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100 1 _aDowswell, Paul.
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245 1 0 _aTrue stories of the Second World War /
_cPaul Dowswell.
250 _a[1st U.S. ed.]
260 _aTulsa, Okla. :
_bEDC Pub.,
_c2003.
300 _a169 p. :
_bill., map ;
_c20 cm.
500 _a"First published in 2003 by Usborne Pub. Ltd., London, England"--T.p. verso.
505 0 _a"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.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945.
_923338
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