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By William H. Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie. 2003
Updated account of the all-African American Ninth and Tenth Cavalry during the post-Civil War Indian campaigns. Recognizes their contributions to…
the conquest of the West. Describes daily life, social issues, and various battles and peacekeeping missions with Native Americans, outlaws, and Mexican revolutionaries. Originally published in 1967. 2003By Andro Linklater. 2009
Historian uses Spanish archives and first-person accounts to portray the life of the Revolutionary War general, first governor of the…
Louisiana territory--and spy for Spain. Details Wilkinson's double-dealing life, which the author asserts four presidents overlooked because of his influence. 2009By Laura Elliott. 2009
1945. World War II pilot Henry Forester from Under a War-Torn Sky (DB 68311), returns home to Virginia and struggles…
with nightmares. Henry ventures to France to find a boy who saved his life and is shocked at the lingering devastation. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2009By Larry Minear. 2010
Commentary from post-9/11 veterans collected from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and supplemented by author interviews. Covers reasons…
for enlisting; dealing with combat, local populations, and contractors; and living with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury. Strong language and some violence. 2010By A. J. P Taylor. 1981
Oxford historian's year-by-year chronicle of World War I, which began with the assassination of Hapsburg archduke Franz Ferdinand and his…
wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Bosnia. Describes battles and behind-the-scenes politics, the use of poison gas and U-boats, and America's entry into the conflict. 1963By Louis P Masur. 2011
Overview of the causes of the American Civil War, a year-by-year summary of its major battles, and analysis of political…
and social developments in the North and South. Discusses the aftermath of the conflict--including President Lincoln's assassination and Reconstruction--and the ways it changed the country. 2011By Kevin Maurer, Mark Owen. 2012
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a…
Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group ? commonly known as SEAL Team Six ? has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history. In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America’s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe. And look for NO HERO, the follow-up to NO EASY DAY, coming May 2014.By United States, Department of Veteran Affairs. 2011
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 2012 summary of benefits provided to eligible individuals. Covers health care, service-related disabilities, pensions, education…
and training, home loans, life insurance, burial and memorial benefits, transition assistance, and dependents and survivors. 2012By Aranka Siegal. 2003
Author recounts her experiences as a young Jewish girl during Hitler's rise to power. Recalls being trapped in Ukraine while…
visiting her grandmother, returning to her family in Hungary, and being forcibly moved to an Auschwitz ghetto. Describes the many wartime restrictions. For grades 6-9. Newbery Honor Book. 1981By Martine Perez. 2005
Juillet 2002 : la publication d'une enquête américaine sur le THS (traitement hormonal substitutif) provoque un véritable séisme dans le…
milieu médical : d'un côté les épidémiologistes invoquent les risques accrus de cancers du sein et de maladies cardiovasculaires, de l'autre certains gynécologues dénoncent le mauvais procès fait à un traitement qui améliore le confort des femmes et parlent de diabolisation antiféministe. Cette polémique, largement médiatisée, a plongé des millions de femmes dans le désarroi : doivent-elles, oui ou non, suivre le THS ? Parce qu'elle se pose la question, comme toutes les femmes qui ont dépassé la quarantaine, Martine Perez a mené une enquête approfondie. En se voulant le plus objective possible, elle raconte l'histoire de ce traitement, ses bénéfices incontestables sur certains points (les bouffées de chaleur et l'ostéoporose) comme ses fausses promesses (rêves de jeunesse quasi éternelle qui, pendant trente ans, ont fait la fortune de nombreux laboratoires) et ses vrais risques (cancer du sein). -- 4e de couvBy Robert M Edsel. 2010
" On les appelait les " Monuments men "; ils venaient de treize pays différents et dans la vie civile…
