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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Great Britain Social aspects War and society World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Great Britain World War, 1939-1945 United StatesLanier, Wendy
Summary: "What did pioneers eat on the wide-open frontier as they made their way west? What kinds of clothes did people wear during the Civil War? What was school like in colonial America? Daily Life in US History answers all of these questions and more. Take a trip to the past to learn what everyday life was like in the different eras of US history." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 LANKessler, Liz
Summary: Torn apart by the historical events leading up to World War II, three friends from 1936 Vienna are scattered to different countries as darkness spreads throughout Europe, impacting their families and their bonds with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 LARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP CHURCHILL LARSebba, Anne
Summary: "Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 SEBContents: Disc One -Episode one: A necessary war -- Disc Two -Episode two and three: When things get tough; Deadly calling -- Disc three -Episode four: Pride of our nation -- Disc four -Episode five: Fubar -- Disc six-Episode seven: World without war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 940.53 WarLarson, Erik
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCHILL LARAllport, Alan
Summary: "Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALLSummary: Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAR RATED NRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARLarson, Erik
Summary: In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art of being fearless.' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home Chequers; his wartime retreat Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARDelmont, Matthew F.
Summary: "The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DELStargardt, Nicholas
Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: A profound look at American and Japanese perceptions - past and present - of key moments in their shared history. An incisive investigation of the problems of public history and its role in a modern democracy, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in postwar U.S.-Japan relations, as well as the broader discipline of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5352 DOWFeigel, Lara.
Summary: A portrait of World War II-era London by five literary volunteers documents their experiences as ambulance drivers, firefighters, and other civilian aids through five years of war, beginning with a single night in September 1940.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5342 FEIMilton, Giles.
Summary: The biography of Wolfram Aichele, the author's father-in-law, which tells of his childhood in Germany as Hitler came to power, and his experiences in Hitler's army on the Russian front and on the beaches of Normandy through the fall of Hitler's regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5413 AICHELE, WOLFRAM MILChand, Meira
Summary: Tells the tumultous history of Singapore as it journeys along the long, hard path to independence through the story of three families whose lives are intertwined and relationships are tested over time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Uk 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAKochanski, Halik.
Contents: Definitions of Poland and the Polish -- Guide to Polish Pronunciation -- The Rebirth of Poland -- Polish Foreign Policy, 1920-1939 -- The September 1939 Campaign -- The German and Soviet Occupation of Poland to June 1941 -- Exile in the Soviet Union -- Escape from the Soviet Union -- Poland's Contribution to the Allied War Effort, 1940-1943 -- Polish Non-combatants Outside Poland, 1939-1945 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 KOCSpivack, Kathleen
Summary: "A strange, haunting, exhilarating debut novel about survival and love in all its forms: about sexual awakenings and dark secrets, about European refugee intellectuals who've fled Hitler's armies with dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) "can-do, will-do" world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: As companion to his PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5373 WARMawer, Simon.
Summary: Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of promise. But as war becomes inevitable, their lives are transformed in profound ways.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAWStafford, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 STACooke, Tim
Summary: "Approaches the topic of World War II from the perspective of those fighting in it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 COOBest, Nicholas
Summary: "In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini's capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAWSummary: Danger is your companion - post WWII safety awareness film (part 1)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946