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Publisher
Immediate Media Company London Limited
Language
English
Description
For this special issue, we’ve pulled together a wealth of content on three of the biggest conflicts of the 20th century. Beginning with World War I, we explore what life was like for those living and fighting on the front line. From there, we head to Britain to discover the experiences of those on the home front during World War II: food shortages, aerial bombing and new opportunities for women. Finally, we finish our special edition with a closer
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Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a vibrant illustration style, young fans and reluctant readers can get to know the most popular villains from the Skywalker saga in this level 2 reader--including Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and more!
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 4
Language
English
Description
In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, racing against time and journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible, while the fierce fighting continues along the Western front of World War I.
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 5
Language
English
Description
In November 1918, as the guns of World War I fall silent, the Reavley siblings discover the identity of the Peacemaker, the man who had murdered their parents, but when Matthew is accused of the murder of a young nurse, his chaplain brother Joseph and ambulance driver sister Judith must race against time to clear his name, before they can unmask the traitor.
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In June of 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his father was carrying a vitally important secret document vanished when he died, and that his best student has been murdered.
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
By April 1915, as Chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warefare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn publilc opinion against the war.
9) Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-to-Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Describes what it was like for Jews who lived or died during the events of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
11) Black cross
Author
Series
World War II books volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
It is January 1944. The whole world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. But in England, Winston Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin, a horrifying new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Only a desperate gamble can avert disaster. Two men, a pacifist American doctor and a fanatical Jewish assassin, must embark on a murderous mission into the heart of Germany. Their target: a human hell where Jews fuel Hitler's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As the war in Europe winds down in the wake of the Normandy invasion, the United States has turned its vast military resources toward an all-out effort against the Japanese. In the spring of 1945, Japan's empire has been pressed slowly back toward its home islands, and the Americans mount a furious assault on the last great stepping-stone to Japan itself--the heavily fortified island of Okinawa. The three-month battle will feature some of the most...
13) The Holocaust
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. As American commanders respond to the...
17) Trench Warfare
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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