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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
3) The Pacific
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Follows the intertwined stories of four United States Marines and a United States Navy carrier pilot as they face the horrors of war while fighting in the Pacific during World War II.
Author
Series
World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.
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