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The winter fortress : the epic mission to sabotage Hitler's atomic bomb / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-365) and index.Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vermork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of the heavy water needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of spies and commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions.
Subjects: Atomic bomb; Sabotage; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The moth and the mountain : a true story of love, war and Everest / by Caesar, Ed,author.;
From New Yorker writer Ed Caesar, 'The Moth and the Mountain' is a sweeping true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure: flying his biplane five thousand miles across the world and attempting to become the first person to summit Mt. Everest.
Subjects: Biographies.; Wilson, Maurice, 1898-1934.; Mountaineers; Air pilots; Mountaineering;
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Torn apart : the internment diary of Mary Kobayashi / by Aihoshi, Susan M.;
The diary of twelve-year-old Mary Kobayashi, a Japanese Canadian girl living in British Columbia, describing her experiences during World War II, including her family's relocation to an internment camp.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Diary fiction.; Japanese Canadians; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Canadians;
© c2012., Scholastic Canada,
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Code talker / by Nez, Chester,author.; Avila, Judith Schiess,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original twenty-nine code talkers, discusses his life growing up in the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo reservation, and shares the story of how he helped the United States develop and implement a secret military language based on his native language during World War II that became the only unbroken code in modern warfare.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Nez, Chester.; United States. Marine Corps; Marines; Navajo code talkers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Navajo; World War, 1939-1945;
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Camp Z : the secret life of Rudolf Hess / by McGinty, Stephen.; Stafford, David.;
Subjects: Hess, Rudolf, 1894-1987.; Nazis; War criminals; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2011., HarperCollins,
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Our American friend : a novel / by Pitoniak, Anna,author.;
"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
Subjects: Political ficition.; Spy ficition.; Thrillers (Fiction); Cold War; Presidents' spouses; Spies;
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The brothers of Auschwitz / by Adler, Malka,1946-author.; Canin, Noel,translator.; translation of:Adler, Malka,1946-Its'o u-Bernard.English.;
"Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz. Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend who will never let their stories be forgotten."--Cover flap.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Brothers; Jewish families;
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Lord of the flies [sound recording] / by Golding, William,1911-1993.;
Read by the author.Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Allegories.; Children's audiobooks.; Good and evil; Leadership; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.;
© p2002., Listening Library,
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World War I: The "Great War". by Gabriel, Vejas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Vejas Gabriel LiuleviciusOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2006.From August 1914 to November 1918, an unprecedented catastrophe gripped the world that continues to reverberate into our own time. World War I was the first conflict in which entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, investing all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Social sciences.; Military history..; History, Modern.; Education.; Instructional films.; History.; World War, 1914-1918.; Europe--History.;
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The big break : the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told / by Dando-Collins, Stephen.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Oflag 64 (Concentration camp); United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; Americans; Soldiers;
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