Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II...
World War (1939-1945)
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Author:Watts, Irene N.Summary: -
Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
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Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were...
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Author:Rosnay, Tatiana deSummary:On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on...
- Author:Conroy, RobertSummary:
After a devastating encounter with Japanese submarines at the Battle of Midway, American naval forces are left in disarray as Japan dominates the Pacific, but a bold plan for ambushing the Japanese offers the hope of giving the...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for the Reeser family, led by matriarch Mari...
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Author:Simpson, CraigSummary: - Author:Renaud, Jean-BaptisteSummary:
Après avoir survécu, en compagnie de son ami, Luc-John, à diverses péripéties dans le premier tome des «Orphelins», Rémi s’enrôle dans l’armée canadienne, malgré son jeune âge, dans le but de retrouver Conrad, le trappeur. Commence...
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Author:Thomas, JoanSummary:Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads. Shortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and...
- Author:Brewster, EvaSummary:
An account of the two years Eva Brewster spent in Hitler's concentration camps.
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Author:Katie FlynnSummary: -
Author:Taylor, LynneSummary:Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass...
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Author:Blackwood, JessieSummary:Prequel to Life Begins at Forty Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return to...
- Author:Ollivier, EmileSummary:
Roman datmosphère et récit dun périple tragique, Passages cerne le drame des exilés haïtiens, dont la survie est la plupart du temps associée à la mort dêtres chers. Ode au courage et à la dignité, ce roman dÉmile Ollivier,...
- Author:Jackson, Jeffrey H.Summary:
A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read. Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground ;Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for...
- Author:Heaton, Colin D.Summary:
Occupation and Insurgency details German policies toward civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941–1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war. The results of these policies illustrate how an...
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Author:Lowry, LoisSummary:Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When...
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Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across...
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Author:Kahn, LeonSummary:Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler’s forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn...
- Author:Furst, AlanSummary:
Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD--the Soviet secret police--for special service in the Spanish civil war.
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