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521) Sangre azul
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Londres, 1943. Las bombas caen sobre la ciudad y el rey y la reina deciden enviar a su hija menor a vivir en el campo con una familia de confianza. Tercera en la línea de sucesión al trono, la princesa Charlotte, de diecisiete años, acepta a regañadientes usar un nombre falso a su llegada a Yorkshire.
Pronto, Charlotte empieza a disfrutar de su nueva libertad y de su pasión por los caballos, y comienza a sentirse atraída por el hijo de sus protectores....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the Americanleader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
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 of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family’s Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are...
526) Flags of our fathers
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
527) La casa de los niños
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...
528) The fervor: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across battlefields. Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these brave and intelligent men developed their amazing code,...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (5 hrs., 4 mins.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes there, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp--Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But...
531) Going solo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the [Special Operations Executive (SOE)] to 'set Europe ablaze.' The agents infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming local French r�esistants to attack the German war machine. SOE would not only change the...
533) The longest day
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (178 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view - the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites of France.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxi, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps....
535) Pearl Harbor
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A highly-designed and illustrated (including graphic novel panels) overview the truths and lies about the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
536) Inglourious basterds
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
537) 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"--
538) Lily
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Wales, a strawberry roan Welsh pony named Lily and her rider Gwen are Pony Club members who enjoy competing in gymkhana games, but the start of World War II brings changes to their routine and a new member to the Pony Club--a prickly girl named Bridget, sent to the country to escape the threat of bombings in London.
Publisher
Chris Simon
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Veterans History Project honors our nation's war veterans and those who supported them. This project, created by Congress, is building a lasting legacy of memoirs, recorded interviews, and other documents chronicling the veterans' and other citizens' wartime experiences, and how those experiences affected their lives and America itself. The Veterans History Project pledges to preserve this history for generations to come. Veterans from World War...
Author
Series
Elena Standish volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. And young Elena Standish, to her surprise, is the only one who can recognize MI6's man--because he's her former lover. Aiden Strother betrayed her six years before, throwing shame on her entire family. Now, with so much to prove, Elena heads to Trieste to track down Aiden...
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