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: CD MACSummary: After landing with Allied troops in Anzio Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANZSmyth, Denis
Summary: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SMYDavid, Saul
Summary: In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America's most unforgiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DAVRoberts, Mary Louise
Summary: "This is an unflinching history of the Western Front in World War II told through the physical misery of the soldiers who fought there. Roberts describes the experiences not only of American and British troops, but of French and German soldiers, too. Though she ranges across the Western Front, her primary cases are the winter campaigns of 43-44 in Italy and 44-45 in Belgium, both crucial to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ROBGarland, Joseph E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Protean Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 GARKershaw, Alex
Summary: "The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KERSummary: Chronicles the remarkable story of the legendary alpine fighting force known as the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Their claim to fame began during World War II when the U.S. Army advanced on the Germans who were entrenched in Italy's heavily fortified mountaintops. After losing 15,000 soldiers attempting to capture this critical high ground, the U.S. Army brass called up the 10th, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LASMacintyre, Ben
Summary: From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars MacIntyrePyle, Ernie
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and company 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PYLWallace, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1978
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORLewis, Damien
Summary: An impossible mission in wartime Italy: the next explosive bestseller from Damien Lewis.In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allied advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2020
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Summary: From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared -- the entire time it took to liberate Europe -- no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD 940.54 KERIsserman, Maurice
Summary: "The epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ISSShelton, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5412 SHEHolland, James
Summary: "On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 HOLBlack, Matthew
Summary: An improbable tale of espionage and crime recounts the Allied war effort's clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. government to protect New York Harbor against sabotage and assist in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Summary: "Set against the heroism and heartbreak of World War II, former Army officer Ed Ruggero brilliantly captures, with grace and authenticity, the evocative and timeless stories of ordinary people swept up in extraordinary times. Sicily, 1943. Eddie Harkins, former Philadelphia beat cop turned Military Police lieutenant, reluctantly finds himself first at the scene of a murder at the US Army's 11th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGJenkins, McKay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JENSullivan, James
Summary: Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SULCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War SullivanAtkinson, Rick.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2007