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21) The red collar
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, a young extraordinarily intelligent woman works the land the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is traveling...
23) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Haunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. Richard Flanagan's story ? of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife ? journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside...
25) Time limit
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a former prisoner of war confesses to collaborating with the enemy, his lawyer becomes suspicious of the confession and decides to investigate and find the truth.
Author
Formats
Description
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
31) Task force Baum
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Formats
Description
"March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how unpredictable and uncertain warfare can be. "--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
463 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become...
34) The keeper
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a German POW is signed to the Manchester football club as a goalie, the public outcry from fans -- especially Jews -- is overwhelming. With the support of Rabbi Alexander Altmann and the British woman he loves, together they overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy.
Author
Formats
Description
"Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II?s American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately?victory. The Philippines, 1941: Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 Eastern front) than with being tough on Hogan and his fellow prisoners. Hogan and his men cause as much...
38) Rolling thunder
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp, Maj. Charles Rane is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that Rane received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife and son for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance....
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (672 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs have a whole new season of subterfuge to unleash on the German war machine and the POW camp's incompetent commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz.
40) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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