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True stories of the Second World War / Paul Dowswell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tulsa, Okla. : EDC Pub., 2003.Edition: [1st U.S. ed.]Description: 169 p. : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0794505996 (pbk.) :
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Contents:
"As dirty a business as the world has ever seen...": Brief introduction to the Second World War -- First and final voyage of the Bismarck: Germany's most famous battleship takes to the sea -- Cracking Enigma: Disentangling the German navy's secret code -- Death of a salesgirl: Short life of British secret agent, Biolette Szabo -- Stalin's female "Falcons": Women who flew in the Soviet air force -- Book-keeper's storage problem: Adolf Eichmann oversees the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution -- War of the rats: Lieutenant Zaitsev meets Major Thorwald in the rubble of Stalingrad -- Lost hero: Raoul Wallenberg's mercy mission to Hungary has an unexpected ending -- "...like running through rain and not getting wet.": Surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima -- Destroyer of worlds: Manhattan Project and the atom bomb attacks on Japan -- Alias "Uncle Ricardo": Hunt for Adolf Eichmann -- From Technicolor to black and white...: After the war ended.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 940.53 D752 Available Some wapred pages noted 7/14/17 33111003887102
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

- Collections of thrilling adventure stories, all based on actual life events- Ideal for reluctant readers.

"First published in 2003 by Usborne Pub. Ltd., London, England"--T.p. verso.

"As dirty a business as the world has ever seen...": Brief introduction to the Second World War -- First and final voyage of the Bismarck: Germany's most famous battleship takes to the sea -- Cracking Enigma: Disentangling the German navy's secret code -- Death of a salesgirl: Short life of British secret agent, Biolette Szabo -- Stalin's female "Falcons": Women who flew in the Soviet air force -- Book-keeper's storage problem: Adolf Eichmann oversees the Wannsee Conference on the Final Solution -- War of the rats: Lieutenant Zaitsev meets Major Thorwald in the rubble of Stalingrad -- Lost hero: Raoul Wallenberg's mercy mission to Hungary has an unexpected ending -- "...like running through rain and not getting wet.": Surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima -- Destroyer of worlds: Manhattan Project and the atom bomb attacks on Japan -- Alias "Uncle Ricardo": Hunt for Adolf Eichmann -- From Technicolor to black and white...: After the war ended.

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