world war ii
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PublishedJune 6, 2021
Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers
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PublishedMay 2, 2021
Wrestling with the strategy – and morality – of the firebombing of Japan
A single raid on Tokyo on a March 1945 night, led to a fire that killed 100,000 people.
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PublishedApril 11, 2021
A moving tale of a World War II ship that saw plenty of action
In 'Unsinkable,' James Sullivan traces the the 'indomitable' USS Plunkett and the men who sailed it.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
Bedside table: One way to take your mind off the pandemic? Read about a very different disaster
'In Harm's Way' tells of the USS Indianapolis, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in World War II, which lost three-quarters of her crew, many to shark attacks.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2021
Bedside Table: ‘Disconcerting similarities’ to Hitler’s rise
For this reader, Erik Larson's 'In the Garden of Beasts' evokes Trump's America.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2021
World War II’s less-famous fascist
History rates Mussolini a buffoon, reserving its opprobrium for Hitler. In 'Mussolini's War, Gooch gives Mussolini more 'credit.'
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PublishedDecember 31, 2020
Author’s journey connects her with Maine veteran and World War II pilot
Loretto Thompson says the more than 500 letters her father wrote during his service in the Army Air Corps led her to Roger Sundin, a.k.a. ‘Big Sundin,’ the man she credits with saving her father's life in May of 1945.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2020
Maine Voices: Shore leave welcome break for young sailors in World War II
A Mainer who served in the Pacific Theater remembers everyone sprucing up for time on liberty – and coming back to tell their tales.
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PublishedMay 24, 2020
Maine Voices: The example of Roosevelt and Willkie points the way for American renewal
The COVID-19 crisis is a time to rise above partisan rancor and nurture our embers of unity into a conflagration of common purpose.
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PublishedMay 8, 2020
World War II veterans mark V-E Day in Washington with Trump
Ranging in age from 96 to 100, they joined the president in a commemoration at the World War II Memorial.
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