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Book cover for "The last year of the war".
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English
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Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable...
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Publisher:
Dutton
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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"From the author of the National Book Award longlisted title The Ground Breaking, a riveting new look at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, replete with evidence pointing to a much larger Confederate conspiracy. Told with a page-turning pace and eye-opening cast of characters, Ellsworth sets out to correct a pivotal moment of American history that we have gotten completely wrong--until now. Jam-packed with fresh, revelatory evidence, Ellsworth's...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date:
1980
Language:
English
Book cover for "Grant vs. Lee: Graphic History of the Civil War's Greatest Rivals During the Last Year of the War".
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Publisher:
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Grant vs. Lee tells the dramatic story of the final year of the Civil War in Virginia-a bloody and unyielding fight for both sides-through the eyes of the two greatest Civil War generals: the North's Ulysses S. Grant and the South's Robert E. Lee. The long and violent campaigns that took place from 1864-1865 (the Overland Campaign, Petersburg Campaign, and Appomattox Campaign) represent the beginning of modern warfare. By this point of the war, both...
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Publisher:
Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing
Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 1010L
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Historians have long analyzed the battles and the military strategies that brought the American Civil War to an end. Going beyond tactics and troop maneuvers, this book concentrates on the characters of the two opposing generals-Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant-showing how their different temperaments ultimately determined the course of the war. As author David Alan Johnson explains, Grant's dogged and fearless determination eventually gained the...
Book cover for "A better war".
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Publisher:
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date:
1999
Language:
English
Book cover for "Year One: The Last War".
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Publisher:
Ashley R Pollard
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Seventh Company's Lieutenant Morozova and Sergeant Rozhkov fight to survive in a frighteningly possible real future. One where autonomous war machines roam the battlefield, enemies without fear that do not stop until destroyed. A full throttle, combat-grade military action, "Year One: The Last War," collects the stories from Mission One, Regroup, and Break Out into one volume, expanding the explosive ongoing story of a future Russian civil war.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of an addictive hallucinogenic drug that causes time travel side effects.
Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader...
Book cover for "Final years of World War I".
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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An overview of the final years of World War I, emphasizing the role of the United States.
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Book cover for "A fifty-year silence".
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"A memoir by a young woman who travels to France to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious and irrevocable estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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1140L
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English
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Recounts the fall of the Roman Republic, tracing the events that marked the final century B.C. and discussing such topics as the rise of Alexandria and the contributions of such figures as Caesar, Cleopatra, Brutus, and Augustus. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland's enthralling account tells the story...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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The Last Year of the Luftwaffe is the classic story of a once all-conquering force struggling to stave off an inevitable and total defeat. This superbly written book gives a complete account of Luftwaffe operations during the last twelve months of the fighting in Europe including the dramatic Bodenplatte (or 'Baseplate') offensive over the Ardennes in December 1944. In this comprehensive examination of Hitler's air force, Dr. Alfred Price examines...
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Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin. As Grant continued his work, suffering increasing pain, the American public became aware of this race between Grant's writing and his fatal illness. Twenty years after his respectful and magnanimous demeanor toward...
Book cover for "That year of our war".
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Publisher:
Little, Brown
Pub. Date:
[1994]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Last Year of the German Army".
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Publisher:
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The year the once all-conquering German army was finally defeated. In May 1944, Germany was in crisis. The Allied landings in Normandy had forced another battle arena upon an army already fighting on the vast Eastern front, where its leadership was soon to collapse. Within twelve months, Berlin would fall. In this absorbing study, James Lucas examines the last battles fought by the German army-which had by no means given up its struggle-as the Allies...
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From beloved broadcaster Charles Osgood, a poignant memoir about one unforgettable childhood year during World War II. Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack is a gloriously funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving look at World War II from the perspective of a child far away from the fighting, but very conscious of the reverberations. With a sharp eye for details, Osgood captures the texture of life in a bygone era.
Book cover for "His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes".
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Series:
His Last Bow volume 8
Publisher:
Ignatius Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes", later titled "His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes", is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in September 1917 in Strand Magazine, and, amongst six other stories, was collected in an anthology titled His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. The narration is in the third person, instead of the first person narration...
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A twelve track album from pop artist Nick Jonas that includes songs such as Voodoo; Close; Touch; and more.