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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs -- and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war -- brutal,...
3) Sea prayer
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A short, powerful, illustrated book written by beloved novelist Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from...
Author
Series
Edda of burdens volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A last surviving member of the ancient Valkyries race returns to the last surviving city on her dying world to reclaim a sword of power owned by her lost brothers and sisters, an effort that is challenged by a hunting Mingan the Wolf.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vi, 465 pages ; 24 cm
Description
British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. In...
6) Catch-22
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Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base. This satirical, historical novel is set during the later stages of World War II from 1944 onwards. It has a distinctive non-chronological style where events are described from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
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A war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871?1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound?a "red badge of courage"?to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again--tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris...
Author
Description
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
10) Death and honor
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
470 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group.
11) Grenade
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Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
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Description
"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
13) The lost stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
422 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
ix, 517 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
"From the beloved author of Schindler's List, a magnificent, epic novel of two sisters, both nurses during World War I, that has been hailed as perhaps "the best novel of Keneally's career" (The Spectator)"--
15) Gearbreakers
Author
Series
Gearbreakers volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
405 pages; 21 cm
Description
In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are figting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
Author
Publisher
Blume
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Description
La discordia entre los elefantes y los rinocerontes amenaza con llevar a todos a la guerra..., pero el rey Babar itiene su propio plan!
Discord between the elephants and the rhinoceroses threatens to lead to war, but King Babar has a plan of his own.
18) For such a time
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Formats
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"A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself"--
19) Potsdam Station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Assaulted by Allied bombs and ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin in 1945 has become the most dangerous place on earth. British journalist John Russell hasn't heard from hhis family since he fled Germany in 1941. His son, Paul, is stationed on the Eastern Front with the remnants of the German Army. Russell's girlfriend, Effi, the former film star, has been living in disguise, helping Jews and political fugitives escape the Third Reich. Even...
Author
Series
World War I novels volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
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