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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Udine, Italy: A decades-old murder investigation has landed on Superintendent Teresa Battaglia's desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days of World War II contains tissue from a human heart. Teresa is able to trace the evidence to Val Resia, one of Italy's most isolated, untouched regions. When Teresa's investigation hits too close to the truth, a fresh human heart is hung at the valley's entrance, a clear warning. As she...
4) Proud
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
5) Fateless
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Fourteen-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary, as he is sent to a concentration camp, where he is forced to become a man, and learns to find happiness in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
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
"When Nancy Harkness Love took her very first airplane ride, she fell in love with being in flight...From that first plane ride at age sixteen, to leading the first Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) during World War II, and becoming a part of the groundbreaking Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Nancy's skills were in demand. Though the path was sometimes bumpy, Nancy ultimately helped pave the way for other femaile pilots to soar."--
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine star in this taut drama of a World War II veteran whose return to his Indiana hometown catalyzes change among people whose failures and frustrations have built up the point of explosion in SOME CAME RUNNING. Dave Hirsh (Sinatra--From Here to Eternity) has faced the horror of war and endured the disillusionment of trying to make a living as a writer. When he returns to Parktown, Indiana, Hirsh...
10) The Big Red One
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
In one of the most powerful films ever made about World War II, director Samuel Fuller tells the semi-autobiographical story of a squad of sharpshooters trying not to die in THE BIG RED ONE. World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Academy Award winner Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from...
11) Summer of '42
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
For three teenage boys spending a lonely summer on the beach in New England, it was the summer they learned about life, the summer they became men, the SUMMER OF '42. World War II. Fifteen-year-old, sensitive Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his friends Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benjie (Oliver Conant), the "terrible trio," spend the long summer days dreaming of and ogling girls. But Hermie has his eye on an older woman, 22-year-old, married Dorothy (Jennifer...
12) Without Love
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a married couple who believe they have found the secret to wedded bliss: They share common passions but have decided to live together WITHOUT LOVE. Washington, D.C. World War II. Pat Jamieson (Tracy--Father of the Bride, Inherit the Wind) and Jamie Rowan (Hepburn--The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story) have both loved and lost. Independently, they have decided to forgo romance for...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson and Academy Award winning producer Odessa Rae, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since World War II. Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other celebrated creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a Post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive, authoritative account of the amazing rise and tragic fall of Preston Tucker, the visionary entrepreneur who, in the wake of World War II, took on the Big Three automakers to create a revolutionary new vehicle: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality. Thomas Jefferson was the first former president to accomplish great things after the White House, shaping public debates and founding the University of Virginia, an accomplishment...
16) 3 Days in Malay
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A small group of Marines stationed at an airfield must defend it against an invading Japanese onslaught during World War II. Suffering from major casualties and running out of ammunition, they must fight back the continuous assault until reinforcements come to their rescue and end the three-day siege.
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