An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.
World War (1939-1945)
- Auteur:Hesse, KarenSommaire:
- Auteur:Macintyre, BenSommaire:
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into...
- Auteur:MORROW, ChristineSommaire:
An account of a journey across France in 1940-41.
- Auteur:Austin, Lynn N.Sommaire:
While their men fight on far-flung battlefields, America's women help produce what's necessary for victory. In a Michigan shipyard, four female co-workers forge strong bonds of friendship.
- Auteur:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSommaire:
Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with...
- Auteur:Schulman, FayeSommaire:
Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were soon lost in the horrors of...
- Auteur:Makos, Adam, Alexander, LarrySommaire:
In 1943 a twenty-one-year-old novice pilot found himself in the sights of an ace German fighter pilot. What happened between them would later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the true...
- Auteur:Isenberg, SheilaSommaire:
In 1940, Varian Fry, with only three thousand dollars and a list of names, went on a secret mission to Marseilles, to help those who had fled Nazi Germany and were now trapped in southern France. The list he took included most of the...
- Auteur:Lee, Chang-raeSommaire:
Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
- Auteur:Conant, JennetSommaire:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was once a...
- Auteur:Bruneau, CarolSommaire:
It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together-though they have little idea how to create such a life. Enman brings Una...
- Auteur:Murphy, BrianSommaire:
The untold story of Leon Crane, the only surviving crew member of a World War II B-24 crash on a remote mountain near the Arctic Circle, who managed to stay alive 81 days in sub-zero temperature by making peace with nature, and end his...
- Auteur:Kloeber, LeonardSommaire:
Colonel Kloeber uses his extensive experience from a 30-year career in the military and as a corporate executive to relate the lessons learned from military history to contemporary business and personal leadership.
- Auteur:Walker, RobynSommaire:
Sergeant Gander is a fascinating account of the Royal Rifles of Canadas canine mascot, and his devotion to duty demonstrated during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War. Armed only with his formidable size, an intimidating...
- Auteur:CLEARY, JonSommaire:
A novel of intrigue set in Berlin during the tense months prior to World War II. Cathleen O'Dea, an Irish American film star, uses her flirtatious relationship with Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, in a desperate...
- Auteur:WEST, MorrisSommaire:
The war was over ... But it was a time of armistice, not peace. In the winter of 1945, Austria was in a land without leaders and withoug hope. To men like Major Mark Hanlon, Occupation Commander in the snowbound Alps, fell the task of...