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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures...
2) The fox
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Adrian Goiginger's great-grandfather.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
vi, 401 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
4) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; A Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that will change the world forever--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 892 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and their fellow victors, the questions of justice seemed clear: Japan's leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against citizens in China, the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere; rampant abuses of POWs....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
568 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Garza thrives in her unconventional, service-oriented life. By day, she helps troubled teens in inner-city Little Rock . . . by night, she creates a viral web series when she tries to better understand her mother's desperate decisions by retracing her steps with a camera. So far, Olivia has always been the anonymous narrator, but she's promised to reveal herself in the last stop on her documentary: Kenya. Prince Louis, heir to the throne of...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations for the three generations of the Hymers family are real, and the pressures create tensions...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
LA GRANDEZA HUMANA PUEDE SURGIR ENTRE LAS RUINAS DE LA GUERRA
Ámsterdam, 1942. En Holanda ya ondea la bandera nazi y miles de judíos aguardan el día de su deportación en lugares como el Teatro Hollandsche Shouwburg. El profesor Johan van Hulst es testigo de las condiciones en las que esperan los niños judíos, atemorizados y sin sustento, y es incapaz de quedarse impasible ante tanto sufrimiento.
SALVAR LA VIDA DE CIENTOS DE NIÑOS FUE SU LEGADO
Para...
11) Island of spies
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, twelve-year-old Stick Lawson and her two best friends, Rain and Neb, set out to discover the Nazi spies they believe are helping orchestrate U-boat attacks on American ships off the coast of Hatteras Island"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary gives a new perspective of a critical period in 1940. With Britain in crisis after a devastating defeat in Europe, these are the key moments that lead to WWII's most famous battle and the moment the Allies stepped in to save a nation. Brought to you by a renowned War production house behind the VE Day: In Colour films for Channel 4 and UKTV, this film reveals untold stories from across Europe about the turning point of WWII. Expert...
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