20th century

"Hall of Fame New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for . . . the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with . . . manager Billy Martin, . . . owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson to Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter . . . --Provided by publisher.

Examines the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s as an organization of white, Protestant, native-born citizens who combined Christian values with racial bigotry to become a major political force.

In the South Pacific in 1944 and 1945, military battles raged between the United States and Japan. Surrounded by rattling bullets and exploding bombs, a group of Navajo Marines sent secret messages back and forth. They used a code they had created from the Navajo language, a code the enemy was never able to crack. These young men had been recruited from their homes in the American Southwest. They brought with them incredible physical stamina and a language that had never been written down. Learn more about the Navajo code talkers---brave, creative heroes who used their unbreakable code to help the Allies win the war.

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.

Reveals daily life in the White House by the household employees.

"This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army"--Provided by publisher.

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy"--NoveList.

This book takes a closer look at how NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain played a role in the sharp political division between the West and East.

"The untold story of five young American friends who left the ivory towers at Harvard and Dartmouth to take on the Nazis ..."--Back cover.