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The little liar : a novel / by Albom, Mitch,1958-author.;
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading "north," where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Brothers; Families; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Survival; Truthfulness and falsehood; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The little liar [text (large print)] : a novel / by Albom, Mitch,1958-author.;
Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading "north," where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved--and all the others--to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Brothers; Families; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Survival; Truthfulness and falsehood; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The orphan's tale / by Jenoff, Pam,author.;
Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Circus; Teenage mothers; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One woman's war [text (large print)] : a novel of the real Miss Moneypenny / by Wells, Christine,author.;
World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans he requests the newlywed Paddy's help. She jumps at the chance to work as an agent in the field, even after the operation begins to affect her marriage. But could doing her duty for King and country come at too great a cost? Socialite Friedl Sṯttinger is a beautiful Austrian double agent determined to survive in wartime England, which means working for MI-5, investigating fifth column activity among the British elite at parties and nightclubs. But Friedl has a secret--some years before, she agreed to work for German Intelligence and spy on the British. When her handler at MI-5 proposes that she work with Serbian agent, Dusko Popov, Friedl falls hopelessly in love with the dashing spy. And when her intelligence work becomes fraught with danger, she must choose whether to remain loyal to the British and risk torture and execution by the Nazis, or betray thousands of men to their deaths. Soon, the lives of these two extraordinarily brave women will collide, as each travels down a road of deception and danger leading to one of the greatest battles of World War II.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Espionage; Women spies; Women spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II / by Kershaw, Alex,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II-all Medal of Honor recipients-from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress. As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be-and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 30th (1901-1957); Medal of Honor; Soldiers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women of World War 2 [videorecording] : the untold stories / by Bowen-Ziechek, Michelle,television producer,screenwriter.; Brown, Eli(Film director),television producer,television director,screenwriter.; Burst Films (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
"American women were the secret weapon that won World War II, and in the process, changed the world. In this new documentary, hear directly from the women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front, cracked codes and broke barriers. History comes alive in the film with newly-rediscovered interviews and archival materials: from the WASPs who risked their lives flying planes for target practice to the Japanese American women who braved incarceration camps; from America's most decorated female spy to the African American 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion that secured victory over the Axis and battled Jim Crow." --container.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; War television programs.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Sex role; Women soldiers; Women;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Our darkest night : a novel of Italy and the Second World War / by Robson, Jennifer,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Hiding from the Nazis in the guise of a Christian farmer's wife, a Jewish woman is met with suspicion by a Nazi official who harbors a vendetta against the former seminary student posing as her husband.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Jewish women; Jews; World War, 1939-1945; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Mirror of our sorrows / by Lemaitre, Pierre,author.; Wynne, Frank,translator.;
In this final entry of the 'Paris Between-the-Wars' trilogy set in 1940, Louise Belmont runs naked down the boulevard du Montparnasse. To understand the traumatic scene she has just witnessed, she will have to plunge headlong into the madness of the Phoney War, as France, seized by the panic of a new European conflict, descends into chaos.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rush to danger : medics in the line of fire / by Barris, Ted,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this unique front-line recounting of the experiences of stretcher bearers, medical corpsmen, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists and ambulance drivers, Barris explores the evolution of battlefield medicine at such historic engagements as Fredericksburg, Batoche, the Ypres Salient, the Somme, Vimy, Singapore, Dieppe, Normandy, Falaise, Bastogne, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. Barris's sources reveal--like never before--why men and women sporting the red cross on their helmets or sleeves didn't flee to safety but chose instead to rush to assist.".
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; War;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Prime Minister's Secret Agent / by MacNeal, Susan Elia,author.;
"Maggie Hope has returned from her undercover mission in Berlin with scars not just on her body but on her soul. Instead of going on another Special Operations assignment in war-torn Europe, she returns to one of her old spy training camps in western Scotland, this time as a teacher. But instead of the tedium Maggie is expecting, she's drawn against her will into another web of danger, this time involving a terrifying biological weapon secretly developed and stockpiled by Churchill for the anticipated Nazi invasion. Maggie's failure to solve a series of deadly poisonings could endanger the lives of the entire British civilian population--but what will be the cost of success?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Undercover operations; Women spies; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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