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61) Warlight
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English
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The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the...
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The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by...
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre ḿove from Paris to Provence to care for Andre'́s grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker, and a friend of Pissarro and Ceźanne who traded frames for paintings. When war breaks out, Andre h́ides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazi's reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
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Night soldiers volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
239 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
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English
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Nicholas Morath works in a Paris advertising agency, but he travels on a Hungarian diplomatic passport and, when called upon by his uncle Janos, a powerful and shadowy figure, he begins to undertake missions which draw him into the complex world of 1930s European politics and war
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English
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard...
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"From present day Viareggio to Glasgow during World War II, a multigenerational sweeping tale of love lost, family secrets, and reconciliation over decades from New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani"--
Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood...
70) The hiding place
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English
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The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now repackaged for a new generation.
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Liberation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Edition
Abridged /
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. cm.
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English
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In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great...
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Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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As Nazi planes dominated the British sky, 18-year-old Lily Verner made a terrible mistake that she's spent decades trying to forget. But now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside and her family's textile mill.
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition.
Physical Desc
354 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
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English
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After sending their men off to fight in the war, sisters Kitty and Louise Heaney join their flirtatious younger sister, Tish, in writing letters to servicemen overseas, in a study of life during World War II from the perspective of the young men on the battlefield and the women left behind on the home front.
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Series
Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Adolf Hitler has lashed out with an impossible order--kidnap Winston Churchill or kill him. A disgraced war hero is assigned the suicidal mission.
76) The cruel sea
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Series
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xvii, 426 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys during World War II. Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat-and-mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves. Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter and chilling...
77) Lily's crossing
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
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English
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Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm. Then Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her the real Berlin,...
80) The unlikely spy
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Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
481 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Catherine Blake, a beautiful aristocrat who appears to be a model war widow is also a deep-cover Nazi spy, working to uncover the details of D-Day, but her actions do not go unnoticed, and she finds herself pursued by fumbling history professor Alfred Vicary--the head of England's critical counterintelligence operations.
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