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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
2) Catch-22
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Language
English
Description
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 926 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community" to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide
Already hailed as "a masterpiece" (William Grimes in The New York Times) and "the most comprehensive history… of the Third Reich" (Ian Kershaw), this epic trilogy reaches its terrifying...
6) The Pacific
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Language
English
Description
In this companion book to the HBO series on the war in the Pacific, historian Hugh Ambrose focuses on five American soldiers who each took an active role in the difficult and costly--in terms of lives--campaign to reach the Japanese mainland. Ambrose recounts key battles--Guadalcanal, Midway, Okinawa, and the lesser-known Peleliu--and he provides a soldier's eye view of the events, conveying the great valor and sacrifices of those in uniform.
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English
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From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed,...
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Series
Liberation trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how central the great drama that unfolded in North Africa was to the ultimate victory of the Allied powers and to America's understanding of itself.
10) World War II
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English
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Provides an eyewitness account of the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II, from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Be an eyewitness to the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II -- from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Discover how everyday items were reused for the war effort. See the way propaganda affected the minds of people. Find out why many Japanese soldiers would rather die than face capture. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets...
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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English
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"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
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English
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"1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. But when a grave mistake...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is Jeff Shaara at his best, giving us another superb [and] historically grounded novel of one of the most dramatic struggles of World War II.”—George McGovern
Utilizing the voices of the conflict’s most heroic figures, some immortal and some unknown, Jeff Shaara tells the story of America’s pivotal role in World War II: fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest...
Utilizing the voices of the conflict’s most heroic figures, some immortal and some unknown, Jeff Shaara tells the story of America’s pivotal role in World War II: fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest...
15) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
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Description
In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
16) Foyle's war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
UK broadcast ed. ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (400 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
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Description
English Detective Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the home front while he reluctantly sits out on World War II.
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English
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"[These] volumes are not only a chronicle of events. They are a record of meetings, debate, and disagreements with a world of people. Some were friends with whom [Winston S. Churchill] was forced to differ. Some were with opponents or future enemies with whom he nevertheless succeeded in making common cause, [Joseph] Stalin foremost among them. The descriptions of his personal relationships with these men ... assure[s] the permanent value of this...
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English
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"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
20) Hiroshima
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English
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima...
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