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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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
Series
Scandal Mountain Antiques mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vermont antique dealer Edie Brown teams up with Uncle Tuck and Kala to investigate the background of an unsettling collage by a famed, reclusive artist known only as Vespa, and uncovers secrets more disturbing than the artwork itself.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
August, 1944: US Army Captain Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans to German leaders in occupied Paris. The Resistance is also hot on his trail, and out for blood, after Atlantik's previous betrayals led to the death of many of their members. But the plans Atlantik carries were leaked on purpose, a ruse devised by a colonel to obscure the Allied army's real intentions...
Publisher
ITV Global Entertainment Limited
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (ca. 22 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shot down by enemy fire, RAF Squadron Leader Jimmy Porter joins forces with French Resistance fighters to get back to England. Jimmy is recruited to assist French agent Vincent, get Nina, a young woman with vitally important facts about the Resistance locked in her head, out of the country.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 388 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"At the height of World War II, France is occupied and all of England is in peril. Col. James "Cad" Cadogan will use any means necessary to get the intelligence he needs, even sending civilians to work undercover behind enemy lines. Based on the real-life stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive, this suspenseful drama series follows wife and mother Liz Grainger and half-Jewish factory girl Matty Firman from training in...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 505 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter's infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis' plans for a "Final Solution" before it was too late." -- inside front jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special Operations Executive, the collection of British spies, beloved...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"1941, Nazi-occupied Paris: In the glamorous Ritz hotel there is a woman with a dangerous secret... As Coco Chanel's assistant, Adèle lives side by side with German officers in the splendour of The Ritz hotel. But Adèle has a secret. She is working for the resistance, right under the Germans' noses. As occupied Paris becomes more and more dangerous, Adèle will have to decide if she can risk everything to save innocent lives and protect the man...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Catherine Dior, Christian Dior's younger sister, that illuminates the work of the most iconic designer of the postwar world-her brother, Christian-and casts new light on the overlooked life of a quietly courageous, quietly extraordinary woman"--
91) The White Rabbit
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1953 [c1952]
Physical Desc
262 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
92) HHhH: roman
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 32178
Publisher
Grasset
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
Français
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xi, 409 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kenneth Slepyan provides an enlightening social and political history of the Soviet partisan movement, a people's army of irregulars fighting behind enemy lines. These insurgents included not only civilians - many of them women - but also stranded Red Army soldiers, national minorities, and even former collaborators. While others have documented the military contributions of the movement, Slepyan is the first to describe it as a social phenomenon...
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009], ©1988
Edition
DVD format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 388 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the height of World War II, France is occupied and all of England is in peril. Col. James "Cad" Cadogan will use any means necessary to get the intelligence he needs, even sending civilians to work undercover behind enemy lines. Based on the real-life stories of women recruited by Britain's Special Operations Executive, this suspenseful drama series follows wife and mother Liz Grainger and half-Jewish factory girl Matty Firman from training in...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and timely debut novel by award-winning nonfiction writer Buzzy Jackson based on a true story of the life of the heroic Hannie Schaft: a young Dutch woman who joined the Resistance in Holland during World War II and became one of the Nazis' most lethal adversaries. Hannie Schaft, a young woman living in Nazi-occupied Holland, never intended to be a fighter. Her dream was to finish law school in Amsterdam and join the League of Nations....
98) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get it into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Natzi efforts, and into increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight...
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