The First Sentence Reader

Books that grab you right from the start.

Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Soaring to Glory

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Handleman, Philip .  Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II . Washington DC: Regnery History 2019 . Pri...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The Navajo Code Talkers

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Paul, Doris A.  The Navajo Code Talkers . Pittsburgh: Dorrance 19739 . Print. First Sentences: Every syllable of my message came through. So...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

We Die Alone

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  Howarth, David. We Die Alone . Guilford, CT: Lyons Press 1955 . Print. First Sentences: Even at the end of March, on th...
Monday, December 16, 2019

The Volunteer

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Fairweather, Jack.  The Volunteer: One Man', An Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz . New York: HarperCollins ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

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Hillman, Robert.  The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted . New York: Putnam 2018 . Print First Sentences: She didn't stay l...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Every Man a Hero

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Lambert, Ray.  Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War . New York: HarperCollins 2019 . Prin...
Monday, November 21, 2016

The Secret Life of Codebreakers

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McKay, Sinclair.  The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park . New York: Plume. 2012...
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Call me Fred. I am a retired librarian from The Ohio State University and an avid, yet selective and highly judgmental reader who is under no illusion a book will get better in its writing style, plot, or characters after a disappointing first few sentences. However, the books profiled in this blog are, in every way, wonderful reads.
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