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2) King Rat
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wile to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household--her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist--build a theatre from the beast's skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history.
Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, bestselling
...Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
From massive aerial battles that clouded the skies with planes to deathly secret operations deep behind enemy lines, the events of World War II are some of the most awe-inspiring of all time. Discover legendary commanders, tremendous fights, elite soldiers, and courageous individuals whose deeds truly made the difference in this jaw-dropping guide to the biggest war the world has ever seen.
Series
Utah WW II stories volume 1
Publisher
KUED
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "Greatest Generation" recollect the difficult first months of the war. Includes interviews with Utah veterans who experienced Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, the Philippines, and the "Death march."
9) Italy at war
Author
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
207 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
11) Camp X
Author
Series
Camp X volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1943, and nearly-12-year-old George and his older brother Jack are spending a restless wartime summer in Whitby, Ontario, where their mom is working at a munitions plant while their dad is off fighting the Germans. One afternoon, the boys stumble across Canada's top-secret spy camp-and so begins an exciting and terrifying adventure as George and Jack get caught up in the covert activities of Camp X.
12) Auschwitz
Publisher
State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (VHS NTSC) (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Provides an historical account of the inhumane conditions at the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camps. Includes archival film footage and iconographic and museum materials from the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau that the Polish government estalished after the war.
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