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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Libya 1940 The Allies' First Victory
The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940, Lt Gen, Richard O’Connor launched what amounted to a British ‘Blitzkrieg’. In Less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th A…
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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Caen 1944 Montgomery's Break-out Attempt
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially dev…
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Empire of the Sun
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel …
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- 9780008555368
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- 316pg;BnW;pbk
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The Guns of August
The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the outbreak of World War I Historian & Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to WWI. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, she reveals just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic h…
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- 9780345476098
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- 606p; bw; pbk
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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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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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- 102p; bw; pbk
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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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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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