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Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
"A picture book biography about Nancy Harkness Love, the first female to serve for the Army Air Force and instrumental in founding the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) in World War II. Perfect for readers of Fly Girl, Fly!: Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World, Herstory or Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine"--
1982) Soul lanterns
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
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...
1985) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel,Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
1986) Dogfight over Tokyo
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This French drama chronicles the impact of World War II German occupation on a small village in central France. As the residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
1988) The last hours in Paris
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1963 Brittany, 18-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a shocking secret about her mother that leads her to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom--and of a betrayal so deep, it changed two young lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xix, 524 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.
1990) Kiss them for me
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperate to keep his men on the straight and narrow while on a 4-day leave from the Navy, a Lieutenant commits a trio to becoming spokesmen at a local shipyard. Before long, one is courting the shipmaker's voluptuous daughter with hilarious results.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
583 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The OffenbachArchival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
1992) The first wave
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
1994) 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.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (612 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
1996) 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...
1997) Churchill's bodyguard: the newly discovered story of the man who stood watch over Britain's hero
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (10 hr., 11 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Winston Churchill's personal bodyguard for nearly 18 years, Walter H. Thompson saw history unfold firsthand. This program is based on the complete, uncensored manuscript of Walter H. Thompson, a Scotland Yard detective. This video gives you a behind the scenes look at the life and leadership of Winston Churchill.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
253 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
1999) Sira=: Sira
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
727 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. Entre hechos históricos que marcarán...
2000) The counterfeit countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
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...
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