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Growing up Patton

2012
Benjamin Patton, documentary filmmaker and grandson of World War II general George S. Patton, Jr., explores his family legacy and reveals personal correspondence written between 1939 and 1945 between his father and grandfather. Benjamin's father became a respected and decorated hero of both the Korean and Vietnam wars and, as he rose to major general, he also proved himself just as brave, flamboyant, flawed, and inspiring as his father had been.

I shall live

surviving the Holocaust against all odds
2010
Henry Orenstein, a member of a Jewish family living in Poland during World War II, managed to save himself and his brothers. When they end up in a series of concentration camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking prevent them from being executed by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command, including Henrich Himmler.

I love you, Ronnie

the letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
2002

Dottie Wiltse Collins

strikeout queen of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
2005
Chronicles the life of Dottie Wiltse, a star softball player from Southern California, who came to the Minneapolis Millerettes in 1944 and went on to become one of the dominant players in the AAGPBL.

Nancy Reagan

the unauthorized biography
1991
Biography of Nancy Reagan from her childhood to Hollywood starlet and finally becoming Ronald Reagan's truest ally.

Promises to keep

1993
This Holocaust survivor tells what happened in the camps and details his life after escaping from the Nazis and making his way to the United States.

My turn

the memoirs of Nancy Reagan
1989
The former first lady reveals her influence in the Reagan administration and her relationships with her husband and children.

Six days in Havana

1989
Text and photos record James Michener's and John King's impressions of Havana thirty years after the Revolution.

Chuck Yeager, the man who broke the sound barrier

a science biography
1988
A biography of the Air Force test pilot who in 1947 was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Henry Kissinger, world statesman

1975
A biography of the celebrated and controversial Secretary of State whose diplomatic missions have brought hope of peace to many parts of the world.

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