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1) Hiroshima
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Hiroshima is the story of six people--a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest--who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through...
6) Manzanar
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Portrays the internments of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The war lover: In England during World War II, bomber pilots fall for the same girl, but only one will make it through the war to ask for her hand. Hellcats of the Navy: Highlights the daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II. This is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's only screen appearance together. Anzio: A war correspondent paints a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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An Italian-American major, part of American occupation forces in Sicily during World War II, tries to reform the town in his charge by being decent to people. His efforts are epitomized by his efforts to replace the 700-year-old bell melted down for bullets by the fascists.
10) Fallout
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of the greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century-the true effects of the atom bomb-potentially saving millions of lives."--
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