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Publisher
Leomark Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. POWs in WWII sent to Northern China by the Japanese, condemned to spend the rest of their lives working as slaves in factories. The men fight to survive brutal winters, disease, and even more brutal guards, while secretly resisting.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay;...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 616 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands, leading to one of the most suspenseful and shocking season...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approx. 631 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
66) In love and war
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story of courage, determination, and love in war-torn Italy. Eric Newby, a British lieutenant during WWII and a POW, escapes when Italy's fascist government collapses but must contend with German troops looking for him as he hides under the protection of an Italian family.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages 25 cm.
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war, they are caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of the Philippine Islands....
69) 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.
70) Rambo trilogy
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (293 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pt. 1]. An ex-Green Beret, a peacetime misfit is haunted by memories of Vietnam. Falling foul of an over-zealous small-town sheriff, all hell is let loose as he goes on the run. In the life or death manhunt that ensues, he will need all his old skills to stay alive and outwit his pursuers--the sheriff, his posse, and more than 200 National Guardsmen.
[Pt. 2]. Rambo is recruited for a highly secret and dangerous mission in the jungles of Vietnam to...
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...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (635 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a paranoid president facing investigation and the country tearing itself apart, Carrie and Saul must determine who they can trust in the gripping seventh season. As President Keane finds herself under threat from forces outside the government and within, Carrie embarks on a mission to unravel the truth and bring down a harrowing conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Description
"Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. He managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army two years later. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. Adrift in spirit, Joe visited a teenage prostitute, and they became unlikely, smitten allies. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941, their hopes of being together had to wait. Joe and his fellow...
Series
Criterion collection volume 480
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (574 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a pacifist in WWII-era Japan who struggles to resist corruption and dehumanization while living as a labor camp supervisor, soldier, and prisoner-of-war.
76) The Mauritanian
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
lii, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The author documents his imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a political prisoner, his torture and mistreatment at the hands of U.S. officials, and his court-ordered release in 2016 after never being charged with a crime.
77) Spoils: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already smoldering insurgency intent of making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come...Paris, around about now: Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo, above her botanical bookshop, La Maison Rustique. Life...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
556 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Ernt Allbright vuelve de la guerra de Vietnam convertido en un hombre distinto. Incapaz de mantener un trabajo, toma una decisión impulsiva: toda su familia comenzará una nueva vida en la salvaje Alaska, la última frontera. Con apenas 13 años, su hija Leni ansía encontrar su lugar en el mundo, mientras que su mujer, Cora, estaría dispuesta a cualquier cosa por el hombre al que ama, aunque eso signifique seguirle en su aventura hacia lo desconocido....
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Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
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