Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today
10 best books like Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today (Candlewick Press): 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond, Lady Liberty, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
I found 11 days in December slightly disappointing. I expected more from Mr. Weintraub. For those looking for a good overall narrative of the events of Dec/Jan 1944/1945 need to look elsewhere.
What this is, is a slender (180 pgs) series of anecdotes from both high level, Patton, Bradley, Monty...
| Author | John Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1419728385 |
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Patrick Dillon |
| ISBN | 0763669903 |
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.
We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0763625302 |
A powerfully moving, authentic portrait of the Statue of Liberty, told through the eyes of those who created her and illustrated in glorious detail.
"Soon America will be one hundred years old. I share my dream of a birthday gift."
It begins in 1865 as a romantic idea, but ten years later...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | William Hogeland |
| ISBN | 1416584099 |
I think most people, when they think of the pre-Revolutionary days, are aware of two groups--those that supported independence and those that did not. But Hogeland shows how much more complex the real story was. There were those that wanted war with England leading to independence. There were those...
| Author | Ernie Pyle |
| ISBN | 0671644521 |
I was given a copy of this book to aid in my research on WWII for one of my Lash novels. I thought that it was simply going to be transcripts of Ernie’s dispatches sent in from the front lines of WWII that later were published in America. I hoped to get some eyewitness accounts and maybe some interesting anecdotes....
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Robert Gildea |
| ISBN | 0312423594 |
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts,...
| Author | Jeff Guinn |
| ISBN | 1585426695 |
All three of Jeff Guinn’s beloved Christmas Chronicles novels in one elegant edition.
The Autobiography of Santa Claus
“A book that deserves classic status.”
—The Dallas Morning News
This enchanting classic combines solid historical fact with glorious...
| Author | Ann Kramer |
| ISBN | 1844680584 |
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0763677558 |
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn't the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River -- and it could have been prevented.
In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln's assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released...
| Author | Matthew Clark Smith |
| ISBN | 0763677329 |
Take to the skies with the beautifully told tale of Sophie Blanchard a woman meant for the air as she discovers the incomparable sensation of flight.
Behold the story of Sophie Blanchard, an extraordinary woman who is largely forgotten despite her claim to being the very first female pilot in history....
| Author | Phil Bildner |
| ISBN | 0763673080 |
A fascinating dual biography of tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert celebrates the power of equality, respect, and sportsmanship.
Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert come from completely different places and play tennis in completely different ways. Chrissie is the all-American...
| Author | National Children's Book & Literacy Alliance |
More than one hundred leading authors and illustrators donate their talents in a creative tour de force that is making history.
Conceived and co-created by the National Children's Book and Literary Alliance, this incomparable collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction,...
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
| Author | Stewart Ross |
| ISBN | 0763649481 |
Drystan - I thought it was great. I would give it 5 stars. My favourite story was about the Appollo 11 moon landing. I liked this best because I can't imagine building a straight, big rocket that would reach the moon. I thought that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved their dream by travelling to the...
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0763675547 |
I was drawn to this book about the First World War, as I was interested to find out more. In general, if I want to dip my toe into a subject I start with a book written for children and then, once I have the basic facts, I can decide if I want to delve deeper. I have read very little about the First World War, whereas,...
Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0743200748 |
From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.
Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first...
America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
| Author | Bruce Feiler |
| ISBN | 0060574887 |
Bruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most...
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Samuel D. Kassow |
| ISBN | 0307455866 |
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle...
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
| Author | Eric M. Bergerud |
| ISBN | 0140246967 |
A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.
The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory...
Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
| Author | John C. McManus |
| ISBN | 0451227905 |
A sweeping narrative of six decades of combat, and an eye-opening account of the evolution of the American infantry.
From the beaches of Normandy and the South Pacific Islands to the deserts of the Middle East, the American soldier has been the most indispensable- and most overlooked-factor...
Burn After Reading: The Espionage History of World War II
| Author | Ladislas Farago |
| ISBN | 1591142628 |
Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield. A behind-the-scenes history of the war, this book offers an exciting picture of the whole...
