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141) Hangmen also die
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda enlists the aid of a young woman who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her in Czechoslovakia. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father and fiance in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (762 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fall in line for a second hilarious season of laughs, starring the ragtag band of World War II POWs.
The bumbling Germans give Hogan and his crew plenty of opportunities to continue their war resistance movements right from their POW war cells. The prison's colonel, Klink, is more concerned with having everything run smoothly and avoiding any trouble with his superiors (especially anything that might result in his being reassigned and sent to the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxv, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front in modern day Ukraine. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Soviets viewed POWs as cowards, and regarded all refugees as potential spies or partisans. The United States repeatedly offered to help recover their POWs, but were refused. With relations between the allies strained, a plan was conceived for an...
144) The safest lie
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
A nine-year-old Jewish girl, helped by Irena Sendler and the Zegota organization, is smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, given a new identity, and sent to live in the countryside for the duration of the World War II.
145) The diplomat's wife
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"1945. Marta Nederman has barely survived the brutality of a Nazi concentration camp, where she was imprisoned for her work with the Polish resistance. Lucky to have escaped with her life, she meets Paul, an American soldier, who gives her hope of a happier future. The two make a promise to meet in London, but Paul is in a deadly plane crash and never arrives. Finding herself pregnant and alone in a strange city, Marta finds comfort with a kind British...
146) The watcher
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, teenaged Wendy is transported from Maine to wartime Berlin, where she secretly supports the resistance movement and learns a family secret.
147) Jackdaws
Author
Publisher
Peguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
401, 11 pages ; 22 cm
Description
D-Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity "Flick" Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain's most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans' ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications,...
Publisher
SDS Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (540 min.) : sound, color, black and white, sepia ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
charming film based...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
"To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up for a second World War, this fearless woman knew that she...
150) Artifice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust havegiven rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children.Florence was an unlikely warrior. She...
153) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever. Woven...
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