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1	Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen more books like this by Bob Greene add to wishlist The Nebraskan town of North Platte, now dotted with stripmalls and fast food restaurants, lies on the rail line where, sixty years ago, American soldiers preparing to head off to World War II would stop. The hospitality they received there was a homegrown sort, volunteered by the citizens of North Platte and topped off with hot coffee. Chicago ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Footprints on the Sand more books like this by Judith Lennox add to wishlist The Mulgraves are a rootless, bohemian family who travel the continent of Europe. With Germany's invasion of France in 1940 the family is forced to flee to England. Through war and its aftermath, it is the courageous and steadfast Faith on whom the family relies. see all copies from $1.99! SVS
3	War Romance of the Salvation Army more books like this by Grace Livingston Hill add to wishlist The courage, enthusiasm, love, and determination of the Salvation Army women knew no bounds--even if it meant death at the hands of the enemy. The 21st book of the Grace Livingston Hill series, available for the first time in paperback. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Winter in June: A Rosie Winter Mystery more books like this by Kathryn Miller Haines add to wishlist New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for the war front. So when Rosie and her best pal Jayne get an offer to go to the South Pacific to perform with USO Camp ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	The war romance of the Salvation Army more books like this by Evangeline Booth add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ni. THE TOtTti SECTOK. Headquabtebs of the First Division were established at Menil-la-Tour and that of the First Brigade at Ansau- ville. Information came on leaving ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $13.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Brutality of Nations more books like this by Dan Jacobs add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.60! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War more books like this by Roy Morris, Jr. add to wishlist On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see - the noble young men with legs and arms taken off - the deaths - the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so deathly weak and sick." For nearly three years, Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions
8	Doughnut Dollies: American Red Cross Girls During World War II: A Novel more books like this by Helen Airy add to wishlist A story of two Red Cross directors, and their accomplishments, frustrations, romances, and the tragedies they witnessed and experienced. see all copies from $11.45! new only from $11.45! \| SVS
9	Quaker Adventures: Experiences of Twenty Three Adventurers in International Understanding more books like this by Edward Thomas (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.60! new only from $16.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Human Tradition in the World War II Era more books like this by Jr Muir, Malcolm Muir Jr, Malcolm Muir (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of brief biographical sketches presents the American experience in the World War II era by looking at the conflict through the ordeals of a broad array of men and women. The stories of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who served in the European and Pacific theaters are included here. Among the persons in uniform, subjects ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
11	The Home Guard: A Military and Political History more books like this by S P MacKenzie add to wishlist Today we laugh at 'Dad's Army', but in 1940 the threat of a German invasion of Britain was a very real one. S. P. MacKenzie's detailed and readable history of the Home Guard offers a new perspective on the men who took up the challenge. Despite its popular image of old men and teenagers playing soldiers, the Home Guard, often as large as the ... see all copies from $13.14! new only from $130.97! \| SVS
12 view cover	Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment) more books like this by Frances Martin Day (Editor), Phyllis Spence (Editor), Barbara Ladouceur (Editor) add to wishlist In these Red Cross memoirs, some 30 women tell their stories of volunteer work with the Canadian Red Cross Corps in overseas postings during World War Two and the Korean War. These dramatic narratives take us across oceans infested with enemy submarines to witness Canadian women on duty in the UK, in Europe and in Asia. The volunteers shouldered ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $24.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	With the armies of the tsar : a nurse at the Russian front, 1914-18 more books like this by Florence Farmborough add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	The Public Good: Philanthropy and Welfare in the Civil War Era more books like this by Robert Hamlett Bremner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Land Girls: In a Man's World 1939-1946 more books like this by Dianne Bardsley add to wishlist Drawing on interviews with 220 women who served as "land girls" during World War II, Bardsley (a Ph.D. candidate) relates an under-documented chapter in New Zealand's war experience. Like their Rosie the Riveter sisters, these Women's Land Service recruits gained independence, little recognition, and discontent about giving up their farm jobs when ... see all copies from $22.61! new only from $22.61!
16	Spy in the Vatican, 1941-45 more books like this by Branko Bokun add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $79.43! \| first editions
17 view cover	Passing on the Comfort more books like this by Lynn Kaplanian-Buller, An Keuning-Tichelaar add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.79! \| SVS
18 view cover	Drums Along the Antietam, more books like this by John W Schildt add to wishlist see all copies from $6.29! new only from $53.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Women at War more books like this by Brenda Williams add to wishlist What was it like to live and fight during World War II? This series uses a rich variety of illustrations and historical resources, such as newspaper extracts and other realities to provide a fascinating perspective of World War II. It includes timelines and "In the News" features and contains eyewitness accounts from people who were there. see all copies from $7.98! new only from $16.98! \| SVS
20 view cover	The crown of wild olive more books like this by John Ruskin add to wishlist This book is 6-volume boxed set of the social and economic works of John Ruskin. Smart's short pamphlet is a pioneering analysis of Ruskin's main ideas by a sympathizer who was also a trained economist of distinction. Hobson's book is a much more rigorous and extended analysis which tries hard to claim Ruskin for liberalism and is still one of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions
21	Nurse at the Russian Front : a diary, 1914-18 more books like this by Florence Farmborough add to wishlist see all copies from $14.82! first editions
22	Never too late more books like this by Margaret Chase add to wishlist see all copies from $2.69! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	With our soldiers in France more books like this by Sherwood Eddy add to wishlist Chapters include 'With General Pershing's Force', 'At the Front', 'the Camp of the Prodigals' and 'Religion at the Front' see all copies from $2.55! new only from $8.52! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Heroines of World War II more books like this by Eric Taylor add to wishlist The story of the World War II is the story of ordinary men and women performing extraordinary feats. Women played a part in the Allied conflict as spies, as ATS soldiers, as Waafs and Wrens, but their contribution has not been fully recognised. In this study, the author records the experience of many valiant women including Joanna Stavridi, "the ... see all copies from $3.99!
25	Something for Peace: A Memoir more books like this by Thomas Waring, Abigail W. Robbins (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.55! new only from $7.48! \| signed copies

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