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- A genealogist's guide to discovering your English ancestors : how to find and record your unique heritage / by Milner, Paul,1953-; Jonas, Linda,1953-;
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- Subjects: British Americans;
- © c2000., Betterway Books,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- British and American tanks of World War Two : the complete illustrated history of British, American and Commonwealth tanks, 1939-1945 / by Chamberlain, Peter,1919-; Ellis, Chris;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217) and index.
- Subjects: Tanks (Military science);
- © 2000, c1969., Cassell & Co.,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The tale of Tricky Fox : a New England trickster tale / by Aylesworth, Jim; McClintock, Barbara;
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- Subjects: Foxes; British Americans; Tales; Tricksters;
- © 2001., Scholastic Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy / by Lewis, Damien,author.;
"Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and exotic dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all "negroes and Jews." Yet, instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy. Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Agent Josephine transforms the scarcely known story of Josephine Baker in wartime. As a member of the French Nurse paratroopers, a cover for her spying work, Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and became a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served: the US, the nation of her birth; France, the land that embraced her during her adult career; and Britain, the country from which she took her orders, as one of London's most closely-guarded secrets. Baker's secret war is a true story of unbounded courage, passion, devotion and sacrifice, and of deep and bitter tragedy, fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism and fight for a more just future"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.; Dancers; African American entertainers; Spies; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Christopher Hitchens : the last interview and other conversations / by Hitchens, Christopher,author.; Fry, Stephen,1957-writer of introduction.; Rutan, Carl,interviewer.; Cherry, Matt,interviewer.; Abramsky, Sasha,interviewer.; Gabel, J. C.,interviewer.; Stewart, Jon,1962-interviewer.; Dawkins, Richard,1941-interviewer.;
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- Subjects: Interviews.; Biographies.; Hitchens, Christopher; Hitchens, Christopher; Right and left (Political science); Intellectuals; Journalists; Political activists; British Americans;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The fire and the darkness : the bombing of Dresden, 1945 / by McKay, Sinclair,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death. Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay's The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay's reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there. What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay's brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned."--
- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- To the greatest heights : facing danger, finding humility, and climbing a mountain of truth : a memoir / by O'Brien, Vanessa,1964-author.;
"A memoir by Vanessa O'Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world's highest mountains"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; O'Brien, Vanessa, 1964-; Women mountaineers; Women mountaineers;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- A deadly dedication / by Loudon, Margaret,author.;
A murder in her quaint British bookshop drops American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish into her deadliest caper yet.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Novels.; Americans; Bookstores; Murder; Women novelists;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The War of 1812 [videorecording] / by Chowder, Ken.; Garey, Diane.; Hott, Lawrence R.; Hyman, Judy.; Mantegna, Joe.; McCarthy, Stephen.; Florentine Films.; Hott Productions.; PBS Home Video.; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.);
Cinematography, Stephen McCarthy ; music, Judy Hyman.Narrator, Joe Mantegna.Originally broadcast on PBS.A two-hour documentary looking at this important historic event from several perspectives, the American, Canadian, British and Native American. The program will have some limited but very well done reenactments and major historians, authors, and experts.E.DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen presentation ; stereo.
- Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.;
- © c2011., PBS Home Video,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Monopoly X : How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes. by Orbanes, Philip E.;
'Monopoly X' is an amazing true story of WWII that reveals how British and American military intelligence smuggled supplies and escape tools into German P.O.W. camps disguised as Monopoly game sets, enabling imprisoned servicemen to escape.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: HISTORY / Military / Strategy; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General; TRUE CRIME / Espionage;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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