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Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the ships used by the German, Japanese, American, and British navies in World War II and the military strategies that led to the defeat of the Axis powers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 604
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
48) Wolf packs
Series
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
49) Victory at sea
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Collector's ed.; full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (685 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The original full-length episodes of the award-winning series made exclusively for television and containing actual live action footage. Introduces the campaigns and action of World War II, concentrating on battles and action at sea.
50) U-boat war
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
325 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major ship a day to murderous swarms of kamikazes streaming out of Formosa and southern Japan. The radar picket line is the first defense and early warning against these hellish formations,...
55) Shadow divers
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater.
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