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22) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Examines the historical events that the Magic Tree House book "World at War, 1944" is based on, discussing the causes of the war and D-Day and providing photographs and illustrations.
23) Lifeboat
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
Description
The definitive visual history looks at this epic war from every angle, tracing the course of military, strategic, and political events across the globe, and documenting the experiences of combatants and civilians.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
26) Number the stars
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Description
In 1943, during the German occupation of Demark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
The girls came from every corner of the Soviet Union. With their country on its knees, and millions of its men already dead, wounded, or in captivity, thousands of Soviet women were trained as snipers. Nothing could have prepared them for the brutality of their new existence. From diaries, letters, interviews with survivors, and unpublished material from Soviet military archives, Vinogradova has made an unforgettable record of their experiences: the...
28) Ordinary heroes
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Description
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiance?e, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd...
29) The statement
Publisher
distribtued by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An escaped Nazi collaborator is the target of an ambitious judge, a scrupulous colonel and two mysterious hit men.
Author
Description
At the dawn of the Second World War, In?s is the young wife of Michel, owner of the House of Chauveau, a small champagne winery nestled among rolling vineyards near Reims, France. Marrying into a storied champagne empire was supposed to be a dream come true, but In?s feels increasingly isolated, purposely left out of the business by her husband; his chef de cave, Theo; and Theo's wife, Sarah. But these disappointments pale in comparison to the increasing...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
lvi, 712 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
A comprehensive history of World War II analyzes the factors that affected the war's outcome and presents stories of many little-known individuals whose experiences displayed the epitome of courage and self-sacrifice.
33) World War II
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
319 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
35) Spy: a novel
Author
Description
"At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her...
36) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Formats
Description
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
322 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
An in-depth history of the Battle of Britain draws on the firsthand perspectives of pilots, ground crews, and commanders on both sides, and places the campaign against a backdrop of the political forces that shaped it.
38) Inside WWII
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Day by day. Hour by hour. Second by second. This is the story of last century's bloodiest conflict told in a concise and compelling 3 hour special. Includes personal accounts, strategic analysis and rare footage and provides a new and intimate perspective on the experience of war.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....
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Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the date Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina's tiny rural village, its...
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