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Schindler's list
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Thomas Keneally |
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profitee… |
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Schindler's ark
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Thomas Keneally |
"Keneally wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and learning that he was a n… |
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Subject India
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Henry Noel Brailsford |
On Indian culture. |
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Hiding from the Nazis
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David A. Adler |
The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis. |
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Their finest hour
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Winston S. Churchill |
One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany… |
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Jungle fighters
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Jules Archer |
An account of the military campaign in New Guinea during World War II, which the author viewed from several positions, including staff sergeant and war correspondent. |
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Fire in the hills
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Anna Myers |
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman. |
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Try to tell the story
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David Thomson |
From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and la… |
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Dead of winter
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Rennie Airth,Rennie Airth |
The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killerOn a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The … |
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Citizens of London
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Lynne Olson |
In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of how the… |
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Invasion of Russia
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R. Conrad Stein |
Traces the events of the German invasion of Russia in the summer and winter of 1941-1942. |
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Came a Cavalier
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Frances Parkinson Keyes |
*Came a Cavalier* is the story of Constance Galt, a beautiful girl who has great qualities of loyalty and loving-kindness, but whose outlook has been limited by a legacy of poverty and intolerance an… |
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Eyes of the emperor
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Graham Salisbury |
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II. |
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Bomb
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Steve Sheinkin |
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific rac… |
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His name was Raoul Wallenberg
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Louise Borden |
An amazing and inspirational World War II story about how one man saved the lives of many. |
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World War II (1939-1946)
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Salem Press |
This 2-volume resource contains 80 primary source documents that provide a compelling view of this unique period of American history. World War II is remembered not only for its violent encounters on… |
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Resistance; France 1940-1945
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Blake Ehrlich,Ehrlich, Blake 1917- |
Reconstructs Underground and Free French Army actions, intrigues and rivalries, from the fall of France on June 25, 1940 to the liberation of Paris in August, 1944. |
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Together We Cannot Fail
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Terry Golway |
This book is an uncommon portrait of Roosevelt's presidency, in words, photographs, and his own voice. For 12 tumultuous presidential years, Roosevelt regularly spoke to the American people, this man… |
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With wings like eagles
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Michael Korda |
From the Publisher: Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force-often no more tha… |
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Room in the heart
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Sonia Levitin |
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding v… |
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