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1001) Paul Klee
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Discusses, in simple text, the life and work of the abstract painter, focusing on his use of color, shape, and symbolism.
1003) Ski troop attack
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Attempt at semi-documentary, describing how a U.S. ski patrol destroys a strategic Nazi bridge.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque--and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach...
1006) A single spy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted...
1007) Genocide
Pub. Date
c2004, 1981
Language
English
Description
The heart-wrenching, yet often heroic story of the millions of men, women, and children who fell victim to Hitler's Final Solution.
This film received the 1981 Academy Award for best feature documentary.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century, Lise Meitner had to fight for an education, a job, and equal treatment in her field, like having her name listed on her own research papers. Meitner made groundbreaking strides in the study of radiation, but when Hitler came to power in Germany, she suddenly had to face not only sexism, but also life-threatening anti-Semitism as well. Nevertheless, she persevered and one day made...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Nazi Saboteurs, Samantha Seiple brings readers into the high-stakes world of Hitler's most trusted team of saboteurs as the eight men are hand-selected by top Nazi officials to be trained in spycraft and sabotage. With black-and-white photos and fast-paced storytelling, readers follow the men to the coasts of New York and Florida, where they work to establish secret identities for themselves in America, identify the country's key military targets,...
1011) Auschwitz: a new history
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents over one hundred interviews from Auschwitz survivors and their Nazi captors that reveal first-hand accounts of the inner workings of the infamous death camp, their techniques of mass murder, and the decisions by Nazi leaders to use Auschwitz as its primary site for the extinction of European Jews.
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during dark times -- as Ollie loses his only friend, Liz, to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competed as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field, and was feted as America's Golden Girl-- until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her, and risks everything to join the Olympic team. From Missouri, tomboyish...
1016) Sword of Gideon
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A Mossad team is hand picked to hunt down the surviving militants involved in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June 1941. It describes Hitler and Stalin’s strange, calculating, and miscalculating relationship before the German invasion of Soviet Russia, with its gigantic (and unintended) consequences. John Lukacs questions many long-held beliefs; he suggests, for example, that among other things Hitler’s...
1018) The hunters and the hunted: the elimination of German surface warships around the world 1914-15
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
1020) Prelude to War
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Edie & Carl Schmidt didn't think things would get worse at school..before the German navy began blowing American ships out of the water...
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