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Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
302 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 464 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time, the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense chase as Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
10) The yard dog
Author
Series
Hook Runyon mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 292 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Set in Oklahoma during World War II. When Spark Dugan, a "coal picker," is found dead in the rail yards that are close to a Nazi POW camp, local detective Hook Runyon decides Dugan's death is murder. He begins an investigation that quickly becomes dangerous, and little is as it first seems.
11) No better friend: one man, one dog, and their extraordinary story of courage and survival in WWII
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : map, illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"[T]ells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII. Judy was a fiercely loyal animal who sensed danger and instinctively mistrusted anyone in enemy uniform. Their relationship deepened throughout their imprisonment. The prisoners suffered severe beatings which Judy would interrupt with her barking. The dog became a beacon for the men, who saw in her survival...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; cm
Description
"In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioners Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictators evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Trained to aggressively confront the enemy in combat, the men learn, shortly after being deployed to Iraq, that fate has assigned them...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Drawing on an astonishing archive of letters, which revealed life during wartime, a true story follows a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter and underground war hero who spent two years in three concentration camps during World War II.
14) Rose under fire
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Author
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvii, 228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
469 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese- American relations and changed legal history.
19) German prisoners of war at Camp Cooke, California: personal accounts of fourteen soldiers, 1944-1946
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; cm
Description
"In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler's soldier's came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army's training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California's...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
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