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After his liberation from a prison camp in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV returned to the U.S. and commenced work on a series of newspaper articles that would ...
It is remarkable to think that MacArthur was only the third most important U.S. Army general officer in World War II. You may scoff at American exceptionalism or regard divine providence as so ...
The men of the 57th Bomb Wing flew out of Corsica during World War II and bombed vital bridges throughout Italy to sabotage German supply routes. Their missions were dangerous and never-ending.
James Bradley talked about his book, [Flyboys: A True Story of Courage]. Donovan Webster talked about his book, [The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II].
There isn’t a specific category of sales data for kids books about World War II overall. But print book sales of kids’ titles focused on the Holocaust, part of the World War II canon, rose 13% ...
The Soviet women warriors of World War II were to forgo their emotions along with their feminine clothes. In male-issue uniforms they marched as infantry soldiers, tank mechanics, machine-gunners ...
In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, America's book publishers took an audacious gamble. They decided to sell the armed forces cheap paperbacks, shipped to units scattered around the globe.
More than 75 years ago, the six-year nightmare called World War II ended on Sept. 2, 1945. It had a death toll of 75 million people, more than three times ...
The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some of the hottest novels with young readers starting ...
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