“I’m reading Menachem Kaiser’s ‘Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure,’ about a young man’s effort to reclaim a building in a small Polish town that was owned by his family members before they were deported to Nazi death camps. His grandfather – who survived the Holocaust – died before the author was […]
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Under the shadow of World War II, an ordinary family’s extraordinary impact
Told through remarkable correspondences, ‘The Weidners in Wartime’ tracks one family’s path to Resistance heroism.
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Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers
“I recently finished reading ‘Symphony for the City of the Dead’ by M.T. Anderson and winner of several awards. This book was chosen by my book club and was based on the true story of Soviet-Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who used his musical talents to bring hope to the people of his country during the […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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