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1) Land of mine
Publisher
Columbia Tristar
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 650
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
11) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a British boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
15) The railway man
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Eric Lomax, a British officer who was captured by the Japanese and sent to a Thai POW camp during World War II.
17) The great escape
Series
Criterion collection volume 1027
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
The true story of seventy-six allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II.
18) The railway man
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime...
20) The yard dog
Author
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.
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