ils étaient architectes, conservateurs, historiens de l'art... Leur mission: protéger le patrimoine européen lors de la reconquête alliée et récupérer les milliers d'oeuvres d'art saisies par les Nazis. Robert Edsel a suivi particulièrement neuf hommes et une femme de ce commando d'experts. James J. Rorimer, qui deviendra le futur directeur du MOMA et découvrira dans le château de Neuschwanstein des milliers de tableaux, Jacques Jaujard, le directeur des Musées nationaux qui réussira à protéger le Louvre, et surtout l'étonnante Rose Valland, véritable héroïne, pourtant méconnue, qui établira secrètement au Jeu de Paume la liste des transferts des oeuvres vers l'Allemagne. Des plages du D-Day au Nid d'aigle de Berchtesgaden, des mines de Merkers à celles de Altaussee, Robert Edsel nous fait participer à la plus extraordinaire et dangereuse chasse au trésor du XXe siècle. " -- 4e de couvBy Diane Atkinson. 2010
Dual biography of British heroines Elsie Knocker and Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, who met in a motorcycling club in 1912. Describes their…
time tending the wounded on the front lines in Belgium as part of a World War I ambulance corps. Discusses their demobilization after being gassed and their post-war lives. 2010By Lorraine B Diehl. 2010
Discusses the social changes that occurred in New York City after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Covers the way the…
town became the target of German U-boats and saboteurs and the destination of servicemen on leave. Highlights the lives of ordinary New Yorkers who contributed to the war effort. 2010By Matt Tavares. 2012
Biography of Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger. Recounts his early years as an awkward youth, his rise to…
All-Star status in 1941, and his military service during World War II and the Korean War. Covers his return to baseball as Player of the Decade. For grades 2-4. 2012By Doreen Rappaport. 2012
Personal accounts from members of the Jewish resistance throughout German-occupied Europe during the Holocaust. Details the actions of individuals like…
Georges Loinger, who smuggled Jewish children out of occupied France, and Youra Livchitz, who ambushed a train bound for a death camp. Violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012By Steve Sheinkin. 2012
Award-winning author recounts the history of the atom bomb and the race among the United States, Nazi Germany, and the…
Soviet Union to build--or steal--the deadly weapon during World War II. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012By Craig L Symonds. 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicles the naval campaigns of the American Civil War. Discusses the coastal blockade of the South that…
ruined the economy and the Union dominance of inland rivers that cut the Confederacy in half. Details the leaders, regional campaigns, innovations, and battle tactics. 2009By Patrick De Gmeline. 2009
« 12 novembre 1918 : au lendemain même de l'armistice de Rethondes, les troupes françaises, britanniques et américaines rentrent victorieusement…
en Alsace-Lorraine. La conférence de la paix s'ouvre solennellement à Paris le 18 janvier 1919. Elle s'achèvera le 28 juin par la signature du traité dans la galerie des Glaces du château de Versailles, devant tous les représentants des puissances alliées. Pour la première fois, cet événement politique, diplomatique et militaire majeur du xxe siècle, qui a modelé le visage de l'Europe jusqu'à notre époque, est abordé sous l'angle de la chronique quotidienne. Ce livre met en scène les acteurs politiques et militaires de l'époque, les premiers rôles comme les seconds, qu'ils soient français, britanniques, américains, italiens ou allemands, mais aussi ceux représentant les puissances associées ". Il aborde simultanément les événements qui se déroulent au même moment dans les différents pays où se joue alors l'avenir immédiat de l'Europe, événements qui étaient le plus souvent connus avec un décalage dans le temps expliquant bien des décisions, bien des ignorances et des incompréhensions aussi ! Cette approche met en évidence les difficultés extrêmes de la négociation et les oppositions violentes, voire les affrontements, des Quatre Grands pour tenter de régler la paix du monde [...]. » -- 4e de couvBy Anne Ancelin Schützenberger. 2005
« Sans qu'ils le veuillent, sans qu'ils le sachent, et bien malgré nous, nos parents, nos grands-parents, nos aïeux nous…
laissent en héritage leurs deuils non faits, leurs traumatismes non «digérés», leurs secrets. Or, si les choses ne sont pas dites, le corps, lui, peut parfois les exprimer: c'est la somatisation. Le corps de l'enfant, du petit-enfant, de l'arrière-petit-enfant, quel que soit son âge, devient alors le langage de l'ancêtre blessé, la «parole» de ses traumatismes. Il est donc nécessaire de «sortir le cadavre du placard», de décoder et de soigner les plaies non refermées. Pour se libérer -enfin- du «froid» que l'on portait en soi. » -- 4e de couvBy Brayton Harris. 2012
Chronicles the life of five-star admiral Chester Nimitz (1885-1966), who took charge of America's Pacific fleet after the December 7,…
1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Traces Nimitz's Texas childhood, years at the Naval Academy, and rise through the ranks to command two million men and one thousand ships. 2011