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2) Two women
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
In Italy during WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between them and the horrors of war.
Author
Series
Women spies in WWII volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As the free world crumbles beneath Hitler's jackboot, the French Resistance is depending on these women to change the course of history... The beautiful and fearless Christine Granville is one of the first females to be hired by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Together with her one-legged lover, Andrew--and much to the chagrin of her husband--she operates in Budapest, Istanbul, and Cairo. But even Christine, Churchill's favorite spy, will...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
He will stay in Auschwitz to the bitter end if it means his brother might survive. Poland, 1940. Moshe and his family flee their hometown of Warsaw in a desperate bid for survival as Nazi forces advance on the city. Hiding under false identities, they hope to wait out the end of the war, which must surely be near.But nowhere is truly safe for Poland's Jews, and soon Moshe and his brother find themselves en route to Auschwitz, from where no one returns....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part...
9) Flat top
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Barney Smith ignored the signals of the landing officer the first day he arrived on the aircraft carrier and for two years he has begged to be allowed to fly a mission against the Japanese over the Pacific. As the Japanese air force downs most of the squadron, the suspended ace is restored to duty and must win back his commander's respect in a ferocious battle for honor and glory.
10) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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 Offenbach Archival 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, one war and an extraordinary family secret. 1939. In the nation's hour of need, brave sisters Patricia and Jean Owtram answered the call of duty. With their fierce intelligence and steely determination, these remarkable young women would stop at nothing to help crack the Enigma code, support Allied troops, and defeat the Nazis. Their top-secret mission would finally see the tide of war turn in Britain's favour... This is their incredible...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
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 have given 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...
16) 1941
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This comedy is set in Los Angeles days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the fear of a Japanese invasion hung over the city.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in Poland during World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"During World War II, families all across Europe huddled together in basements, attics, and closets as Nazi soldiers rounded up anyone Jewish. The Star of David, a symbol of faith and pride, became a tool of hate when the Nazis forced Jewish people to carry papers stamped with that star, so that it was clear who to capture. But many brave souls dared to help them. Jewish teenager Jacqueline Gauthier, a member of the French Resistance who had to conceal...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history. Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The...
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