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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Documents the contributions of more than ten thousand American women who served as codebreakers during World War II, detailing how their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and enabled their subsequent careers.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus traveled to Nazi Germany to save a group of Jewish children. In this account, that draws from Kraus's unpublished memoir, rare historical documents, and interviews with more than a dozen surviving children, a story of personal courage and heroism comes to light.
Author
Language
English
Description
Near the end of 1939, ten-year-old Audrey Hepburn flew from boarding school in England into the Netherlands, which would soon become a war zone. What she experienced in five years of Nazi occupation has never been explored until now. Dutch Girl sets the story straight, revealing the Nazi past of Audrey's parents and how their daughter dealt with this information. The book examines her career as an acclaimed young ballerina, her involvement with the...
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Presents thirty-two stories of women from Germany, Poland, Great Britain, and the United States who heroically risked their lives to defeat the Nazis during World War II.
Author
Language
English
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Description
1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader...
Author
Series
World War II trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. As American commanders respond to the...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the events surrounding the United States entering World War II in December of 1941. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a young mother in the work force, a wounded African American veteran, or as a young California boy helping to end prejudice against Japanese citizens.
74) Lily's crossing
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, as Japanese forces surprised Americans at the U.S. military base, and explains the significance of the attack today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a Japanese pilot, a U.S. sailor, and an American nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories in their own words of several of the thousands of Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940 and brought to new homes in the United Kingdom. Memoir pieces, poems, photographs, and other primary sources bring their stories to life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An accomplished agent in the British Army, Basil St. Florian embarks on his toughest assignment yet as he, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, searches for an ecclesiastic manuscript that holds the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...