When Olwen Nia Evans learns that her family is moving from San Francisco to Wales to fulfill her great-grandmother’s dying wish, she starts having strange and vivid dreams about her family’s past. But nothing she sees in her dreams of...
World War (1939-1945)
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Stephen Metcalfe's spy network is dismantled by the Nazis. Stranded in the midst of war-torn Europe without a contact, orders, or a contingency plan, he is possibly the only hope for the dwindling remains of the free world
- Author:Baron, Aileen G.Summary:
War time Tangier, policed by Franco’s Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in...
- Author:Morris, HeatherSummary:
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov'an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
- Author:Griffin, W. E. B.Summary:
Summer 1943. Two of the Allies’ most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk—Operation Overlord’s invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project’s race to build the atomic...
- Author:Steinman, LouiseSummary:
Among her late parents' belongings, Steinman discovers a rusty ammo box holding almost five hundred letters written by her father during his service in World War II. It also contains a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu....
- Author:Flynn, RobertSummary:
World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, he bails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it grows less likely that a rescuer will ever come.
- Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:
Set in London and Cornwall from WWII to the present day, this is the story of the Keeling family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
- Author:Newton, AndieSummary:
Sisters. Traitors. Spies. When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands... The occupation has taken much from the...
- Author:Upjohn, RebeccaSummary:
Based on a true story. Milek and his brother, Munio, live in a sleepy village in Poland. Anton, an odd neighbour, speaks to animals, feeds the flies, and only eats vegetables, so most people call him the village fool. When the war...
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
For ages 8+. The heroine, Gabi, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. She describes her community before the Nazi occupation and the events that unfolded afterwards...
- Author:McKay, SinclairSummary:
A remarkable look at the day-to-day lives of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II.
- Author:Beevor, AntonySummary:
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific,...
- Author:Spring, DebbieSummary:
During World War II, Hendrik, the son of a fisherman, notices his Jewish friends being ostracized. When he realizes the danger that Hitler’s policies ultimately mean for his friends and their families, he hatches a plan to smuggle them...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.
- Author:Berest, AnneSummary:
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances, all need not be lost. At a decimated cavalry stable under the droning German bombers, Alexander is offered a...
- Author:Perrun, JodySummary:
When the Second World War broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth-largest city, home to strong class and ethnic divisions, and marked by a vibrant tradition of political protest. Citizens demonstrated their support for the war effort...
- Author:Calder, Marie DonaisSummary:
Johann doesn't know how to find the joy in life in Eddie's absence. His world is shrouded in sadness. There is only one place he can go to in order to find even a shred of comfort. But then the Polish return reigniting terror within him...
- Author:Calder, Marie DonaisSummary:
The Other Side Of Isolation is the fourteenth book in the Other Side series. Tempers are flaring at the Canadian barracks as time drags on overseas. The men are feeling isolated from their families and the world. They have very little...