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Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience…
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, aga…
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- 9780812987119
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- 940.547252092 HIL u
Soldier's Heart
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure. The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When…
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- 9780440228387
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- 102p; bw; pbk
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- 823 PAU S
Amos Fortune : Free Man
Winner of the Newbery Medal! When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true. "The moving story of …
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- 9780140341584
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- 181p; bw; pbk
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The Lord God Made Them All : Semuanya Ciptaan Tuhan
James Herriot kembali menceritakan berbagai pengalamannya sebagai dokter hewan di pedesaan Yorkshire. James, yang baru pulang bertugas dari Perang Dunia II, sekarang berperang melawan penyakit dan kecelakaan yang menimpa binatang-binatang di Skeldale serta padang-padang sekitarnya.
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Hiroshima ; Ketika Bom Di Jatuhkan
Pesawat B29 menjadi momok mengerikan bagi rakyat Jepang selama Perang Dunia II. Pesawat yang sama kemudian membawa bom atom yang meluluh-lantakkan Hiroshima dan mengubah sejarah untuk selamanya. Inilah kisah kesaksian enam warga penyintas dari tragedi yang mengakhiri perang dunia kedua, saat dijatuhkannya bom atom di Hiroshima, Jepang. Buku dari pemenang Pulitzer-Prize, John Hersey, ini merupak…
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- 9789793731292
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Sejarah Lengkap Perang Dunia II 1939 - 1945
Berbicara tentang Perang Dunia II pasti tidak jauh dari pembahasan soal Hitler dan Jerman, aliansi Sekutu dan Poros, dan juga bom atom yang dijatuhkan Amerika Serikat ke dua kota besar di Jepang. B Buku ini secara garis besar membicarakan sejarah umum yang terjadi selama Perang Dunia II di berbagai belahan dunia. Terkhususnya yang dalam kurun waktu enam tahun selama berlangsungnya Perang Dun…
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Sejarah Lengkap Perang Dunia 1 (1914-1918)
Perang Dunia I (WW1) adalah kontes gladiator terbesar sepanjang sejarah umat manusia yang melibatkan para hegemon Eropa serta koloninya. Vladimir Lenin, sang tokoh komunis Rusia yang dijuluki “virus” oleh para hegemon Eropa menyebut perang ini sebagai “perangnya bangsawan” bukan ”perang rakyat”. Pemikirannya yang dilandasi sikap anti kaum ningrat dan prorakyat ini nantinya melahirka…
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- 9786232441323
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Perang Dingin Tiongkok, Malaya, Malaysia 1949-1974
Buku ini menggambarkan tentang naik turunnya hubungan antara Tiongkok dan Malaysia sejak republik Rakyat Tiongkok (RRT) berdiri pada 1949. Bahkan, pada saat Malaya masih berada di bawah cengkraman kolonialisme Inggris. Digambarkan pula dukungan RRT terhadap Partai Komunis Malaya (PKM) yang melakukan perang gerilya dengan para pemimpin dan pejuangnya sebagian besar terdiri dari etnik Tionghoa…
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On The Beach
Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American s…
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Scoop
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the …
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