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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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 before, during, and after the war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
3) World War II
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an eyewitness account of the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II, from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Be an eyewitness to the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II -- from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Discover how everyday items were reused for the war effort. See the way propaganda affected the minds of people. Find out why many Japanese soldiers would rather die than face capture. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets...
7) The day the world went nuclear: dropping the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Portrays the events of World War II in 1944, when escalating Pacific battles between the forces of General MacArthur and the Japanese army lead to the development of humanity's deadliest weapon and President Truman's impossible choice.
12) Weapons
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Photographs and text provide an overview of the weapons used by both sides during World War II, including information on the infantry weapons, artillery and missiles, tanks, ships, aircraft, and the atomic bomb.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes some of the weapons used by both the Allied and Axis forces during World War II, including automatic weapons, radar, early computers, tanks, aircraft carriers, bombers and fighter planes, and the atomic bomb.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and joined World War I. German submarine attacks on American ships in March 1917 were the overt motive for declaring war, but the underlying reasons were far more complex. Even after the United States officially joined, Americans were divided on whether they should be a part of it. Americans were told they were fighting a war for democracy, but with racial segregation rampant in the United...