Sabine Zuur, a young Dutch resistance fighter, spent over two years in three concentration camps during WWII. This true story is told by her daughter who used an archive of letters.
World War, 1939-1945
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Auteur:Hill-Lehr, AndriaSommaire:Even as a young girl growing up in Nova Scotia, Mona Louise Parsons stood out for her elegance and theatrical flair. But the life of this Wolfville native has always overshadowed her stage roles. From a Nova Scotian childhood, she...
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In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, she learns the truth about her father and meets Dr. Magdalena Schaefferová, whose family will become a significant part of her future.
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Auteur:Donaldson, AllanSommaire:Allan Donaldson grew up in Woodstock, N.B.. As a child, he became well acquainted with the street life of the town. In his teens, he worked summers wheeling cement, tamping ties and laying steel on the railway, working on a rock crusher...
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Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this novel explores the...
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aThe #1 New York Times bestselling author "known for her deeply heartfelt novels" (Woman's World) writes a sweeping World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers. In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland...
- Auteur:Tougias, Mike, Stanton, DougSommaire:
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean. They struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and hallucinations.
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Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has pieced...
- Auteur:Borowski, TadeuszSommaire:
In 1943, twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. This is the most complete collection of Borowski's major writings, brought together for the first time in English.
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Auteur:Blackmore, TimSommaire:Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to...
- Auteur:Heath, LorraineSommaire:
As the war intensifies, the girls of Flight City pour all their energy into training British pilots in their clandestine flight school. Lives from both sides of the Atlantic will be forever changed by love and loss.
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Auteur:Leighton, FrankSommaire:This is the story of a sensitive youth who grows up during the Great Depression in rural Britain. The reader shares the writer's traumatic experience of losing a mother at an early age, and is later exposed to the youthful influences...
- Auteur:Collins, Max AllanSommaire:
Fall 1942. At Amalgamated Aircraft, a young female worker has met with a suspicious accidental death. Fancy Anders confronts a saboteur, sniffs out an enemy, and prevents an assassination attempt on the President.
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Auteur:Carmichael, JodiSommaire:While on a family vacation, three cousins discover their Great-Grandad's memories and hidden messages throughout the streets of Paris.
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Private eye and WWII veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case involving Hollywood and mob-ridden Las Vegas.
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Ravaged by the Nazis, Romanian resistance forces ask Professor Van Helsing to raise from slumber the legendary Prince Dracula. When Hitler hears of this, he is seduced by the possibility of becoming immortal. Thus comes the ultimate...
- Auteur:Rader-Day, LoriSommaire:
Bridey Kelly has come to the holiday home of Agatha Christie to care for children evacuated from the Blitz. When a body washes ashore, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing.
- Auteur:Diliberto, GioiaSommaire:
Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France.
- Auteur:Frank, Elizabeth BalesSommaire:
"For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight-then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett...
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Auteur:Creedon, MarkSommaire:Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria. In April of 1944, their lives were forever altered when they were sent to a work camp in northeast Germany...
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