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381) The angry hills
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife's inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave before German troops invade, Morrison's plans are derailed when he receives a letter listing the names of Greek patriots pretending to be German collaborators, a list Nazi strategists desperately need. With the outcome of the war hinging on Morrison's ability to protect the letter, he...
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The three-act play and the hitherto uncollected stories contained in this book represent the first literary fruits of the active months (1937-1939) Ernest Hemingway spent in Spain covering the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and helping to film battle scenes for the motion picture The Spanish Earth. He conveys the feverish life in Madrid under siege: the daily horrors of the Rebel bombardment, the incongruous...
383) The measure of gold
Author
Publisher
Ashland Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"No magic is more powerful or dangerous than the spell of love. It is 1940, and Germany has just invaded France. Across the ocean, in Sweetwater, Tennessee, Penelope, a beautiful alchemist, receives a letter from her childhood friend, Naomie, urging her to France. Bereft from the loss of her widowed father, Penelope leaves her life and travels to German-occupied Paris. There, she meets Naomie's brother, the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli and his mysterious...
384) The prisoner's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore's story special is what happened in World War II's closing days and the people, and horses, he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Simon & Schuster Canada export edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war in this powerful love story from the #1 bestselling author of The Forgotten Home Child."--
388) Rebellion
Author
Series
Roman Legion volume 22
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
398 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
AD 60. Britannia is in turmoil. The rebel leader Boudica has tasted victory, against a force of tough veterans in Camulodunum. Alerted to the rapidly spreading uprising, Governor Suetonius leads his army towards endangered Londinium with a mounted escort, led by Prefect Cato. Soon it's terrifyingly clear that Britannia is slipping into chaos and panic, with ever more tribal warriors swelling Boudica's ranks. And Cato and Suetonius are grimly aware...
Author
Series
Bliven Putnam naval adventure volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this third volume of the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure series, Captain Putnam returns, venturing into the Pacific to fight pirates in Malaya and match wits with the royals in Hawaii.
390) Tears of amber
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia's borders vanish beneath them, they leave their farm and all they know behind for an uncertain future. But Ilse also has Janusz, her family's young Polish servant, by her side. As they flee from the Soviet army, his enchanting...
392) Along the Broken Bay
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture--or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes...
394) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive.--
395) Stella
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
None
Description
"In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the beautiful model, Kristin, who soon becomes his energetic yet enigmatic guide to the bustling and cosmopolitan city, escorting him to underground jazz clubs where they drink cognac, dance, and kiss. The war feels far away to Friedrich, who falls in love with Kristin...
396) To the eastern seas
Author
Series
Kydd sea adventures volume 22
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Bonaparte held to a stalemate in Europe, the race to empire is now resumed. Britain's ambitions turn to the Spice Islands, the Dutch East Indies, where Admiral Pellew has been sent to confront the enemy's vastly rich holdings in these tropical islands. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd joins reinforcements to snatch these for the British Crown. The two colonial masters of India and the East Indies face each other in mortal striving for the region - there...
397) Atenska vrata
Author
Series
Athenian volume 1
Publisher
Učila
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1, izd.
Physical Desc
400 pages : maps ; 19 cm
Language
Slovenian
Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon ... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
399) Rip to the rescue
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school and by his father, thirteen-year-old Jack, a messenger boy during the London Blitz, becomes a hero after meeting a stray dog that can smell people buried beneath rubble.
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
16 audio discs (18 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton...and these are their stories. A novel in seven parts, overlapping stories of warriors and peacemakers, queens and slaves, Romans and Britons who cross paths during Boudica's epic...
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