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3081) Muriel's war
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"An American heiress turned resistance hero, Muriel Gardiner was an electrifying woman who impressed everyone she met with her beauty, intelligence, and powerful personality. Her adventurous life led her from Chicago's high society to a Viennese medical school, from Sigmund Freud's inner circle to the Austrian underground. Over the years, she saved countless Jews and anti-fascists, providing shelter and documents ensuring their escape. This remarkable...
3082) The great generals
Publisher
St. Clair Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
pc2007
Language
English
Description
"This series of biographies showcases the brilliance of America's top military leaders during WWII. Perhaps no other nation produced such a large number of charismatic, competent and legendary generals as the United States. The lives of General George S. Patton, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George Marshall and others are documented in this absorbing series that chronicles their humble beginnings right through their most famous accomplishments"--Container...
3083) Grass
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering...
3084) Maggie's war
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In "Grandmothers, our grandmothers" the "comfort women" of the Japanese Imperial Army share their personal stories with us and give us their testimony. Alongside passionate advocates from younger generations, they protest on a weekly basis-- speaking for all victims of war and violations of human rights. In this book, writer and artist Han Seong-won depicts the ongoing crusade of some of war's most courageous survivor women. These women were forced...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something...
3089) Run and hide
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A . . . nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.
In the tightening grip of Hitler's power, towns, cities, and ghettoes were emptied of Jews. Unless they could escape, Jewish children would not be spared their deadly fate in the Holocaust, a tragedy of unfathomable depth. Only 11% of the Jewish children living in Europe before...
3091) Gingersnap
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
It's 1944, and WWII is raging. Jayna's big brother Rob is her only family. When Rob is called to duty on a destroyer, Jayna is left in their small town in upstate New York with their cranky landlady. But right before he leaves, Rob tells Jayna a secret: they may have a grandmother in Brooklyn. Rob found a little blue recipe book with her name and an address for a bakery. When Jayna learns that Rob is missing in action, she's devastated
Author
Series
Killing volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
Author
Series
Sandman mystery theatre volume 8
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this series of noir detective tales of intrigue, bigotry and incest, millionaire Wesley Dodds takes on the costumed persona of the Sandman in 1930s New York donning a gas mask, fedora, business suit and cape to fight the forces of evil. In this eighth volume, in the early days of World War II, the Sandman finds himself drawn into international intrigue when a brash young Polish pilot petitions him to finance the resistance efforts overseas. But...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
3096) Sisters of night and fog
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set across the European theatre of WWII, Sisters of Night and Fog tells the story of two women whose clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbruck concentration camp. A striking reminder of how deeply we are all connected, which forces us to ask, 'Could I have done what they did?'"--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Jerusalem is the story of a single family--three generations of very different people--as they are swept up in the chaos of nation-making from 1940 to 1948. Love, death, faith, family, and politics form the perilous mix that fuels this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel about the events surrounding the creation of the modern Israeli state"--Dust jacket flap.
3099) Victory parade
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"One of a group of women working as welders in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rose Arensberg has fallen in love with a disabled veteran while awaiting the return of her husband, Sam, a soldier in the American army serving in Europe. As we follow the bittersweet, heartbreaking stories of Rose and her fellow Rosie-the-Riveters, we're immersed in the day-to-day challenges of life on the home front as seen through the eyes of these resilient women, as well as...
3100) A family secret
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While searching his Dutch grandmother's attic for yard sale items, Jeroen finds a scrapbook which leads Gran to tell of her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, when her father was a Nazi sympathizer and Esther, her Jewish best friend, disappeared.
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