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Band of sisters : Madeleine Pauliac, the women of the Blue Squadron, and their daring rescue missions in the last days of World War II

Maynial, Philippe, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.5344 MAY

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:796319

Radar and the raft : a true story about a scientific marvel, the lives it saved, and the world it changed

Lantos, Jeff, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.54 LAN

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SD_ILS:787718

Abandon ship! : the true World War II story about the sinking of the Laconia

Tougias, Michael J., 1955- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.54293 TOU

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SD_ILS:670093

Lost at sea : Eddie Rickenbacker's twenty-four days adrift on the Pacific--a World War II tale of courage and faith

Wukovits, John F., 1944- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.544973 WUK

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SD_ILS:681629

Pathway to the stars : 100 years of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Hood, Michael (Retired lieutenant general), author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

358.400971 HOO

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SD_ILS:704197

The Black Swan of Paris [CD]

Robards, Karen, author.

Publication Date

2020

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ROB

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SD_ILS:557623

The Black Swan of Paris

Robards, Karen, author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

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ROB

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SD_ILS:557603

The Black Swan of Paris [large print]

Robards, Karen, author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

ROB

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SD_ILS:587333

Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man

Vincent, Lynn, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.5426 VIN

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SD_ILS:462929

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Dunkirk [DVD video]

Holmes, Alex, film director.

Publication Date

2017

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DVD & blu-ray

Call Number

DUN

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SD_ILS:432674

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Frozen in time [DAISY talking book] : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II

Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Publication Date

2014

Format:

Digital

Call Number

998.2 ZUC

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SD_ILS:702082

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Frozen in time : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II

Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Publication Date

2013

Format:

Book

Call Number

998.2 ZUC

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SD_ILS:265517

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Craughwell, Thomas J., 1956-

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Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- actor.

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Dalton, Timothy, 1944- narrator.

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Freeman, Gregory A.

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Harlequin Enterprises, publisher.

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Jenkins, Tom, 1959- author.

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