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Hardcover:

9781472804853 | Osprey Pub Co, April 21, 2015, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781472819383 | Osprey Pub Co, April 18, 2017, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving accounts of the surviving military personnel and civilians who were on Oahu at the time of the attack, at dawn on December 7, 1941...read more

Hardcover:

9780819180582 | Madison Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gathers first-person accounts of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and military activities on the base before and after the attack

Paperback:

9781493023431 | Lyons Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II.

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Moving past the romance and myth of military aviation, the author reveals the dangerous and often fatal business of flying bombers and fighter planes over enemy territory during World War II--a conflict that saw 120,000 casualties among American aviators, 40,000 of them fatal.

Hardcover:

9780891416784 | Presidio Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Moving past the romance and myth of military aviation, the author reveals the dangerous and often fatal business of flying bombers and fighter planes over enemy territory during World War II--a conflict that saw 120,000 casualties among American aviators, 40,000 of them fatal.

Paperback:

9780451475640 | New Amer Library, August 2, 2016, cover price $16.00
9780891417798 | Presidio Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: “These two hard-to-come-by texts reveal that the H.D. we know—the poet of exquisite, erudite, allusive imagist or modernist poems—chose to live through the experience of WWII London and to share with her fellow Londoners the hardships and anxieties of a city under attack...read more
By Annette Debo (editor)

Hardcover:

9780813060101 | Univ Pr of Florida, September 9, 2014, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: “These two hard-to-come-by texts reveal that the H.

Paperback:

9780813062044 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Florida, May 31, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: “These two hard-to-come-by texts reveal that the H.

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By Bradley D. Cook (other contributor)

Hardcover:

9780253019561 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 2, 2016, cover price $45.00

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Hardcover:

9780306707704, titled "Admiral Halsey's Story" | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $54.50 | also contains Admiral Halsey''s Story | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Paperback:

9783540488460 | Springer Verlag, January 12, 2016, cover price $59.95

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Hardcover:

9781421417646 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 5, 2015, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9781421417653 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 25, 2015, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers...read more
By John K. Hurley (foreword by)

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9781680400014 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In 1942, Colonel Curtis E.

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Gathers testimony of pilots and others who flew daylight bombing missions over Nazi-occupied Europe

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9781556115103 | Donald I Fine, June 1, 1997, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Gathers testimony of pilots and others who flew daylight bombing missions over Nazi-occupied Europe

Paperback:

9780425281574 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, September 1, 2015), cover price $17.00
9780440226482 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, November 1, 1998), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The harrowing tale of the aerial counterattack mounted from British soil follows the Army Air Corps and newly created Eighth Air Force airborne on the brand new B-17 Flying Fortress and the P-47 Thunderbolt to drop bombs into the heart of the German war machine.
9780435289706, titled "Photographic Slides in Language Teaching" | Heinemann, December 1, 1981, cover price $8.00 | also contains Photographic Slides in Language Teaching

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Product Description: Carnage and Courage is the story of an American woman’s journey from upper-crust ingénue to a career in the US diplomatic corps. At President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's behest, Page Wilson left the US to serve in London with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy as he took up his post just before World War II began and the Blitz commenced...read more

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9781631580611, titled "Carnage & Courage: A Memoir of FDR, the Kennedys, and World War II" | Yucca Pub, November 3, 2015, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Carnage and Courage is the story of an American woman’s journey from upper-crust ingénue to a career in the US diplomatic corps.

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By Craig Borlase (contributor), Betty Whipps and Ray Whipps

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9781496405487, titled "Til We Meet Again: A Memoir of Love and War" | Tyndale House Pub, August 18, 2015, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, a mere 2000 or so RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler's Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England - the prerequisite for a German invasion.What was it like to fly a Spitfire? To shoot down a German bomber over London? Or to be shot down by the closely matched Messerschmittt 109? This short illustrated account of daily life in August and September 1940 is the ideal introduction to the story of the Battle of Britain...read more
By Hannah Holman (editor)

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9781445644684 | Amberley Pub Plc, August 1, 2015, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Summer 1940, Britain is on the brink, a mere 2000 or so RAF fighter pilots stand between Hitler's Luftwaffe and air supremacy over the skies of southern England - the prerequisite for a German invasion.

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Product Description: This is the personal memoir of Charles S. McCandless, who graduated from Stanford and soon after joined the the Navy. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor, when on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941 he was rendered unconscious as a bomb exploded only a few feet away from him and his shipmate...read more

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9781555718107 | Reprint edition (Hellgate Pr, April 1, 2015), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This is the personal memoir of Charles S.

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By Traise Yamamoto (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780295994758 | New edition (Univ of Washington Pr, March 11, 2015), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone. From training camp scenes in See Here, Private Hargrove to images of brutal combat in Saving Private Ryan, filmmakers have been tasked with replicating pivotal moments in the war...read more

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9781442245556 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 22, 2015, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone.

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By Robert Fass (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781491575604 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, December 2, 2014), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe...read more

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9781589799639 | 2 edition (Taylor Pub, November 6, 2014), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: From the bomb group that brought forth the bomber Memphis Belle and the movie Twelve O’clock High comes a final epic from the air war in Europe...In February 1945, the Allies launched Operation Thunderclap, a series of maximum efforts against cities in eastern Germany, partly to pave the way for the Red Army that would soon be overrunning that territory...read more

Hardcover:

9781612002651 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 19, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: From the bomb group that brought forth the bomber Memphis Belle and the movie Twelve O’clock High comes a final epic from the air war in Europe.

Hardcover:

9780226181127 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2014, cover price $40.00

Paperback:

9780226180939 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 28, 2014, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Rielly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories...read more

Hardcover:

9780314030276, titled "Hornbook on Criminal Law" | 2nd edition (West Group, August 1, 1986), cover price $50.05 | also contains Hornbook on Criminal Law | About this edition: This treatise is for use by students after examination of the basic sources - the appellate opinions, statutes and critical commentary in the modern casebooks.

Paperback:

9781608932634 | Down East Books, June 7, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Rielly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.

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Product Description: Ted Fahrenwald flew P-47s and P-51s with the famed 352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney, England, during the critical tipping-point period of the air war over Europe. A classic devil-may-care fighter pilot, he was also a distinctively talented writer and correspondent...read more

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9781612002545 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 19, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ted Fahrenwald flew P-47s and P-51s with the famed 352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney, England, during the critical tipping-point period of the air war over Europe.

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