Stories From the Front Lines - Interview with WWII Combat Veteran Ernie Lichau - Part 1

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  • The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of WWII's Most Decorated Platoon

    • ASIN: 0306814404
    • ISBN: 0306814404
    • Brand: Kershaw, Alex
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positionsOn the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly ... [Read More]

  • The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II

    • ASIN: B001UID8DM
    • Brand: Dutton Caliber
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

  • Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

    • ASIN: 0425276058
    • ISBN: 0425276058
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    This is the inspiring true story of Captain Robert Trimble, who laid his life on the line to rescue hundreds of World War II POWs, including women and children, on the Eastern Front. Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-prisoners of war were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, the POW... [Read More]

  • Best Little Stories from World War II: More than 100 true stories

    • UPC: 760789230868
    • ASIN: 140224357X
    • ISBN: 140224357X
    • Brand: Brand: Cumberland House
    • Manufacturer: Cumberland House

    The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war.Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery a... [Read More]

  • And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II

    • ASIN: 140003129X
    • ISBN: 140003129X
    • Brand: Monahan, Evelyn M./ Neidel-Greenlee, Rosemary
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy ... [Read More]

  • If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

    • ASIN: 0804100039
    • ISBN: 0804100039
    • Brand: Wilson, George
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bu... [Read More]

  • The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commanger

    • ASIN: 0743227182
    • ISBN: 0743227182
    • Brand: Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in it... [Read More]

  • WAR

    • ASIN: B0035II95C
    • Manufacturer: Twelve

  • Eyewitness to World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs From History's Greatest Conflict

    • ASIN: 1426209703
    • ISBN: 9781426209703
    • Brand: National Geographic Society
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

  • Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

    • ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

    Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke ... [Read More]

  • The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater

    • ASIN: 0996480005
    • ISBN: 0996480005
    • Manufacturer: Matthew A. Rozell

    The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock is one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000... [Read More]

  • World War Z (Unrated)

    • ASIN: B00EMJBVAI

  • No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II

    • ASIN: 0316344672
    • ISBN: 0316344672
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    Discover an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II in this young readers' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend.No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war d... [Read More]

  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    • ASIN: B003WUYPPG
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific: The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII

    • ASIN: 0545425581
    • ISBN: 9780545425582
    • Brand: Scholastic Press
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific tells the incredible story of America's little known "war within a war" -- US submarine warfare during World War II.Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II in December 1941 with only 44 Naval submarines -- many of them dating from the 1920s. With the Pacific... [Read More]

  • What Once Was True: An Irish WW2 Story (The Robinswood Story Book 1)

    • ASIN: B07F1KTZDL

    New from USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jean Grainger,One House, two families and a war that changes everthing that once was true....Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money ... [Read More]

  • Love Stories of World War II

    • ASIN: 0609607235
    • ISBN: 0739423002
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    Both poignant and inspiring, these are the moving stories of men and women who met amid the chaos of the most devastating war in history and became the loves of one another’s lives. Many are now enjoying their seventies and eighties together after more than fifty happy years of marriage. They met in many remarkable ways, some in the briefest of c... [Read More]

  • The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume II: War in the Air-From the Great Depression to Combat

    • ASIN: B0737M5NDQ

    "For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." But dying for freedom isn’t the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. — “You flew with what I would call ‘controlled fear’. You were scared stiff, but it was controlled. My ball turret gunner—he couldn’t take it anymore… I guess he was... [Read More]

  • Behind Hitler's Lines: The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for both America and the Soviet Union in World War II

    • ASIN: 0891418458
    • ISBN: 9780891418450
    • Brand: Brand: Presidio Press
    • Manufacturer: Presidio Press

    "Remarkable... Without a doubt, one of the most incredible stories you will ever read." -The Roanoke Times"Every once in a while, a true story comes along that reads like fiction... It grabs you on page one and never lets go." - Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services CommitteeAs the twentieth century closed, the veterans of... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

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