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We'll Meet Again by Lily Baxter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is April 1939 and unaware that the German war machine is advancing towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love... -
![Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami]()
Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
![The Revolt of Gunner Asch by Hans Hellmut Kirst]()
The Revolt of Gunner Asch by Hans Hellmut Kirst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket... -
![Hanging On by Dean Koontz]()
Hanging On by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all began when Major Kelly's Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived.Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there -- nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI's kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it .. -
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![Warenar by P.C. Hooft]()
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![The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat by Pierre Clostermann]()
The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat by Pierre Clostermann
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfire or Typhoon. Perhaps the most viscerally exciting book ever written by a fighter pilot.' Rowland White Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War... -
![First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum]()
First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century... -
![Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose]()
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the true story of a young American missionary woman's courage and triumph of faith in the jungles of New Guinea and her four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp. Never to see her husband again, she was forced to sign a confession to a crime she did not commit and face the executioner's sword, only to be miraculously spared... -
![Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully]()
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMany consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement... -
![Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris]()
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People 's top 10 books of 2021 • An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book of the year by NPR and TimeA magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges — some of the worst largely unknown until now — by the acclaimed author of... -
![Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent]()
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss, Evelyn Julia Kent
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid from the Nazis until they were betrayed and arrested in 1944. Eva was 15 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz - the same age as her friend Anne Frank... -
![Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland]()
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France by James Holland
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsD-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries... -
![The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee]()
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife... -
![The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard, Clint Howard]()
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard, Clint Howard
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron’s and Clint’s early careers and their wild adventures, but also a primer on so many topics—how an actor prepares, how to survive as a kid working in Hollywood, and how to be the best parents in the world! The Boys will surprise every reader with its humanity... -
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![The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager]()
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’s scientists to find a solution... -
![Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank by Nanette Blitz Konig]()
Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank by Nanette Blitz Konig
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of other Jews were imprisoned by the Nazi's with a minimum chance of survival. Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam... -
![Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik]()
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1939, on his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. Sam Pivnik survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months working on the processing ramp at Auschwitz, where prisoners were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing.After this harrowing experience, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp... -
![Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story by Danny Naten, R.J. Gifford]()
Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story by Danny Naten, R.J. Gifford
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when she and her family are swept up with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews and forcibly transported to one of the world's most infamous concentration Auschwitz-Birkenau... -
![Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia]()
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz... -
![Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings]()
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting... -
![After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss]()
After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated... -
![Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander]()
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers in World War II.In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others... -
![Между Азией и Европой. История Российского государства. От Ивана III до Бориса Годунова by Boris Akunin, Борис Акунин]()
Между Азией и Европой. История Российского государства. От Ивана III до Бориса Годунова by Boris Akunin, Борис Акунин
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВ этой книге оживают страницы отечественной истории XV–VI веков – как драматичные, ключевые события, так и небольшие эпизоды, о влиянии которых на ход истории порой мало кто задумывается. Охвачен период с момента освобождения Руси от иноземного владычества до великой Смуты – новой утраты независимости в результате внутреннего кризиса и вражеского вторжения... -
![Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie]()
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, Cabinet Ministers and well-wishers waiting at Heston airfield... -
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![Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes]()
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFeatured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein"Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources... -
![The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury]()
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNamed one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022The extraordinary true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm’s way In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany... -
![The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns]()
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced--and helped to win--the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost... -
![Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto by Leokadia Schmidt]()
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto by Leokadia Schmidt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the “Aryan” side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith’s shed... -
![For Those I Loved by Martin Gray]()
For Those I Loved by Martin Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George SantayanaWe need only to look back to Rwanda, and now to Darfur, to see that once again we are living the worst of times... -
![The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin]()
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last...
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