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War's end: an eyewitness account of America's last atomic mission

War's end: an eyewitness account of America's last atomic mission

Charles W. Sweeney, James A. Antonucci, Marion K. Antonucci - History - 1997 - 290 pages
The author recounts his selection as the leader of the atomic mission to Nagasaki
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The longest battle: the war at sea, 1939-45

The longest battle: the war at sea, 1939-45

Richard Hough, Richard Alexander Hough - History - 1986 - 371 pages
A lively one-volume history of the strategies and actions in which the navies of the Allied and Axis powers were involved in World War II, covering every category of naval ...
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Typewriter Battalion: Dramatic Frontline Dispatches from World War II

Typewriter Battalion: Dramatic Frontline Dispatches from World War II

Jack Stenbuck - History - 1996 - 416 pages
A collection of reports from foreign correspondents during World War II, such as Walter Cronkite and Ernie Pyle, covering events from the Normandy invasion on D-Day and the ...
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Spudding in: Recollections of pioneer days in the California oil fields
Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner - Fiction - 2000 - 592 pages
Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out ...
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The Struggle for Europe

The Struggle for Europe

Chester Wilmot - History - 1998 - 766 pages
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The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific

The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific

John N. Bradley - History - 2002 - 352 pages
Beginning with a look at the readiness of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and the United States armed forces, this book gives a detailed account of the Allies’ brutal five ...
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Wings against the sky

Wings against the sky

Richard Hough - 1979 - 297 pages
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Citizen Soldiers

Citizen Soldiers

Stephen E. Ambrose - History - 2011
In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble ...
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The Battle of the Bulge