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Title The longest year : America at war and at home in 1944 / Victor Brooks.
Author Brooks, Victor, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Carrel Books, [2015]
©2015
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  940.54 BRO    Check Shelves
Description xxiii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
Contents Prologue December 1943 -- A gathering of eagles -- The ghosts of hills and rivers -- The Anzio gambit -- The rise of the sky knights -- The last invasion of Britain -- Storming a stolen empire -- The race for Rome -- The deadly sands of Normandy -- The gods of sea and sky -- Showdown on Saipan -- Raising the fallen colors -- Days of the liberators -- Redemption at Leyte -- The home front war -- Autumn of shattered dreams -- Epilogue 1945.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- History.
War casualties -- History.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social life and customs -- History.
Nineteen forty-four, A.D.
ISBN 9781631440236 (hardback) : $34.99
1631440233 (hardback)
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