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21) Rose under fire
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
22) Tailspin
Author
Publisher
Ten16 Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
Author
Language
English
Description
Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces. Most who fought overseas during World War II weren't prepared for capture, or for the life-altering experiences of incarceration, torture, and camaraderie bred of hardship that followed. Their harrowing story--often overlooked in Greatest Generation narratives--is told here by the POWs themselves. Long...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labor camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp--known as Auschwitz III--to witness firsthand the cruelty there.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
GN 680L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--
30) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The fictionalized account of a love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce Murray, a New Zealand soldier, discover love in the midst of a brutal war. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines...
31) The great escape
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xv, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves...
32) The wooden horse
Author
Pub. Date
1958
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
33) Hart's war
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
490 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 265 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An epic story of faith, hope, and love. Ray Whipps was an infantryman under General Patton in the trenches of Normandy, Paris, and Belgium; Betty was a field nurse in Cherbourg, France. Both strong Christians, the two bonded over their shared faith, and as Betty nursed Ray back to health after an injury, they fell in love and vowed to marry after the war. When Ray was captured by German forces and held in Stalag VII, Germany's largest prisoner of...
Author
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
How do you start a journey when the roads are blocked? Who can you trust in a country where the Nazi regime has only just fallen? 'This is the story of the liberation of four Dutch political prisoners at the end of World War II, and about their trek home to Holland. So, modestly, begins this firsthand account of the adventures of three women and one man in the hellish aftermath of the war in Europe. Awakened from the nightmare of prison camp, freed...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It's a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer...
39) Stalag 17
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of American G.I.'s in a German POW camp during World War II suspects the opportunistic Holden of being the spy in their midst.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxiii, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl, born into a family that had known wealth and privileges, was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.