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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell [...] weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Drasko is happy working with his father in the Sarajevo market. Then war encroaches. Drasko must run the family flower stand alone.
One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician's response, Drasko finds...
One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician's response, Drasko finds...
4) A higher call: an incredible true story of combat and chivalry in the war-torn skies of Word War II
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013, 2012
Physical Desc
viii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 -- the American -- 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 -- and the German -- 2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this ... true story of reconciliation after war, ... a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize"--Provided by publisher.
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