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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
�2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (235 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enemy at the gates: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili�i Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin K�onig.
Uncommon valor: For over ten years, Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as 'missing in action' in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podg�orska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 254 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of John Basilone, a Medal of Honor recipient for his heroism at Guadalcanal who became one of the most famous and admired men in America before requesting to return to combat, and later died in action on Iwo Jima.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II: the sinking of the USS Arizona. For decades, it has been thought that the Arizona was sunk by a bomb dropped by a Japanese aircraft. But the discovery of a group of Japanese midget subs in and around Pearl Harbor has raised questions about the Arizona's final hours.
1549) Copenhagen
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama based on a pivotal meeting in 1941 between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.
1552) The skylark's secret
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper's daughter Flora's remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy's Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird's son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed. Decades later, Flora's daughter, singer Lexie Gordon, is forced to return to the village and...
1553) 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.
1554) An eagle in the snow
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
pages 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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the never-before-told story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.
1556) Saving Zasha
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
1557) The liberators
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history of the creation of the atom bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944. Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is partof The Manhattan Project, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and...
1559) World War II
Publisher
in association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. : b&w ill., col. ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lingering resentments from the First World War, economic unease, and the sweeping racist agenda of Germany’s Nazi Party are just some of the many factors that shaped the trajectory of the Second World War. This far-reaching volume examines the major battles, events, and agreements of World War II, the Final Solution, and the legacy of the war from political and diplomatic angles. Readers will learn how European imperialism, American isolationism,...
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