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2) Breaking the code: a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
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On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew. They began to meet for lunch every week, for her to ask him questions, and him to provide the answers. It was through this process that she discovered...
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viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience...
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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
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English
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Introduces members of the United States Navy who committed acts of heroism since September 11, 2001, including medics in Iraq, a photographer in Afghanistan, and two SEALs who won the Medal of Honor, and describes their accomplishments.
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xi, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Presents the story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who was marooned on a South Pacific island and waged a one-man war against Japanese forces. By the author of The New York Times best-seller The Last Battle" -- NoveList.
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viii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles. --Publisher.
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x, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In "A Measureless Peril," the historian Richard Snow captures all the drama of the merciless contest between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats that controlled the sea lanes of the Atlantic during WWII.
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vii, 163 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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English
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"Legendary comic book artist Sam Glanzman draws upon his own experiences aboard a WWII destroyer in these gripping tales of Navy life, including a new 10-page story created for this edition. Recounted in graphic novel style, these dramatic adventures realistically depict a teenager's military career, from initiation and advancement through the ranks to tours of the Pacific and kamikaze attacks at the Battle of Okinawa. New introduction by Max Brooks,...
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