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A Stillness at Appomattox

Presents Bruce Catton's chronicle of the last year of the Civil War, from the Battle of the Wilderness to the surrender at Appomattox, and contains ten related documents including book excerpts, Civil

Appomattox Campaign, 1865, Army of the Potomac, Campaigns, Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories

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Uncommon Valor

Melvin Claxton

Tells the story of the contributions made by Sergeant Christian Fleetwood and other escaped slaves, ex-slaves,and freemen to the Union cause and how they overcame oppression, suspicion, and Confederat

19th century, African American soldiers, African American troops, Army, Biography

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D-day

Dan Van der Vat

Chronicles Operation Overlord, or D-Day, when allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, describing its planning stages, tactics used to mislead the enemy, the course of the battle, and

Campaigns, History, Military, Normandy, Normandy (France), Operation Overlord

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D-day

Dan Van der Vat

Campaigns, Normandy, Personal narratives, Pictorial works, World War, 1939-1945

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The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

Walter Dean Myers

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

Campaigns, Diaries, fiction, Historical fiction, Juvenile fiction

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Visions From a Foxhole

William A. Foley

William Foley presents an account of his experiences in 1945 as an eighteen-year-old soldier with Patton's 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps in Germany, and includes a selection of drawings he di

1926-, Biography, Campaigns, Corps, XX, Foley, William A.

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Time Enough for Drums

Ann Rinaldi

During the Revolutionary War, Jem Emerson, a fifteen-year-old from New Jersey, is torn between her love for her family and her feelings for her twenty-four-year-old tutor, John Reid, known as a Tory.

Campaigns, fiction, Historical fiction, Man-woman relationships, Revolution, 1775-1783

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World War I

Nicola Barber

Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times b

1871-1918, Campaigns, Europe, Juvenile literature, Politics and government

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The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps

Ellen Emerson White

An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968.

Campaigns, Diaries, fiction, Historical fiction, Juvenile fiction

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The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

Walter Dean Myers

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

Campaigns, Diaries, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Normandy

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