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Atom land: a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics
Par Jon Butterworth. 2018
From a top physicist at CERN comes the first guide to the fundamental units of matter and the forces that…
act on them--particle physics--since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model, leading the listener from basic concepts to the cutting edge. 2018.On April 4, 1945, US Army units from the Eighty-Ninth Infantry Division and the Fourth Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the…
first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated. Drawing on archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts, historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, focusing on the experiences of the soldiers and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history. 2018.Astrophysics for people in a hurry
Par Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.As good as dead: the true WWII story of eleven American POWs who escaped from Palawan Island
Par Stephen L Moore. 2016
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach.…
But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines were herded into shallow air raid shelters, Japanese soldiers doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive-but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun. 2016.Dawn of infamy: a sunken ship, a vanished crew, and the final mystery of Pearl Harbor
Par Stephen Harding. 2016
Harding explores the little-known episode of a U.S. cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the…
attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. 2016.Deadly sky: the American combat airman in World War II
Par John C McManus. 2016
This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America's fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men…
who, in nearly four years of warfare all over the globe, suffered over 120,000 casualties with over 40,000 killed. 2016.Commander in chief: FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
Par Nigel Hamilton. 2016
Describes the yearlong battle between Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II, to decide whether the Allies should carry out…
the planned invasion of Normandy, or take on disastrous fighting in Italy. 2016.Beyond the call: the true story of one World War II pilot's covert mission to rescue POWs on the eastern front
Par Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield. 2015
Destination Casablanca: exile, espionage, and the battle for North Africa in World War II
Par Meredith Hindley. 2017
In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a…
key military target. It soon became rife with rogue soldiers, Jewish refugees, celebrities, and Nazi agents. In 1942, Americans and British arrived, and the port soon saw power grabs, plot twists, and diplomatic intrigue. 'Destination Casablanca' is the riveting and untold history of this glamorous and beloved city, memorialized in the classic film, at the heart of World War II. 2017.The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree…
young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill. 2014.I am a star: child of the Holocaust
Par Inge Auerbacher. 1999
Five days in London: May 1940
Par John Lukacs. 2000
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the…
members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus. 2000.Flak: true stories from the men who flew in World War Two
Par Michael Veitch. 2006
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person…
who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, before their personal stories disappear for ever. So, over the course of a year, Veitch interviewed over fifty former aircrew across Australia, many of whom had never spoken about their experiences before, even to their families. The result is Flak - a collection of vivid, unforgettable stories from RAAF veterans about their experiences of combat in World War II. 2006.Home away from home: the Yanks in Ireland
Par Mary Pat Kelly. 1994
Told, in part, by former American soldiers and the people who made them welcome, this is the story of the…
huge American presence in Northern Ireland during World War II, and the key role the North played in winning the war. 1994.How did we find out about the speed of light? (How did we find out--series.)
Par Isaac Asimov. 1986
Hunting evil: how the Nazi war criminals escaped and the hunt to bring them to justice
Par Guy Walters. 2009
At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from…
justice. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, travelled the 'rat lines', and poured through archives across the globe to bring this period of our recent history to life. 2009.How we lived then: a history of everyday life during the Second World War
Par Norman Longmate. 1971
Grass beyond the mountains: discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American continent
Par Richmond P Hobson. 1951
In the fall of 1934, three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch made their way from peaceful…
Wyoming to the harsh, uncharted territory of the British Columbian interior. In conditions as challenging as any encountered by the western frontier pioneers of a hundred years earlier, the three men and their equipment-laden horses conquered the tortuous miles over narrow passes and mountain summits, hewed their first cabin from virgin timber, and attempted to carve out a space for themselves on the unforgiving landscape. Followed by "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 1951.Green Beach
Par James Leasor. 1975
This is a true-life account of one aspect of the Dieppe raid in 1942. A key objective was to test…
the German radar defences. Dressed in a Canadian uniform was British radar expert, Jack Nissenthal, whose presence was so critical that he was protected by ten sharp-shooting bodyguards. 1975.Hitler's silent partners: Swiss banks, Nazi gold, and the pursuit of justice
Par Isabel Vincent. 1997
During World War Two many Jews opened numbered, untraceable accounts with Swiss banks in an attempt to protect their money…
from Hitler's Nazis. What they didn't know was that many of these banks were also doing business with the Nazis. Here the author follows one family in their quest to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. 1997.