Tag: WWII
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! August
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/09/14/2024-adult-reading-challenge-august/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
The Fire and the Darkness: the Bombing of Dresden, 1945
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/03/11/the-fire-and-the-darkness-the-bombing-of-dresden-1945/
THE FIRE AND THE DARKNESS: THE BOMBING OF DRESDEN, 1945 by Sinclair McKay February 13, 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Germany by British and American bombers. Carried out in 3 raids, it was one of the most devastating attacks...
The Splendid and the Vile
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/02/21/the-splendid-and-the-vile/
THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson Erik Larson is always my go-to author for narrative non-fiction. His newest, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, focuses on Winston Churchill, and those around him, during the Blitz. There has been plenty written about the...