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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day--April 30, 1945--and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin...
2) Munich
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
3) The taster
Author
Language
English
Description
Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship... In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty--working for the Reich or marrying...
4) Bad company
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the waning days of World War II, Adolf Hitler gives his journal to an aide for safekeeping. When it is discovered years later, it is found to contain explosive contents: the details of a clandestine meeting between F.D.R. and Hitler to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. It is up to White House and British operatives Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon to make sure that the document remains a secret.
6) Fatherland
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
338 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1936 and the Second World War is fast approaching. And this is no ordinary house, as Pierrot will soon discover. As he is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world -- a world of terror, secrets, and betrayal -- will Pierrot maintain his innocence? Or will he,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis' ruthless brutality, and he's determined to report the truth. Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich. Through the eyes...
Author
Series
Honor bound novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
13) Valkyrie
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
14) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save...
15) Escape
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the attempt on Hitler's life, the Hoffmanns must flee Berlin, but they have to leave Father behind at the mercy of the Gestapo.
17) The chaos loop
Author
Series
Throwback volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Corey Fletcher found out that he's the world's first "throwback," with the power to not only visit history, but change it, he's been spending as much time in the past as possible. Corey loves using his skills to fix problems and help his friends and family. But as Corey becomes more and more addicted to rewriting history, he learns that time travel might change him in ways he may never be able to reverse. Aware now that he can't keep going...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
[Large print].
Physical Desc
474 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Russian museum curator acquires a painting of a public building that includes a modification completed in 1952. The artist: Adolf Hitler. A prominent historian is mysteriously killed while in the final stages of research for his latest book- a biography of the fü hrer. An American architect preparing a book on Third Reich architecture discovers plans for a seventh bunker. All are pieces of an emerging puzzle whose solution...
19) Cave dwellers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counter-intelligence agency, brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.