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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Now a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller.
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, this is an authoritative account of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who included the actors Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world"--Container. "Chicago by 'L'" is part travelogue, part history, and part tour of Chicago's neighborhoods by 'L', Chicago's elevated train.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Savannah is an imaginative six-year-old whose wealthy politician parents have little time for her. When Savannah runs away from home and hides in the broken-down getaway car of two bumbling felons, the small-time crooks are mistaken for kidnappers.
7) Hoffman Foundation Wayne County history scholarship essays: submitted for 1962 scholarship awards
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Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
1962?]
Language
English
8) Emma
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harriet to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...