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1) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
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"Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak--in Holland and the Ardennes--Easy Company was as good a rifle company...
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This book covers the story of Ulysses S. Grant's extremely important capture of rebel positions before marching south to win the battle of Shiloh, As well as that of Albert Sidney Johnston, The "pride of the Confederacy." Finally, it details the dramatic events of the siege of Vickburg-the Confederates' final fortress.
3) World War I
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Provides descriptions of twenty-one key events in the history of World War I, beginning with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 and continuing through the opening of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Includes time lines.
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This book traces the events that surrounded the capture of Atlanta, followed by Sherman's famous campaign of destruction through the southern interior which culminated in April 1865 with the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Durham Station, North Carolina.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa.
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation
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Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.
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Chronicles the history of World War II in the Mediterranean from 1940 to 1945, providing background on Italian imperialism, identifying the warring sides, discussing the outbreak of war, the fighting, and the end of the conflict, and including portraits of a civilian and a soldier.
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In January 1944 the Red Army at last succeeded in putting to an end one of the most dramatic sieges in the history of warfare, that of Leningrad. The Soviet spearheads quickly expelled the Wehrmacht from the vicinity of the city, but once they reached the prewar border with Estonia, they were stopped dead in their tracks by a very determined Axis resistance. There, at river Narva, Germans, Estonians, and Waffen SS volunteers and conscripts from all...
17) Dunkirk
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A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.