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Impressively researched, engrossing, lightning quick, and filled with human sorrow and elation, John C. McManus's The Americans at D-Day honors those Americans who lost their lives on D-Day, as well as those who were fortunate enough to survive.
June 6, 1944 was a pivotal moment in the history of World War II in Europe. On that day the climactic and decisive phase of the war began. Those who survived the intense fighting on
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The Eyewitness History series reveals how important periods and events in American history were seen and interpreted by people from all levels of society.
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The U.S. troops who fought in the Pacific during World War II (1939-1945) rallied after the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 to fight many grueling battles with Japan. Author Susan Provost Beller brings the daily struggles of these troops to life with first-person accounts of battles against an enemy that did not believe in surrender. These stories combine the routines of military life and the logistics of fighting an island-hopping war far from home...
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A comprehensive and compelling examination of the many complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan, this groundbreaking history counters the revisionist interpretations that question President Truman's rationale for using the atom bomb.