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Publisher
Legacy/Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
cp2007
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from radio broadcasts from major events of World War II, including speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Charles de Gualle, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Harry S Truman and others.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, this books tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way; a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food, a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The truth was that he had sneaked back to hide in a secret crawl...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Manstein was one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces and one of the best military strategists of the entire war. This book provides a full portrait of Manstein including his campaigns and an analysis of what kept him involved with Hitler's cause.
11) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
World War II. In an enormous forest a woodcutter and his wife find it difficult to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a baby girl wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring...
15) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
16) Brodeck: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When a stranger with unusual manners is murdered for his unflattering and insightful illustrations, a government report writer and concentration camp survivor writes an official, whitewashed account of the incident while secretly penning the truth in a parallel narrative.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Therese Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
18) Defiance
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occupying Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests to undertake the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of Polish Jews fleeing from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery, must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Jean Guéhenno's [diary] ... is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called 'a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice' ... Here, David Ball provides not only the first English translation of this important historical document, but also the first ever annotated, corrected edition"--...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger....
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