The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her...
World War (1939-1945)
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Author:French, JackieSummary: -
Author:Carius, OttoSummary:World War II began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the twentieth century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous...
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Author:HARRY, LilianSummary:Among the 'little ships' setting off for Dunkirk are three very different vessels. There is a London fireboat manned by Olly Mears and his crew, a pleasure steamer from Devon commanded by Able-Seaman Robby Endacott, and a...
- Author:Keith, Anges NewtonSummary:
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately...
- Author:BRUNE, PeterSummary:
The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore. This is the story of the Kokoda Campaign, portrayed through the eyes of the Australian soldiers who fought the battle.
- Author:Singleton, ElyseSummary:
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women's Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover...
- Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:
The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin...
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Author:Scoppettone, SandraSummary:Meet Faye Quick, a sassy secretary who keeps the home fires burning by reluctantly becoming a private investigator after her boss and agency owner, Woody Mason, joins the army. True to her name, Faye catches on quick, and is especially...
- Author:FADDEN, ArthurSummary:
Autobiography of a colourful Australian Prime Minister and Treasurer in the middle decades of this century.
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up...
- Author:Wouk, HermanSummary:
A Masterpiece of Historical Fiction-The Great Novel of America's "Greatest Generation" Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning...
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration" (People...
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Author:Sands Brodoff, AmiSummary:A family’s story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the serenity of a small New Jersey town, and in the memory of Jana – a woman finally asked to bear witness. Far...
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Author:Furnivall, KateSummary:"Malaya, 1941. Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint. She is among the fortunate after all-the British rubber plantation owners reaping the benefits of the colonial life. But Connie feels as...
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Author:Kaan, MichaelSummary:Shortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for Fiction. The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence...
- Author:Bradley, Kimberly BrubakerSummary:
*2016 Newbery Honor book
*Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book AwardThis New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2. For fans of Counting by 7s....
- Author:Hatcher, Robin LeeSummary:
Margo King fears for her son fighting on the North African front and tries to hide her painful past. Dotty King searches for forgiveness from her mother and God after committing a single ardent mistake. Lucy Anderson struggles to resist...
- Author:Schaffer, Paul, Veil, SimoneSummary:
The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil. The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:In a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws restricted the freedom of Jewish people during WWII. A small plot of land by the river was allocated to the village’s Jewish youth, and it was here that some brave young people decided to...
- Author:Ryan, JenniferSummary:
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies'...
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