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In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.
2) World War II
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Provides a concise history of World War II including information about the Holocaust, the code-breaking Enigma, and the deadly V2 rocket.
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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xxi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; in Soviet historical accounts, the war was prompted by the German invasion of June 1941; for the British and the French, the war was not taken seriously until the German forces penetrated French territory in May 1940. But for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939 when the Nazi army invaded Poland by land and by air, where they were soon joined by Stalin's...
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MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
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A comic, poignant story of WWII as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy. Bill is stuck at home with his mother, aunts and bratty sisters while epic battles are raging within earshot of his home.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life—her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in...
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
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When struggling Italian singer Antonio meets the wife of his wealthy new patron he recognises her instantly: it is Olivia, the captivating dance hostess he once encountered in the seedy Paradise Ballroom. Olivia is afraid that Antonio will betray the secrets of her past, but little by little they are drawn together, outsiders in a glittering world to which they do not belong. At last, with conflict looming across Europe, the attraction between them...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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406 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In 1939, British Colonel Noel Macrae, stationed in Berlin and witness to the rise of the Reich, decides that he might be the only Englishman with the opportunity to avert war. As he attempts to convince the British government of his mission, the colonel becomes torn between his government's orders and his own personal beliefs, especially as he falls in love with a German-Jewish woman. Blackmailed by the Nazis, the woman and her family have faced...
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
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224 p. ; cm.
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"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage."...
9) Coming home
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
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2 DVDs (ca. 202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination...
12) Lifeboat
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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When their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
13) The statement
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distribtued by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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An escaped Nazi collaborator is the target of an ambitious judge, a scrupulous colonel and two mysterious hit men.
14) Inside WWII
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2012
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Day by day. Hour by hour. Second by second. This is the story of last century's bloodiest conflict told in a concise and compelling 3 hour special. Includes personal accounts, strategic analysis and rare footage and provides a new and intimate perspective on the experience of war.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Wealthy, beautiful Naneé was born with a spirit of adventure. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naneé uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Photographer Edouard Moss has escaped Germany with his young...
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Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
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1 DVD (52 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This examination of one of the most important battles of WWII originally aired on the Discovery Channel. Studying the events in the Pacific in June of 1942, this documentary explains how the undermanned U.S. forces were able to eke out a victory over the Japanese Navy. Using interviews and archival footage, the film demonstrates how compiling a few secrets from breaking codes coupled with aggressive attacks based on vague intuition proved to be the...
18) Catch-22
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Depicts the struggles of a U.S. airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II base. This satirical, historical novel is set during the later stages of World War II from 1944 onwards. It has a distinctive non-chronological style where events are described from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.
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