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Public Library highlights dramatic historic moments in recent books
The Long Beach Public Library showcases titles on world wars and ancient struggles. Books recount the Lusitania sinking, D-Day, Dunkirk, the Titanic disaster, the American Revolution, Civil War events, and modern expeditions, with vivid hour by hour and dramatic narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dhat
A. A. Hoehling
Lusitania
Long
Florence Powers
Department of the Library
Thomas Gallagher
Morro’ Castle
Alvin
Moscow
Stockholm
Andrea Doria
Powlision
Lers
Walter Lord
Pearl Harbor
John Turner
Normandy
Dunkirk
David Divine
Walter Lard
Miss Powers
Cornel Lengyle
Donald Chidsey
William” Diamond
Arthur Tourtellot
Valley Forge
Lon Tinkle
Irving Werstein
New York City
Johnstown
Richard O'Connor
Conesmaugh Lake
Pennsylvania
Robert Cromie
Cmdr
W. R. Anderson
Vivien Fuchs
Edmund Hillary
Jim Bishop
Christ